The Wearables Market Will Be Huge, Assuming It Can Overcome Pricing Hurdles
Wearables are one of the most exciting new entrants to the consumer electronics market — and also the devices generating a good dose of skepticism.There are an assortment of new gadgets labeled as...
View ArticleLionel Messi Accepted A Big Soccer Award While Wearing A Flower Suit
Lionel Messi was presented with the Golden Boot trophy, given to Europe's leading scorer. It was the third Golden Boot for Messi in four years, after scoring 46 goals for Barcelona last season.Messi...
View ArticleSmart Credit Cards May Slow Adoption Of Mobile Payments
Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today.What Coin...
View ArticlePeople Are Furious That Salesforce Gave These Two Programmers $1 Million (CRM)
Two developers who won a massive $1 million prize from a contest held by Salesforce.com have been accused of breaking the rules of the contest.The prize was the biggest ever for a hackathon, which is...
View Article10 Etiquette Rules For Meetings That Every Professional Should Know
Even if you dread them, meetings put you in front of coworkers and bosses who you may not work with on a regular basis. That means how you conduct yourself in them may leave a lasting impression.Is it...
View ArticleMichael Vick Says Nick Foles Should Remain The Starter For The Eagles
Michael Vick gave high praise to his quarterback counterpart Nick Foles in an interview with Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, saying that the Eagles should continue to start Foles. Vick said:“In all...
View ArticleIf The Cops Pull You Over, These Are Your Rights
When we heard about a New Mexico man's nightmarish traffic stop, we wondered what rights you actually have when you get pulled over.We talked to Martin Kron, a New York traffic attorney and former...
View ArticleWhy Employees Love Working For Costco
Wholesale retailer Costco has the most satisfied employees, according to the 2013 Retail Report Card generated by Glassdoor.com, an online job review forum."Costco really values their full time, but...
View ArticleWhy Dumping Wes Welker Was A Colossal Miscalculation For Bill Belichick
Bill Belichick's decision to let Wes Welker leave and replace him with the younger Danny Amendola was one of the most interesting personnel moves of the offseason.Since Belichick is such a genius...
View ArticleVANGUARD: Investor Behavior Is The Same As It Ever Was
FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors.Investor Behavior Is The Same As It Ever Was (Vanguard Advisors Blog)The...
View ArticleREPORTS: Katie Couric Is Leaving ABC For Yahoo After Being Personally Wooed...
Katie Couric is leaving ABC News for Yahoo after being personally wooed by Marissa Mayer, according to The Hollywood Reporter.Couric joined ABC News less than three years ago, taking a $40 million deal...
View ArticleInside The Spy Plane That Was At The Center Of Kennedy's Cuban Missile Crisis
At the time of the Cold War, Russia had nothing that could shoot the U2 out of the sky. Even their MiG jets had a ceiling 10,000 feet below the U2's gliding altitude.One pilot said they'd buzz around...
View ArticleAn Australian McDonald's Has Been Blasting Opera Music To Drive Away Teen...
A McDonald's restaurant in Australia is using opera music to repel loitering teens.The fast-food restaurant in Mount Annan, Sydney has been blasting opera and classical tunes on outside speakers during...
View ArticleWe Played The Xbox One And PlayStation 4 — Here's Which One We Liked Better
Click for sound:Please enable Javascript to watch this videoWe have the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One— the two next-gen consoles that everyone will be clamoring over this holiday season.So, which one...
View ArticleFacebook Ad Performance Is Up, But Direct Response Marketers Haven't Caught On
The performance of Facebook ads improved significantly over the past year, according to a study from Adobe that looked at 130 billion ad impressions and 400 million unique visitors on the social...
View ArticleTyson Foods Drops Pig Farm Over Video Of Alleged Animal Abuse
Tyson Foods has dropped its contract with an Oklahoma hog farm after an animal rights group said it videotaped alleged abuse at the farm.The graphic video, which activist group Mercy For Animals posted...
View ArticleAmazon, eBay, And Wal-Mart — The Big Three In Mobile Retail, And What They're...
KEY POINTSMobile has played a huge role in cementing the dominance of what we're describing in this report as the Big Three e-commerce retailers, Amazon, eBay and Wal-Mart. Mobile-only users account...
View ArticleHow Marissa Mayer Once Convinced This Exec To Work At Google
While finishing up her studies at Stanford, Jess Lee, now the CEO of fashion website Polyvore, received an engineering offer at Intuit that she was planning on taking.That is, before she got a call...
View ArticlePrince Harry Lands In Antarctica For Trek To The South Pole
Britain's Prince Harry arrived in Antarctica on Friday ahead of a gruelling trek to the South Pole with injured troops.The 29-year-old royal landed at Novo airbase, near the coast of the frozen...
View ArticleNokia, Once The World's Biggest Mobile-Phone Maker, Is Planning The Next...
SAMULI SIMOJOKI knew the outcome was a formality, but he still wanted his say, “not so much as a Nokia shareholder, but as a Finn.” Mr Simojoki, a lawyer from Helsinki, was one of the 3,200 who...
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