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CHART: Here's What A Beer Will Cost You At Every NHL Arena
Business Insider - 31 Mar 2014 23:10
The average cost for a small draft beer at NHL games this season is $7.34 according to data collected by Team Marketing Report from each team. That is up 3.8% from $7.07 during 2012-13 season. Three teams have the most e...
Map Shows The Most Popular Baseball Team In Every County
Business Insider - 31 Mar 2014 16:03
Facebook made a fan map that shows which baseball team every county in the United States roots for. It's based on Facebook likes. Some takeaways: The Yankees are the default team in areas without a team close-by: Louisia...
The 9 Best-Rated 'How I Met Your Mother' Episodes
Business Insider - 31 Mar 2014 23:25
We were recently introduced to the site GraphTV. The site indexes the IMDB ratings of virtually every television show. With the series finale of “How I Met Your Mother” Monday night, we thought it would be cool to ...
The First of the 2014 Ladies Watches
Forbes - 31 Mar 2014 21:47
Mechanical, artistic and bejeweled timepieces were all part of the offerings for women at SIHH 2014, the first luxury watch show of the year.
We Fixed Fox News' Embarrassing Obamacare Chart
Business Insider - 31 Mar 2014 20:58
On Obamacare deadline day, this chart from Fox News is being passed around the Twittersphere (via Media Matters): The chart appears to scale 6 million to about one-third of the Obama administration's original goal for s...
Google's Pokémon Master job-opening April Fools' joke is actually a real game
Venture Beat - 31 Mar 2014 20:00
Time for you to put those Pokémon skills to some good use.
Why oil-loving Texas is now friendly to electric cars
Venture Beat - 31 Mar 2014 17:00
As the land of big pickup trucks and Big Oil, Texas would hardly seem like the kind of place where electric cars could thrive. Yet the Lone Star State is one of the friendliest for plug-in cars which, according to ... �...
The Best Leaders Make Unforgettable First Impressions
Forbes - 31 Mar 2014 15:57
Leaders that try too hard to win people over are the ones that end up losing the respect of their employees - especially when it's not genuine. The most memorable leaders know how to naturally make a good first impressio...
Google Can Handle Data, But Can It Handle Actual Shoppers?
Forbes - 31 Mar 2014 04:06
Google is set to open up its first retail location in New York City's SoHo neighborhood, according to news reports earlier this month. Specifically, Google has signed a lease for 8,000-square feet at 131 Greene St., whic...
Senate panel: Caterpillar dodged $2.4B in U.S. taxes
Chicago Tribune - 31 Mar 2014 23:1220 Brilliant Ways You Can Slice Up Europe
Business Insider - 31 Mar 2014 18:30
Europe is getting sliced up again, this time by Russia taking Ukraine. In response, DataRep has posted graphic designer Yanko Tsvetkov's sweet infographic from the second edition of his Atlas of Prejudice showing Europ...
How a Giant Kazakh Oil Project Went Awry
Wall Street Journal - 31 Mar 2014 06:08
The Kashagan field, a giant oil project developed by Western oil companies off Kazakhstan, is years late and more than $30 billion over budget.
Trading Strategies: Don't get burned by hot 3D stocks
Market Watch - 31 Mar 2014 06:01
The 3D printing industry has gotten a lot of ink over the last year or so, but does all of that bullishness translate into profits for investors?
Michael Lewis' "Flash Boys" Exposes Shady World Of Dark Pools; Some Funds Have Already Pulled Out
IBTimes - 31 Mar 2014 04:21
One of the most secretive and fast-growing practices on Wall Street -- the use of dark pools -- is about to be thrust from the shadows into the harsh light of day by author Michael Lewis in his much-anticipated new book,...
China, The World's Biggest New-Car Market, May Be Poised To Buy More Old Ones, Too
Forbes - 31 Mar 2014 03:54
Antique car enthusiasts from Jay Leno to Richard Carpenter have helped to turn a collection hobby into a big business in the United States. Now that China has emerged as the world’s largest auto market, what’s the ...
APNewsBreak: Dodgers set payroll record at $234M
Miami Herald - 31 Mar 2014 03:23
The Los Angeles Dodgers set a record with an opening-day payroll of $234 million Sunday, according to a study of big league contracts by The Associated Press.
China's Fosun Buys into Bottom of Greek Market with $1.26B Real Estate Deal
Forbes - 31 Mar 2014 03:12
The investment conglomerate run by the man often referred to as China's Warren Buffett seems set to pick up another low-priced, high value investment as a group led by Fosun International has reportedly acquired a piece...
YouTube, Google+, & LinkedIn drive most engaged traffic, Reddit & SU the least
Venture Beat - 31 Mar 2014 22:34
While Google+ and LinkedIn aren't quite in YouTube's league, they both drive more engaged traffic than social giants Facebook and Twitter, making them something of an untapped resource.
Crowdsourcing Your Startup Portfolio: 6 Crowdfunding Experts Weigh In
Forbes - 31 Mar 2014 21:58
In 2009, while working on my book, Tradestream your Way to Profits: Building a Killer Portfolio in the Age of Social Media, I wrote an entire chapter on crowdsourcing investment ideas. Of course, back then, I wasn’t re...
Billionaires Gone Bad...The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship
Forbes - 31 Mar 2014 21:08
Americans celebrate the success of the world’s billionaires. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, we can’t seem to get enough of them. We follow their words on Twitter, track their daily wealth, and immortalize them in film...
Supreme Court Justices Give Software Patents A Pass, Zero In On Business Methods
Forbes - 31 Mar 2014 20:42
The justices don't seem inclined to get rid of software patents, but business-method patents could be in trouble.
Will Your Child Be Born With A Genetic Disease? Find Out For $345
Forbes - 31 Mar 2014 20:35
Until recently, thorough genetic testing that scours the human genome for inherited diseases and medical predispositions carried a large pricetag. Genetic testing company Recombine claims to have sliced away costs with t...