How to decide when to start receiving Social Security benefits and other top stories.

• How to decide when to start receiving Social Security benefits

  

  Should I start receiving Social Security benefits at 62 or wait a few years? How does my decision affect my spouse’s benefits?Every day tens of thousands of people are making decisions about when they’ll start receiving Social Security, but many people don’t know what options are available to maximize their benefits. Here are some guidelines to help you decide when to start receiving benefits.Benefits of delayingAlthough you can start receiving benefits at 62, it typically makes the most sense..

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• UPS tests drones for deliveries

  

  MARBLEHEAD, Mass. — One of the world’s largest package delivery companies is stepping up efforts to integrate drones into its system. UPS has partnered with robot-maker CyPhy Works to test the use of drones to make commercial deliveries to remote or difficult-to-access locations. The companies began testing the drones Thursday, when they launched one from the seaside town of Marblehead. The drone flew on a programmed route for 3 miles over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver an inhaler at Children’s ..

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• Twitter needs to sell now or risk becoming another Yahoo

  

  Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang, center, around the time of the Microsoft talks in 2008. REUTERS/Rick Wilking Twitter, which was once a darling of the tech industry and went public almost three years ago in an eye-popping IPO, appears to be up for sale. We've seen this story with an internet company before. In fact, the parallels between Twitter and Yahoo are rather striking: A rotating cast of CEOs and executives with little direction; a powerful platform once s..

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• Airbnb Raises $555 Million In New Funding Led By Google Capital

  

  Airbnb has raised $555 million during a funding round, documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) show. In August, rumors surfaced about the company filing official documents with the State of Delaware, which revealed Airbnb's aim to attract more late-stage capital. The Form D filed on Sept. 23 backs the story, but insiders familiar with the matter are pointing out that Airbnb is far from closing the round. According to sources, the company might push the ceiling to a fig..

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• Trump to Fossil Fuel Execs: 'You Will Like Me So Much'

  

  The same day as a new report highlighted the carbon emissions calamity that would accompany new fossil fuel extraction, Donald Trump promised an audience of fossil fuel executives that is the very agenda he would pursue if elected to the White House. “Oh, you will like me so much,” the Republican presidential candidate said in his address to the Shale Insight conference in Pittsburgh on Thursday. He promised to lift regulations, open up more federal lands for fossil fuel extraction—including co..

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• Goldman Sachs to axe 30% of Asia investment bankers

  

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• How immigration helps the US economy: Report

  

  Contrary to popular belief, immigration has benefited the US economy and had little effect on the overall wage gap and job market, according to a report by the The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.The report updates a 1997 document that detailed the fiscal effects of the 40 million immigrants on the US economy and labor market. The update comes at a time when immigration has come to the forefront of political thought and has become a decisive issue in the presidential el..

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