Melissa Thompson

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Melissa Thompson writes about a wide range of topics, revealing interesting things we didn't know before. She is a freelance USA Today producer, and a Technorati contributor.

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Corporate Resolutions Explains The Importance Of Executive Background Checks

The need to hire high-quality executives is essential to the growth and expansion of any business entity. Leadership qualities are passed from the top...

How to Start a Business in the Netherlands as a Foreign Investor

Europe remains one of the most important destinations for foreigners who want to do business in a country which offers them access to a...

Investments To Consider With Excess Monthly Income

The goal of many people planning for their retirement and looking to build a nest egg is to maximize their income potential. Putting excess...

Traveling with Kids: Keeping Everyone Happy

Traveling with kids is difficult. Some kids are great, and they seem to be well beyond their years. But then there are other kids...

Artificial Intelligence and a Clash of Generations

Artificial Intelligence often gets a bad rap in terms of the economy as it is accused of stealing away jobs from people. One study...

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How Buy Now, Pay Later Debt Changes Your Bankruptcy Decisions

Does buy now, pay later debt count when you're deciding whether to file for bankruptcy? More and more, yes, even when the balance never touched your credit report. Split-pay loans from apps like Klarna, Afterpay, Affirm, and Zip have become

The Debt Collector’s AI Voice Agent: How Synthetic-Voice Dunning Calls Are Colliding With Decades-Old Consumer Protection Rules

Most consumers assume the friendly voice on a collection call belongs to a person following a script. It is often a script following a person. A synthetic voice, cloned or generated by an AI agent, working a call list on behalf of a collect

The Black Box in the Crossover: What Vehicle Event Data Recorders Capture in the Seconds Before a Fatal Pedestrian Crash

A pedestrian killed by a crossover has, on average, about 20 seconds of the driver's inputs sitting inside the car that hit them. Throttle position. Brake pressure. Steering angle. Whether the seat belt was buckled and whether stability con

When the CFO Leaves: How Growing Companies Keep the Books on Track

Most owners assume a CFO exit is mainly an HR headache. Post the job, run the search, backfill the seat. The seat is the easy part. What breaks first is the reporting cadence: the month-end close nobody owns, the covenant calculation that u
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