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'Quant' Hedge Funds: Computer Says No

Hedge funds looking to spot and ride market trends are hoping for a fresh startIF SOMETHING has not worked for five years, most people would conclude that it was broken. Tell that to the geeks managing...

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Check Out The Amazing Moment Diver Finds A Man Alive In 3-Day Old Sunk Ship

Certainly the divers charged with recovering the bodies of sailors lost in a 3-day old shipwreck never expected to find a man alive.The Jascon 4 tug had been guiding a Chevron oil tanker off the...

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Republicans Had Better Get Comfortable With 'Happy Holidays'

Only 42% of Asian Americans are Christians. Only 24% of Asian American voters supported Mitt Romney in 2012.So maybe Republicans, who are currently seeking ways to expand their non-white voter base,...

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These Two Simple Steps Can Help Financial Advisors Spot A Fraud

FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors.How Advisors Can Spot A Fraud (The Wall Street Journal)It is important for...

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MORGAN STANLEY: Retailers That Opened Early On Thanksgiving Had Crappy Black...

Retailers opened more stores than ever on Thanksgiving Day this year in an effort to boost holiday sales and give customers more time to take advantage of Black Friday deals. But the earlier openings...

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Big Data Will Drive The Next Phase Of Innovation In Mobile Computing

The world is awash in data.CIBC, a Canadian bank, predicts that information-generation growth will increase 50 times over the next decade. IDC, a market research firm, similarly forecasts a 44-fold...

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Salesforce.com Apologizes For Hackathon Snafu By Giving Another $1 Million...

Last week, Salesforce.com set off an uproar in the developer community when it made a decision to award a massive $1 million hackathon prize to a team of developers accused of breaking the contest...

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Amazon's Private Drone Deliveries Offer Up A Whole New Universe Of Surveillance

Amazon's Jeff Bezos has usurped Elon Musk as "most interesting" dude in tech with his announcement of 30 minute drone deliveries, Kashmir Hill of Forbes points out.Bezos' announcement largely dominated...

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MORGAN STANLEY: 4 Fundamentals Build The Foundation For US Economic...

Morgan Stanley sees the U.S. economy accelerating nicely in 2014 and 2015."We expect 2013 real GDP to expand just 1.6%Y this year, shifting to a sustained pickup in growth to 2.6%Y in 2014 and 2.7%Y in...

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BRIAN BELSKI: 'We Enter 2014 Less Optimistic Than We Have In The Past Few Years'

"We enter 2014 less optimistic than we have been in the past few years," said BMO's Brian Belski in a note to clients today. "Our models suggest mid-single-digit gains in 2014 based on slightly lower...

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Hackers Are Attacking Millions Of Computers And Demanding Ransom In Bitcoins

Before you mail holiday gifts to far-away friends and relatives, back up your most important computer files. There's a scary new computer virus called CryptoLocker that was spreading like crazy in the...

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Here's Wall Street's Big Idea For 2014

It's the most wonderful time of the year!It's the time of the year when all of the big Wall Street banks come out with detailed forecasts and predictions for what will happen in 2014. These calls can...

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The PC Market Has Shrunk By 10% Because People Don't Want New Ones (MSFT)

When 2013 officially comes to a close, PC makers will have sold 10.1% fewer PCs this year than they did in 2012 – the worst year on record, according to a new report by IDC.The market research firm had...

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MAJOR BLACKOUT IN VENEZUELA: Eerie Instagrams Show Caracas Plunged Into Darkness

According to Reuters, Venezuela just suffered a massive power outage affecting multiple cities, including the capital Caracas. The blackout comes just 6 days ahead of contentious municipal elections...

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Wanna Cheat? Use These Apps To Make Sure You Don't Get Caught

Your smartphone could be encouraging you to cheat.A survey conducted in November by affairs and dating site Victoria Milan revealed that 45% of people have either cheated — or contemplated cheating —...

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Vin Diesel Breaks Silence On Paul Walker's Death In Poignant Facebook Message

By now, many of the "Fast and Furious" cast and crew have expressed their condolences in light of Paul Walker's sudden death this past weekend.Missing from those reactions was Walker's longtime co-star...

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What Victoria's Secret Workers Think When Men Walk Into The Store

A former Victoria's Secret employee told us that workers at her Chicago-area store were trained to treat male customers differently from female ones. "The general feeling about men is that they would...

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These Two Murders Helped Turn America Into The Prison Capital Of The World

The documentary project Retro Report has an incisive new video examining how two murders in California helped spur the entire country to adopt controversial "three strikes and you're out" laws.These...

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How This Entrepreneur Went From Internet Illiterate To E-Commerce Billionaire

By the time he was 16, Michael Rubin was more than $200,000 in debt with his discount ski-equipment business.Although his parents wanted him to go to college, Rubin dropped out after six weeks to focus...

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I Just Took A Totally Average $200 Plane Trip To California — But Here's How...

Yesterday evening, I boarded a plane from New York to California.I sat in a totally average $200 seat, scrunched in the very back row — 44 — in coach. I wasn't allowed to pick my seat before the...

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