The Democratic Party Is Launching A Tech Startup
This week, the Democratic National Committee is launching "Project Ivy" a program designed to bring to local races the tech tools that helped Barack Obama win the White House. As part of this...
View ArticleI Finally Got To Try A Phone Made By Xiaomi, The Buzzy Startup People Call...
Xiaomi, a Chinese smartphone maker that has at times sold more devices than Apple in that country, is one of the most talked about hardware startups these days.Its founder and CEO, Lei Jun, is pretty...
View ArticleHow Americans Spent $500 Billion At The Grocery Store Last Year
RBC Capital Markets analysts David Palmer and Christopher Carril highlighted the following slide in a recent equity research report. The diagram comes from General Mills' presentation at the Consumer...
View ArticleCARL ICAHN: The eBay Board Is Dysfunctional And It's Time To End The Charade
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn sent another open shareholder letter slamming eBay. Icahn, who owns a 0.82% stake in eBay, has been demanding that eBay spinoff PayPal into a separate company. The...
View ArticleHow This Startup CEO Managed A Staff That Tripled In A Year
The last year was a huge one for sales and inventory company Revel Systems.In just 12 months, the team's staff exploded from 30 people to 100. That's growth of more than 300%, and it carried the...
View ArticleRussian investigators want Putin foe Navalny under house arrest
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian investigators have asked a court to place opposition leader Alexei Navalny under house arrest, the federal Investigative Committee said on Wednesday.Navalny, an...
View ArticleEx-NFL star Hernandez involved in jail house scuffle -official
BOSTON (Reuters) - Former National Football League star Aaron Hernandez, charged with shooting a friend to death last year, was involved in a Massachusetts jailhouse scuffle with another inmate that...
View ArticleSony to shutter 20 retail stores in the U.S
(Reuters) - Sony Corp's <6758.T> electronic unit said on Wednesday it is closing 20 retail stores in the United States and cutting 1,000 jobs, as the TV and game console maker tries to stem...
View ArticleRolls-Royce Wants To Build Giant Drone Ships That Cross Oceans Without Human...
Rolls-Royce, the famous luxury car company, wants to introduce autonomous ships to the $375 billion-per-year shipping industry, reports Bloomberg.Unmanned drone ships would operate via GPS to make it...
View ArticleNew Home Sales Unexpectedly Surge (ITB, XHB)
New home sales unexpectedly surged 9.6% month-0ver-month to an annualized pace of 468,000.This was better than expectations for a 3.4% fall to an annualized pace of 400,000.December's reading was...
View ArticleNew home sales hit five-and-a-half year high in January
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sales of new single-family homes surged to a 5-1/2-year high in January, which could ease concerns of a sharp slowdown in the housing market.The Commerce Department said on...
View ArticleThe California Drought In One Photo
The terrible severity of California's drought is strikingly obvious these side-by-side images of Folsom Lake, a reservoir near Sacramento. On July 20, 2011, the lake was at 97% of its total capacity,...
View ArticleTiny Northwest Biotherapeutics aims to dominate brain cancer
By Ransdell PiersonNEW YORK (Reuters) - Ten years ago, cash-strapped biotechnology company Northwest Biotherapeutics Inc was down to three employees and one week from closing its doors when a financial...
View ArticleJustices say Allen Stanford victim lawsuits can go forward
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that lawyers, insurance brokers and others who worked with convicted swindler Allen Stanford cannot avoid lawsuits by investors seeking to...
View ArticleCarl Icahn Again Accuses Marc Andreessen Of Lining His Own Pockets At The...
Activist advisor Carl Icahn just released a follow-up letter to his initial shred of eBay's board of directors, and he once again calls out board member Marc Andreessen — accusing him of costing eBay...
View ArticleSocial Networks Like Facebook Are Finally Going After The Massive Amount Of...
The future of social media turns on being able to make sense of "unstructured data," the firehose of texts, posts, tweets, pictures, and videos that even the most powerful computers are unable to...
View ArticleChris Dixon: If You Aren't Getting Rejected, Your Goals Aren't Ambitious Enough
If you're frequently rejected, you're doing something right.At least according to Chris Dixon, an entrepreneur and partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. In a post on his blog, Dixon...
View ArticleAfter Fight With Fellow Inmate, Aaron Hernandez Must Remain In Cell For 23...
Former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez reportedly got into a physical fight with a fellow inmate and now he is in a restricted area. According to NECN, Hernandez will be in a restricted section of...
View Article15 Things You Never Knew About Walt Disney World
The latest installment in Susan Veness' "Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World" series will definitely test you. Even if you're a Disney freak, chances are you'll learn a thing or two from Vaness, who has...
View ArticleRussia Gives 15-Year-Old Figure Skating Prodigy A Mercedes And A Personal...
Every Russian Olympic medalist has received a free Mercedes-Benz after the country's most successful Olympics ever.That even includes Yulia Lipnitskaya, the 15-year-old figure skating prodigy who burst...
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