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One Simple Number Determines How Cool You Are On Instagram
Business Insider - 11 Jun 2014 21:14
According to teenagers, determining how cool you are on Instagram comes down to one number: Your "Cool Ratio." Introduced to us by a 12-year-old kid named Josh who was sitting next to the author of this post at a bus sto...
Robert De Niro Really Drove An NYC Cab To Prep For His 1976 Role In 'Taxi Driver'
Business Insider - 11 Jun 2014 22:24
Robert De Niro was nominated for an Oscar for his 1976 leading role in "Taxi Driver," about a Vietnam veteran working as a night-time cab driver in New York City to battle his insomnia. Perhaps De Niro was so convincing...
A Step-By-Step Guide To How McDonald's Fries Are Made
Business Insider - 11 Jun 2014 23:49
McDonald's sells 13 billion servings of fries every year. And the fast food giant has the system for the signature item down to a science. McDonald's Canada has a great video that breaks down the process of making th...
5 Investors Who Move The Market
Forbes - 11 Jun 2014 23:06
5 'Market Movers' with more control than seems fair.
The Wars In Iraq And Syria Have Merged Into A Single Conflict
Business Insider - 11 Jun 2014 21:10
After this week, it no longer makes sense to think of the civil conflicts in Iraq and Syria as separate events. They are now a single war, both in their operational details and in the broader forces driving both conflict...
The Wall Street Journal: Google pays $500M for satellite-imaging startup Skybox
Market Watch - 11 Jun 2014 08:22
Google's latest acquisition -- Skybox -- will allow the world's largest Internet search provider to collect and provide data from the sky.
Russia gives Ukraine more time to reach gas deal
Miami Herald - 11 Jun 2014 08:03
Russia's gas giant has given Ukraine another week before it will start demanding prepayment for gas, without which it has threatened to cut off supplies.
L&T Finance Holdings falls over 5% on lower share sale price
livemint.com - 11 Jun 2014 06:16
Share price falls after the company set a floor price at a discount of 9.7% to its Tuesday's close
The 'Transfer Of Wealth' Trap: Why Causes Should Probably Ignore The Big Numbers
Forbes - 11 Jun 2014 23:23
This is my second "transfer of wealth" cycle.
Metals Stocks: Gold up a third session, holds above $1,260
Market Watch - 11 Jun 2014 18:12
Gold futures head higher for a third session in a row, buoyed by renewed worries over global growth prospects, weakness Palladium continues to surge amid a South African miners' strike.
Borrow, Return, Repeat
The Huffington Post - 11 Jun 2014 17:12Future Retail rings in debt reduction plan
livemint.com - 11 Jun 2014 16:07Asia Stocks to Watch: Tensions grow in Hong Kong as China asserts control
Market Watch - 11 Jun 2014 07:19
Seventeen years after Hong Kong's transfer to Chinese sovereignty, concerns are growing in the former British colony about democratic rights and freedoms.
Walmart's dirty secret
New York Post - 11 Jun 2014 06:01
Walmart has low prices -- unless you're talking about the prices of its top execs. That's the message from the retail giant's independent shareholders, with more than a third of...
Here's what Dr. Dre and Beats headphones bring to Apple
Tech Times - 11 Jun 2014 05:38
Dr. Dre has been compared with Steve Jobs as both being workaholic perfectionists. Apple hopes that Dr. Dre will help the company regain its "cool" factor against rival Samsung.
Music biz invokes streaming boom to nudge radio into paying its share
New York Post - 11 Jun 2014 04:56
The music industry group behind the Grammy Awards wants radio stations to start forking over royalties to the songs' performers. Music streaming companies like Pandora and Spotify already pay performers...
Sentencing of ex-SAC trader Martoma delayed
New York Post - 11 Jun 2014 04:40
Convicted insider trader Mathew Martoma has been given almost seven more weeks to ponder his fate. The former SAC Capital portfolio manager's sentencing -- originally scheduled for June 10 --...
Top Global Real Estate Markets For Affluent Chinese
Forbes - 11 Jun 2014 02:53
According to Chinese real estate listings firm, Juwai, these are the top 10 countries China's wealthy are house hunting. To the world, China is an emerging market. But to China, the world is an emerging opportunity. Here...
Look Out Main Street, Alibaba Is Moving In
Forbes - 11 Jun 2014 23:28
China’s Alibaba Group has been gathering attention in the US for some time. Its impending Initial Public Offering (IPO) is expected to potentially be the biggest in history, even if, as was reported in Bloomberg, it ...
Facebook overhauls Embedded Posts with killer new features
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2014 23:01
Facebook upgrades Embedded Posts with slick new features while giving a nod to reporters with FB Newswire.
BitTorrent experiments with decentralized private-chat service
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2014 22:43
Are you longing to chat in private — not just “off the record” but off the grid? BitTorrent today released an internal alpha of its server-less chat app, making your dreams of truly private chats a near-reality. Bi...
Why negativity in your startup is a good thing
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2014 22:34
Negatism is “the act of learning from negative outcomes or behaviors” — and boy, will we petition heavily to officially add this word to the dictionary. However, if “negatism” can’t be a real word yet, it sur...