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Tim Ferriss is writing a new book about reader success stories based on his book *The 4-Hour Workweek* and is launching a competition with Shopify.

via The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss.

Canadian tycoon Michael DeGroote poured $100 million into building a Dominican Republic casino complex, partnering with some questionable individuals along the way. via longform.org

Dataquest is a project-based learning program teaching data science skills, focusing on Python, SQL, R, and more. via Dataquest.

Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight uses Google Maps data to compare travel times to and from US airports by car and public transit.

via FiveThirtyEight.

Inspiring Slideshare presentations for marketers, with tips on creating engaging PowerPoint presentations that resonate with your audience. via Blog.HubSpot.com

eBay is splitting with PayPal and laying off 7% of its workforce, mainly from its struggling online auction site. via Quartz

PSFK offers an AI-powered dashboard for trend analysis, providing insights on innovation across industries, retailers, and technologies through research reports, case studies, expert quotes, and video content. via PSFK

Facebook appears to be moving away from its ad exchange platform, FBX, and towards smartphone identification for ad retargeting. via Digiday

PSFK offers an AI-powered dashboard for trend analysis, providing insights on innovation across industries.

This article examines how eBay uses social media platforms like Tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram for marketing.

This blog post from HubSpot shares 32 free advertising tips for businesses of all sizes.

Persado, an AI-powered marketing platform, raised $21 million to scale its technology that generates persuasive language for marketing materials. via VentureBeat