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A Million-Dollar Vintage Sports Car Was Demolished By A Falling Tree
Business Insider - 10 Jun 2014 23:49
From 1967 to 1970, just 351 2000GT sports cars left Toyota showrooms around the world. After an unfortunate meeting with a tree last weekend, there is now one fewer example of the ultra-rare classic left. According to ...
Sony Takes The Lead In The Video Game Console Wars (SNE, MSFT, NTDOY)
Business Insider - 10 Jun 2014 22:37
After years of coming in second place behind Nintendo, Sony has finally taken the lead of the shrinking console video game market, as you can see in this chart from our friends at Statista. It's best to be in first inste...
REVIEW: Here's What It's Like To Use A Giant Android Tablet That's Also A Phone
Business Insider - 10 Jun 2014 02:01
Before I had a tablet, I often found myself squinting at my social media feeds and struggling to type lengthy emails on my iPhone’s tiny 4-inch screen. It took some persuading to realize that investing $400+ in a good ...
Developers Were Lining Up Just To Get A Photo With Apple Executive Craig Federighi (AAPL)
Business Insider - 10 Jun 2014 15:18
Apple CEO Tim Cook called Craig Federighi "Superman" on stage during the WWDC keynote where Apple revealed OS X Yosemite, and iOS 8. Perhaps he should have called him "Jagger," because Federighi is now a bona fide rock...
Asia stocks reach three-year high
Reuters - 10 Jun 2014 08:10
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Long Island fund manager 'fleeced' clients out of $17M: feds
New York Post - 10 Jun 2014 05:20
A 62-year-old Hummer-driving Long Island fund manager was charged Monday with running a Ponzi scheme for nine years -- siphoning $17 million from his clients. James M. Peister ripped off...
Family Dollar thwarts Icahn with 'poison pill'
New York Post - 10 Jun 2014 05:19
Billionaire Carl Icahn's conversation with Family Dollar has gotten off on the wrong foot. The activist investor told The Post he took it as an "insult" after the dollar-store chain...
Walmart.com Names New US Chief
ABC News - 10 Jun 2014 18:17
Walmart.com names Fernando Madeira as new head as predecessor leaves for Five Below
Larry Ellison Gets Ready To Crush His Old Nemesis, SAP
Business Insider - 10 Jun 2014 23:44
Larry Ellison threw a press conference Tuesday to show off the new database he actually announced back in September 2013, called the In-Memory Option for the Oracle database. The big news today was that this database wil...
ETFs Help Remove Fear From Bond Market Investing
Forbes - 10 Jun 2014 18:21
For broad bond market ETF-holding investors, the loss of bond value may be transitory as a portfolio of lower yielding holdings is replaced with bonds carrying higher yields.
An Interactive Guide To Every World Cup Stadium
Business Insider - 10 Jun 2014 17:54
The folks at esri have put together an interactive map of all the World Cup stadiums and shared it with us. The United States will play their first group-stage match against Ghana in Estadio das Dunas (#8), followed by A...
Kindle Readers Are Seriously Obsessed With Quotes From 'The Hunger Games'
Business Insider - 10 Jun 2014 17:49
Think no one is judging you when you highlight your book passages in “The Hunger Games”? Think again. Kindle users can highlight their favorite book passages so they can return to them later, and Amazon keeps track ...
Where To Watch The World Cup In NYC, Depending On The Country You're Cheering For (MAP)
The Huffington Post - 10 Jun 2014 16:44Subway strike suspended in Sao Paulo, may hit Rio
Miami Herald - 10 Jun 2014 06:12
A paralyzing subway strike has been suspended, though union officials warn that if their demands for higher pay aren't met they will call workers off the job again Thursday — the day Sao Paulo hosts the opening match o...
Sony bringing PlayStation TV to US and Europe
Miami Herald - 10 Jun 2014 06:02
Sony is bringing its PlayStation TV video- and game-streaming device to North America and Europe this fall.
8 Lessons Businesses Can Learn From Lemonade Stands
The Huffington Post - 10 Jun 2014 06:00The Smartphone Does It Again: Building Credit Scores For Microentrepreneurs
Forbes - 10 Jun 2014 06:00
In 2010, when Shivani Siroya started developing an idea for a new microfinance model, predatory lending practices were changing the way people saw microfinance. Pioneer microfinance institutions like Muhammad Yunus’s G...
Branson, Thiel, and others bet $25M on Transferwise money transfer platform
Venture Beat - 10 Jun 2014 04:45
Not only does the low-cost international money transfer startup Transferwise have some very cheeky “anti-bank” TV ads, it now has the backing of super-investor Peter Thiel and super-entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson b...
Business Briefing: Supreme Court Rules BP Must Still Pay Claims
The New York Times - 10 Jun 2014 04:26
The court said that BP must continue paying claims from a fund established after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill while the company appeals the terms of its settlement.
Dropbox buys MobileSpan, a ticket to enterprise security
Venture Beat - 10 Jun 2014 23:49
Dropbox is the latest Silicon Valley company with a penchant for retail therapy. After acquiring DropTalk last Thursday, the cloud storage company has purchased MobileSpan, a startup that enables enterprise employees to ...
Watch the Super Smash Bros. Invitational tournament here
Venture Beat - 10 Jun 2014 23:00
The Super Smash Bros. competition starts at 4 p.m. Pacific.
Gotcha! Opportunity Marketing Done Very Well
Forbes - 10 Jun 2014 22:46
Text and mobile and email marketing have opened a whole new world of timely marketing messages.