9 Competitive Jobs That Everyone Wants But Hardly Anyone Gets
One of the biggest job stresses is having to fight with competitors and coworkers for clients, commissions, and recognition.Rather than focusing on your own work, highly competitive fields force you to...
View ArticleChristmas Trees Are Selling At A Pace We Haven't Seen In Years
Apparently it's shaping up to be a great year for Christmas tree sales."It appears that while housing is still weakening consumer spending is strengthening on many fronts, from furniture sales to...
View ArticleFrench Student Makes A Big Profit Selling Tins Of Air From His Village
Would you like to breathe the air of the picturesque French town of Montcuq? For just 5.50 euros (plus another five for shipping to the U.S.), a 250ml tin full of that air could be yours."Air de...
View ArticleEveryone Is Baffled By Alan Greenspan's Comment About Bitcoin
Earlier today, former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan discussed Bitcoin with Bloomberg's Trish Regan.Regan got right to the point: "Is Bitcoin a bubble?" Regan asked."I guess so," Greenspan said, adding,...
View ArticleOne Criterion Trumps All Others When Advisors Pick Investments For Clients
FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors.One Criterion Trumps All Others When Advisors Pick Investments For Clients...
View ArticlePeople Are Loving This Picture Of Valley Tech Stars Hanging Out With 1990's...
Silicon Valley had a 1990's flashback, thanks to the musical and comedy tastes of Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff.Benioff tweeted this picture of 1990's superstars MC Hammer and Jerry Seinfeld hanging...
View ArticleUnderstanding Facebook's FBX — Social Media's First Ad Exchange
Facebook launched FBX — the first-ever social media real-time bidding (RTB) ad exchange — in June 2012 to let advertisers buy Facebook ad inventory that retargets users based on their past online...
View ArticleThree Norman Rockwell Paintings Sell For Nearly $60 Million
Three oil paintings by Norman Rockwell, the celebrated 20th century master illustrator of everyday life in America, sold Wednesday for almost $60 million, setting a new record for the artist.The best...
View ArticleIt's Impossible To Compete With This Woman's Snapchat Art
As a kid, Dasha Batelle was so fascinated by comics, she used to copy them out of the newspaper and The New Yorker.So when the 24-year-0ld New Yorker began her job as a paralegal, she realized she...
View Article11 Best Streaming Apps To Turn Your Tablet And Smartphone Into A TV
Most of us can't live without a subscription to Netflix or Amazon Prime.With busy schedules and other issues that arise, the ability to stream content to a multitude of devices from anywhere has become...
View ArticleNBA Game In Mexico City Evacuated Because Of A Fire In The Arena
The Minnesota Timberwolves and San Antonio Spurs were scheduled to play a regular season game tonight in Mexico City. However, it appears that the game has been canceled as a fire has filled the arena...
View Article11 Moments That Made The Ford Mustang The Ultimate American Car
The all-new 2015 Ford Mustang is set to officially make its debut tomorrow morning, and while the photos have leaked, it's still going to be quite an event for the auto world.That's partly because the...
View ArticleNew Report Details Expansion Of North Korean Prison Camps, Guards' Use Of...
Satellite images of one of North Korea's largest political prison camps suggests its inmate population is expanding, Amnesty International said Thursday in a report detailing rape and torture in the...
View ArticleThe Smog In Shanghai Right Now Seriously Looks Like It's The End Of The World
The smog in Shanghai is frequently awful.But some of the images showing up on social media right now seem to be at another level.More Shanghai airpocalypse pic today: The Bund...
View ArticleFast & Furious Franchise Releases Emotionally-Charged Video Tribute To Paul...
Following the Nov. 30 death of Paul Walker in a car crash in Santa Clarita, Calif., the Fast & Furious franchise — for which he's most famous for — has released a touching two-minute video tribute...
View ArticleHere's The Federally Mandated Technology That Could Have Stopped The Deadly...
In 2008, President Bush signed the Rail Safety Improvement Act into law, setting new rules designed to prevent train accidents.One of those measures required some railroads, to install positive train...
View Article7 Holiday Party Conversation Starters
It's that time of year again — the office holiday party.Unlike other work events, the holiday party is one that most people actually attend. It's an opportunity to meet new people, and gives you...
View ArticleThe Disturbing Reason 97% Of Federal Drug Defendants Plead Guilty
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has a disturbing report alleging the U.S. government essentially forces drug defendants to either plead guilty or rot in prison for an insane amount of time.In the report,...
View ArticleInside The Tiny Prison Cell That Held Nelson Mandela For Nearly 20 Years
Former South African President Nelson Mandela died today at the age of 95, after succumbing to a long battle with a lung infection.He served as the first black president of South Africa and brought an...
View ArticleThe Secret Memo That Led To The James Bond Movies
A very interesting piece of memorabilia showed up in The Daily Mail today.It's the secret memo that eventually led to the James Bond movies.A lot of people forget this, but Bond creator, Ian Fleming,...
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