Sandy Miller Contributor Sandy Miller is a general partner at IVP. He co-founded investment bank Thomas Weisel Partners and served as a senior partner at Montgomery Securities. More posts by this contributor The drought is over… a torrent of tech IPOs is expected in 2017 Lower The Wall, Lift The …

Business Insider/Mary Hanbury People love shopping at TJ Maxx for the “treasure-hunt” experience it offers. Its sister store, HomeGoods, offers a similar kind of experience.  TJX Companies’ homeware business accounts for 30% of its sales overall. Its homeware offering in the United States is spread across three stores: HomeGoods, TJ Maxx, …

Penn Medicine A lot of how the brain controls our impulses remains a mystery. But there are some areas, such as the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which have been linked to antisocial behaviour. Scientists have shown stimulating this area to boost its activity could reduce people’s violent tendencies. In other words, …

Trov, the on-demand personal property insurance service, is launching in the U.S., the company announced today. Trov’s first port of call in the U.S. will be Arizona. The service is already available in the U.K. and Australia, where customers have signed up to insure items 1 million times since the …

Sarah Jacobs A viral video shows a man throwing a drink in the face of a teenager and stealing his “Make America Great Again” hat at a Whataburger in San Antonio, Texas.  “We were shocked to see this video and certainly don’t condone this type of customer behavior in our …

Facebook has vowed in recent months to beef up human editors and problem-spotting AI as it addresses election meddling and abuse of the platform.  Read more: cnbc.com

Production for the Model 3 — Tesla’s long-anticipated electric vehicle targeted towards the mass-market buyer — has been a major topic of conversation ever since the car was unveiled in May 2016.  Tesla faced multiple bottlenecks in production early on as demand for the vehicles exploded almost immediately. Elon Musk …

Drew Angerer/Getty Images The BBC’s “Panorama” documentary has investigated how tech giants like Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat get their users hooked. The show spoke to Silicon Valley insiders who claim that social media companies deliberately engineer their platforms to be addictive. Facebook said it is working with third parties to …

Shannon Stapleton/Reuters A former federal prosecutor explained why it would be “stupid” for President Donald Trump to pardon his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen. Cohen split with the president in an interview with ABC News, breaking his silence on the criminal investigation he’s at the center of. The interview fueled speculation …

The congresswoman did not call for an illegal immigrant to be appointed to the Supreme Court. Read more: huffingtonpost.com