LinkedIn Breach Reveals Depressing Password Choices
About 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords were breached yesterday. While the company was quick to issue the announcement and urge users to change their passwords, the incident still created quite a bit of fallout once the most common leaked password choices were revealed. In 2011, SplashData noted that the most popular online passwords across the web […]
10-Year Treasury Hits Record Low
Holy cow. Did you see the news this morning? The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the US 10-Year Treasury yield has hit a record low of 1.641 percent. This is mostly due to the European debt crisis that is being fueled by the financial strain in Greece and Spain. While the Treasury may be influenced by factors […]
5 Things We Learned at ICSC
Our time at ICSC may have been brief, but boy was it fruitful. In addition to hosting a live webinar, we picked up a few tidbits that may help you get deals done in the year(s) to come. Hopefully your time and ICSC was just as successful. See you next year! 1. Credit is now more […]
Business Lessons From a Young Mark Zuckerberg
CNBC recently compiled some quotes Mark Zuckerberg gave to the Harvard Crimson in the early days of Facebook – or, as it was called back then, The Facebook. While this CEO’s rise to fame has been chronicled heavily in print and in movies like The Social Network, the quotes reveal a less confident, more humble side of this Internet […]
Top Tips for Young Entrepreneurs
Being a supplier of property and building owner information, this blog normally focuses exclusively on the commercial real estate market. However, we’ve also come to realize that many of you, like us, start out on your own as young entrepreneurs. Maybe you worked for a big firm and didn’t like it. Maybe you prefer to […]
Commercial Construction Spending Rises
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) has released its latest research regarding real estate construction. Its stats show some promising results. According to NAR: Commercial Construction spending was only up 0.1% in March – but this is a 6% gain over last year Private commercial building construction rose by 0.7% in March, with office buildings performing very […]