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The Best Images And GIFs From Baseball's All-Star Game
Business Insider - 17 Jul 2013 16:53
As frustrating as Major League Baseball's All-Star game can be, it is still the best All-Star game going and last night was no exception. From the mix-up during introductions to Prince Fielder's reaction to hitting a tri...
The 6 Infamous Crimes Committed By Mexico's Zetas Cartel
Business Insider - 17 Jul 2013 16:36
Los Zetas, the notorious Mexican drug cartel, is known for committing some of the most brutal crimes in Latin America. The group originated in the 1990s when members of a Mexican special forces unit, assigned to combat t...
Dubai Is Going To Pay Its Residents In Gold If They Lose Weight
Business Insider - 17 Jul 2013 23:02
Nothing burns calories like a nice monetary incentive. At least that's the theory being tested in Dubai, where the city is offering residents 2 grams of solid gold if they lose at least 2 kg (4.4 lbs) within 30 days, Emi...
Reliance unit hopes to turn a new page in India's retail story
livemint.com - 17 Jul 2013 20:16
Reliance Retail's success, if significant and sustained, will prove that modern retail is profitable in India
Barclays to fight $453 million power fine in U.S. court
Reuters - 17 Jul 2013 17:52
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Debt funds plunge as RBI squeezes market
livemint.com - 17 Jul 2013 16:27
Medium-to-long-term govt securities schemes were the worst hit, dropping 2.52% on average
Capital One Financial (COF) Earnings Expected to Rise
Forbes - 17 Jul 2013 21:37
Wall Street is high on Capital One Financial, expecting it to report earnings that are up 421% from a year ago when it reports its second quarter earnings on Thursday, July 18, 2013. The consensus estimate is $1.72 per s...
The Scorching Hot US Men's Soccer Team Is A Giant Love-Fest Right Now
Business Insider - 17 Jul 2013 20:15
EAST HARTFORD, Conn--Landon Donovan didn't want to talk about the pass. It was a perfect pass, mind you, a wonderfully weighted cross that Donovan delivered while sprinting down the right wing late in Tuesday's then-scor...
Spotify Royalties Appear To Be Awfully High Despite What Thom Yorke Says
Forbes - 17 Jul 2013 18:13
One of the shouting matches going on at present is that the rates Spotify pays to musicians and songwriters are terribly low. So low in fact that Thom Yoke, of that popular beat combo Radiohead, has withdrawn his indepen...
Adam Levine Engaged To Victoria's Secret Model Behati Prinsloo
Business Insider - 17 Jul 2013 16:30
Maroon 5 frontman and "The Voice" mentor Adam Levine, 34, and Victoia's Secret Angel Behati Prinsloo, 24, split ways in late spring after briefly dating but have apparently had a change of heart. On Tuesday, the couple c...
Markets Are Doing Nothing As The World Waits For Ben
Business Insider - 17 Jul 2013 10:09
Markets are doing nothing. Everywhere we look, whether it's in Asia, Europe, or the US futures market, there's virtually no change. The world is waiting for Ben Bernanke's final Humphrey-Hawkins testimony (his semi-annua...
6,000 mobile developers: Android most popular, iOS most profitable, Windows Phone most "next"
Venture Beat - 17 Jul 2013 09:00
The biggest mobile developer study in history with 6,000 respondents from 115 countries says that while iOS developers make an average of $5,200 per month in app revenue and Android developers pull in $4,700, more develo...
RBI opens special liquidity window for mutual funds
livemint.com - 17 Jul 2013 06:25
RBI will conduct a 3-day repo window, under which banks can borrow `25,000 crore at an interest rate of 10.25%
Public pension systems flunk funding test
Boston - 17 Jul 2013 03:07
Eighty out of 105 Massachusetts retirement authorities received a failing grade for their progress in covering billions of dollars in future pension liabilities, according to a new database of public pension performance....
Court awards American Indian child to SC couple
Boston - 17 Jul 2013 23:59
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- An American Indian child at the center of a custody suit that went to the U.S. Supreme Court should be returned to the Charleston-area couple seeking to adopt her, South Carolina's highest court ru...
Technology can provide a boost for small business
Miami Herald - 17 Jul 2013 23:57
Small business owner Sean Hilty is getting more customers -- and more sleep -- now that he's ditched his pen for a keyboard.
Heather Huhman: Are Millennials Ready to Be Thought Leaders?
The Huffington Post - 17 Jul 2013 23:56
Millennial workers are said to be lazy, disrespectful, too entitled, and immature. These qualities may or may not be true for members of this generation, but like it or not, millennials are going to make up 36 percent of...
3 Smart And Simple Strategies For The Beginning Investor
Business Insider - 17 Jul 2013 23:54
In today's volatile investing climate, it's scary to even think about putting your hard-earned money in the stock market, let alone actually do it. That's an emotional hurdle every investor has to get over. Luckily, ther...
Intel's new CEO says 50 new 2-in-1 laptop-tablet hybrid designs in the works
Venture Beat - 17 Jul 2013 23:16
2-in-1 designs give users both laptop and tablet experiences in one device.
Withings gets in on the wearable computing craze, raises $30M
Venture Beat - 17 Jul 2013 23:14
Withings, the maker of digital health tracking devices, has nabbed another $30 million. The France-based startup will use the funding to take its products to new, international markets.
The 'Third Wave': What mobile gaming's maturation means for publishing, discoverability, and boring games
Venture Beat - 17 Jul 2013 23:03
Guest Post The chief creative officer at Kiloo thinks it's a fantastic time to be developing mobile games.
Stayful launches real-time bidding platform for boutique hotel rooms
Venture Beat - 17 Jul 2013 23:00
Stayful has built a bidding platform that allows travelers and independent boutique hotel owners to negotiate room prices in real time.