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The 24 Hottest Athletes At The Sochi Olympics
Business Insider - 8 Feb 2014 23:11
The Olympics officially kicked off on Friday night and the games are finally underway. The competition this year is hotter than ever. Literally. From skiing to ice hockey to biathlon, we rounded up the steamiest athletes...
9 Surprising Things You Didn't Know About Cheetos
Business Insider - 8 Feb 2014 16:03
You love to scarf them down one after the other but what do you actually know about Cheetos? This brand of cheese-flavored, puffed cornmeal snack was invented in 1948, and since then its annual retail sales have gr...
Toyota Close To $1 Billion Deal To Settle Probe Into Unintended Acceleration Issues
Business Insider - 8 Feb 2014 05:40
(Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp is close to a deal to pay $1 billion to settle a U.S. criminal investigation into how it disclosed customers' complaints about unintended acceleration years ago, the Wall Street Journal re...
26 Vintages Photos That Show How New York Has Transformed Since The 1970s
Business Insider - 8 Feb 2014 20:04
The Museum of the City of New York has published a collection of photos from Edmund V. Gillon that capture street scenes in New York in the 1970s and 1980s. Gillon has published more than a dozen books on New York City, ...
LINE Is Transforming From Messaging App To Mobile Media Platform
Business Insider - 8 Feb 2014 00:01
Mobile Insider is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today. LINE REVENUE SOARS: Popula...
Iran Sending War Ships Close To US Border
Business Insider - 8 Feb 2014 17:47
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A senior Iranian naval commander says his country has sent several warships to the Atlantic Ocean, close to U.S. maritime borders for the first time. The commander of Iran's Northern Navy Fleet, Adm...
The Brutality Of Cross Country Skiing In One Surreal Photo
Business Insider - 8 Feb 2014 21:52
Here's the finish line after Saturday's women's cross-country skiing event, the skiathlon 7.5 km classic + 7.5 km free. The three medalists, Norway's Marit Bjoergen, Sweden's Charlotte Kalla, and Norway's Heidi Weng, are...
Olympic Snowboarder Writes Phone Number On His Helmet, Gets So Many Naked Pictures That His iPhone Breaks
Business Insider - 8 Feb 2014 18:16
He got eliminated before the finals of the slopestyle competition, but Russian snowboarder Alexey Sobolev is already one of the big winners of the Sochi Olympics. The 22-year-old painted his cellphone number in giant blu...
Fairway shares sink amid CEO exit
New York Post - 8 Feb 2014 04:58
Fairway plunged $3.24, or 29 percent, to $8.11 after reporting a loss in its fiscal third quarter and said its CEO is stepping down. The grocery store chain, which went...
Toyota close to $1 billion deal to settle U.S. probe: WSJ
Reuters - 8 Feb 2014 04:18
(Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp is close to a deal to pay $1 billion to settle a U.S. criminal investigation into how it disclosed customers' complaints about unintended acceleration years ago, the Wall Street Journal repo...
5 Weird Things Your Desk Job May Be Doing To Your Body
The Huffington Post - 8 Feb 2014 04:04Panama Canal, consortium make new proposals to rescue expansion
Reuters - 8 Feb 2014 03:38
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6 People Have Paid $250,000 In Bitcoin To Ride This Rocket Ship Into Space
Business Insider - 8 Feb 2014 01:36
We were talking recently with an executive in the adtech startup scene and got onto the subject of Bitcoin, and how much money was pouring into — and coming out of — the online cryptocurrency in the San Francisco a...
Huge Law Firm Parts Ways With Lawyer Accused Of Making His Ex-Girlfriend's Life A Living Hell
Business Insider - 8 Feb 2014 22:15
The big corporate law firm Schulte Roth & Zabel no longer employs an associate named Samir Tabar, who's accused in a lawsuit of relentlessly harassing and terrorizing his ex-girlfriend, the American Lawyer reports. "M...
What To Do With The 1099-MISC Form You Just Received?
Forbes - 8 Feb 2014 20:11
Across the US, millions of people are getting 1099-MISC forms. Of course, it’s a way for the IRS to make sure it gets paid the taxes owed. This is done by matching the 1099-MISC form you received and the one that your ...
Debate over Ga. plan to supplement streams
Miami Herald - 8 Feb 2014 18:05
After it failed last year, a measure that Georgia regulators say would prevent wildlife deaths during drought is making the rounds again in the Legislature.
EDD is ordered to take steps to improve service
L.A. Times - 8 Feb 2014 04:44Sharia-Compliant Bonds, Also Known As Sukuk Or Islamic Bonds, On The Rise Thanks To Malaysia, Gulf States and Africa
IBTimes - 8 Feb 2014 04:21
Islamic finance, which includes a proscription against borrowers paying interest to lenders, will grow internationally to more than $100 billion this year, after a difficult 2013. The issuance of sukuk, or shariah-compli...
A Florida County Spent Over $5 Million Jailing Homeless People. It Could've Spent Less On Shelter
The Huffington Post - 8 Feb 2014 02:17Vanguard: Investors Use IRAs As Money Market Parking Lot
Forbes - 8 Feb 2014 00:46
Did you mean to leave your IRA invested in a money market fund?
The Most Powerful Pivot Level
Forbes - 8 Feb 2014 23:22
Currently if you ask any audience of traders if they have heard of or use pivot levels almost every hand will go up, however that wasn?t always the case. I first remember hearing about pivot point analysis from the late ...
Surprise Winner Of Olympic Gold, Cash, Endorsement Payday
Forbes - 8 Feb 2014 21:10
With Team USA Collecting Medals in Sochi, Cash, Endorsements and Tax Bills Will Start Piling Up.