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How People Underestimate Spending in Retirement

How People Underestimate Spending in Retirement

When told they will need 70% of their pre-retirement income, people don’t think about the 30% they’re losing—until it’s too late.

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Innovation Sputters as a Chinese Engine

Innovation Sputters as a Chinese Engine

Columnist Li Yuan writes that some incubators and shared-office spaces for startups in the country are largely empty and at risk of closing.

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Incentives to Install Solar Panels Are Shrinking

Incentives to Install Solar Panels Are Shrinking

The future has turned cloudy for the solar industry. A dozen states may cut rebates paid to homeowners who install solar panels for electricity usage. The Wall Street Journal's Cassandra Sweet has the details.

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Line’s Messaging App Aims to Hold Ground

Line’s Messaging App Aims to Hold Ground

A host of new services announced by Line Corp., which operates Japan’s dominant smartphone messaging application, reflect the company’s efforts to hold its ground against bigger players like Facebook.

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Pinterest Pins Hopes on International Audience

Pinterest Pins Hopes on International Audience

Pinterest, the six-year-old image-discovery website, had underestimated the diversity of user tastes overseas so it is working to make the site decidedly less American in an effort to build its audience.

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IPhone SE Review: Smaller Gets Smarter

IPhone SE Review: Smaller Gets Smarter

Apple’s powerful new 4-inch iPhone SE has the size and battery performance that many have been waiting for. WSJ's Geoffrey A. Fowler shows how smaller can be better. Photo/Video: Emily Prapuolenis/The Wall Street Journal

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What’s More Eco-Friendly: Going to the Mall or Shopping Online?

What’s More Eco-Friendly: Going to the Mall or Shopping Online?

Could going to the mall be better for the environment than shopping online? That’s the claim in a new report by Simon Property Group, but other studies have found that shoppers can often reduce their environmental impact by shopping online.

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Apple Fight Sets Off Race Among Hackers

Apple Fight Sets Off Race Among Hackers

Companies and freelance hackers have been working furiously to find a way into the iPhone 5C used by terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook.

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Document Storage: Paper vs. Digital

Document Storage: Paper vs. Digital

How to sort and store personal records in several different media.

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Habits of Highly Productive People

Habits of Highly Productive People

Amy Dockser Marcus reviews “Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business” by Charles Duhigg.

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Uber-Ola Rivalry Takes Nasty Turn in India

Uber-Ola Rivalry Takes Nasty Turn in India

An already-bitter battle between Uber and its main local competitor for dominance of the Indian market has hit a new level of ferocity, with Uber accusing its local competitor of using fake accounts to place spurious orders.

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Shockwave of Exploding Star Seen for First Time

Shockwave of Exploding Star Seen for First Time

1.2 billion years away from earth, NASA’s Kepler space telescope has managed to capture a spectacle never seen before by humans on camera: the brilliant flash of an exploding star’s shockwave. WSJ's Monika Auger reports. Photo: Credit: NASA Ames, STScI/G. Bacon

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Sony’s Game Plan Goes Mobile

Sony’s Game Plan Goes Mobile

Sony said it would start making games for smartphones including Apple’s iPhones and Android phones, following rival Nintendo’s move into the fast-growing market.

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Survey Shows Equal Gender Pay in Amazon Workforce

Survey Shows Equal Gender Pay in Amazon Workforce

Amazon.com, under pressure to release details of gender pay equality, said it found that among its U.S. workforce, women and men earn essentially the same.

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