Kyoto Entrepreneur Turned 13 Stray Kittens Into A Popular Business
Cat cafes, where patrons pay to hang out with cats, have become huge in Japan and spread around the world since the first one opened in Taiwan in 1998. Adorable felines, after all, may be the one thing...
View ArticleReport: Microsoft Is Eyeing Qualcomm's Steve Mollenkopf As Its Next CEO
In the search for Microsoft's next CEO, rumor was that the board was considering someone new to the company.Now Bloomberg is reporting that the dark horse is Qualcomm COO Steve Mollenkopf.Mollenkopf is...
View ArticleHOUSE PASSES BUDGET BILL IN A BLOWOUT
The House of Representatives easily passed the budget bill that was the result of a deal brokered by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Sen.), clearing its biggest hurdle on the way to...
View ArticleIdentity Theft Now Costs Far More Than All Other Property Crimes COMBINED
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has a sobering new report finding identity theft cost Americans $10 billion more last year than all other property crimes measured by the National Crime...
View ArticleChilling Photo Shows Kim Jong-Un's Uncle As He Stands Trial For Treason
North Korea has executed Leader Kim Jong-Un's once-powerful uncle Jang Song-thaek for treason.Martyn Williams, senior correspondent at tech news site IDG, just Tweeted an image from page 2 of today's...
View ArticleWhy Afghanistan Is Such A Mess, In Two Unanswered Questions
As part of the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Afghanistan, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R., Calif.) asked three top officials two simple questions: How many Americans have died in Afghanistan...
View ArticleProtesters in Ukraine Have A Secret Weapon That Keeps Them Chanting Deep Into...
It's about 2:30 a.m. EST in Kiev, Ukraine right now.Early Wednesday morning protesters repelled a nine-hour siege from riot police, and on Thursday EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said that...
View ArticleWhy The AP Risked Exposing An American CIA Agent Missing In Iran
The AP released a bombshell report Thursday detailing the story of Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent who went missing in Iran in 2007.The story exposed a major CIA scandal — Levinson was paid to...
View ArticleVANGUARD: These Four Simple Principles Can Put Investors On The Path To Success
FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors.These Four Simple Principles Can Put Investors On The Path To Success (Vanguard)...
View ArticleTwitter Guts Its Block Feature: 'Block' No Longer Stops People From Seeing...
Twitter has dramatically changed how its "block" feature works.Blocking someone used to mean that the person was blocked from seeing your tweets.Now it means the opposite. You won't see that person's...
View ArticleAs Competitors Stumble, Nimble Storage Goes Public On Friday
The next enterprise startup to become a public company will happen on Friday.Nimble Storage plans to sell 8 million shares and raise up to $160 million. Shares will be priced between $18 and $20 a...
View ArticleCameron Diaz Buys A New $9 Million Condo In Chelsea
Cameron Diaz just picked up a chic condo in Walker Tower in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood for $9 million, Trulia reports. Diaz's new pad on West 18th Street has 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, a home...
View ArticleThe Most And Least Healthy States In America [MAP]
America's Health Rankings— an annual report released by the United Health Foundation, American Public Health Association, and Partnership for Prevention — just announced the healthiest and least...
View ArticleWhy Pensions Have Been Loading Up On Alternative Investments
FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors.Why Pensions Have Been Loading Up On Alternatives (ThinkAdvisor) Public sector...
View ArticleThis Is What Happens When You Connect A 27-Year-Old Mac To Today's Internet...
From the don't-try-this-at-home category we give you a fun video showing a 27-year-old Mac PC navigating the modern Internet.Given how fast technology changes, 27-years in tech is like over 100 human...
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 ArticleWWII Story Shows How Badly NSA May Have Hurt US Tech Brands
Since June, fugitive NSA analyst Edward Snowden has been leaking Top Secret documents about the tactics, techniques, and procedures of America's top surveillance wing — some of which include details of...
View ArticleSome Winter Survival Tips From The US Marine Corps
James Glanton "did everything right" when he and his family suffered a slow-rollover of their vehicle and became stuck in sub-zero Nevada temperatures for two days this week.Glanton helped his family...
View ArticleChina's Fuzzy Vision For Greater Beijing
The spectacular rise of the Pearl and Yangtze River deltas over the past several decades has inspired city leaders around the country to try and emulate their success by building up city clusters of...
View ArticleHow Tech Has Changed Sex, Dating, And Mating
Whether we want to admit it or not, technology is changing every single part of our lives in the 21st century. One particular area that's been impacted by this is our relationships. Online dating,...
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