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This Photo Disproves The One Thing That Everybody Knows About Triangles
Business Insider - 27 Jun 2014 21:00
Everyone learns the number one rule about triangles in high school: the angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees.But did you know that sometimes they don't? Triangles are much more interesting than you ever imagined. W...
A 13-Year-Old Describes How Kids Are Bullied On Snapchat
Business Insider - 27 Jun 2014 02:33
How do 13-year-olds, Snapchat's core demographic, use the photo app? Ruby Karp, a teenager in New Yorker, documented on Mashable how she and her friends use Snapchat. "Snapchat is used in multiple ways, but this is how I...
11 Startups We Wish Existed
Business Insider - 27 Jun 2014 03:30
Seems like there's a startup for everything these days, and yet somehow the solution we're really aching for just hasn't been created yet. We decided to put together a list of the startups we wish existed. Any entreprene...
Here's How The Wealthiest People In Tech Will Spend Their Summers
Business Insider - 27 Jun 2014 03:44
Summer is the time for relaxing, taking a vacation, and traveling with friends and family. But "vacation" means something a little different when you're a tech millionaire or billionaire. From massive island retreats...
Here Are 10 Apple Patents We Want To See Become A Reality
Business Insider - 27 Jun 2014 22:58
“We are going to patent it all,” Apple co-founder Steve Jobs reportedly told his team in 2006, according to Fred Vogelstein’s book “Dogfight.” Since then, Apple’s policy on intellectual property has been exac...
Study: Everyone Despises Overdraft Fees, Except Banks
Time - 27 Jun 2014 02:45
Customers are confused and angry
An Investment Banker Made This Music Video Documenting The Lavish Parties Of The Cannes Advertising Festival
Business Insider - 27 Jun 2014 15:44
Investment banker Terence Kawaja is a big-time player in the advertising technology field. His advisory firm, LUMA Partners, has worked to help companies like Google and Yahoo make multimillion-dollar acquisitions, and h...
Exclusive - Greece's Alpha Bank to securitise 1 billion euros of shipping loans: sources
Reuters - 27 Jun 2014 15:14
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New Jersey lawmakers legalize sports betting
Miami Herald - 27 Jun 2014 02:01
New Jersey lawmakers are sending Gov. Chris Christie a bill that would legalize sports gambling at casinos and race tracks.
Why "Millennial Bashing" In the Workplace Needs to Stop
Time - 27 Jun 2014 20:19Oil Prices Cast a Shadow Over Emerging Markets
Wall Street Journal - 27 Jun 2014 05:12
The recent run-up in global oil prices has reawakened worries about emerging economies already struggling with a slowdown in growth.
Scary Moment At Wimbledon As Novak Djokovic Narrowly Avoided A Serious Shoulder Injury
Business Insider - 27 Jun 2014 16:38
There was a scary moment during the third round at Wimbledon when top-seeded Novak Djokovic slipped and jammed his arm on the ground. The incident came against Gilles Simon with Djokovic cruising with a 2-0 lead in sets....
It Pays to Put Your Team in a Good Mood
Harvard Business Review - 27 Jun 2014 14:30
Three-member teams on which at least 1 person was in a good mood were more than twice as likely to collectively solve a murder-mystery puzzle as teams on which all members were in neutral moods, according to an experimen...
Richard Branson's 5 Secrets To Starting A Successful Business
Business Insider - 27 Jun 2014 22:41
Richard Branson opened a small record shop called Virgin Records in 1970. He had dropped out of high school a few years prior, and his only other business experience was running his own magazine. Today, Branson is worth ...
As IPO Approaches, ALIBABA Still A Mystery to Many Outside China -"The Alibaba Effect" Explains What's At Stake
Forbes - 27 Jun 2014 19:41
On August 8, 2014, shares of Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, under the ticker symbol "BABA", will go on sale to the public. It has the potential to be the largest tech IPO in history and perhaps one of the large...
How To Raise Funding: 4 Powerful Online Tools
Forbes - 27 Jun 2014 03:20
Today is one of the most incredible times in history to be an Entrepreneur or project owner. Startup costs are low. Talent abounds. Business platforms and solution providers are cutting prices to compete for your busines...
U.S. military grounds F-35 Joint Strike Fighter after fire
L.A. Times - 27 Jun 2014 01:55Apache Spark fully enabled for YARN, Hadoop: Hortonworks
Tech Times - 27 Jun 2014 14:26
Hortonworks announced that the high-performance analytics engine Apache Spark is fully enabled for YARN, meaning that it can be deployed with other engines on a single Hadoop cluster.
The Wall Street Journal: Obama proposes $500 million to aid Syrian rebels
Market Watch - 27 Jun 2014 07:07
The White House proposes a major program to train and arm moderate Syrian rebels, in a significant expansion of the U.S. role in a civil war that officials fear is bleeding into Iraq and across the region, The Wall Stree...
The 6 Competencies Global Leaders Need To Succeed
Forbes - 27 Jun 2014 01:14
It is true that the acquisition of cultural awareness and language capability makes a global leader's challenges greater, but there are specific competencies that enable leaders to find success across all borders.
Foursquare Will Start Charging For Data On Where Everyone Is
Business Insider - 27 Jun 2014 02:25
Foursquare, the location-based social network that's recently been struggling to find its identity, announced today it will charge businesses for access to its data, the Wall Street Journal reports. The New York startup ...
Banks withdraw from Barclays' dark pool: FT
Reuters - 27 Jun 2014 01:02
(Reuters) - Big banks have started pulling their business out of Barclays' dark pool, after the British bank was sued by New York's top securities regulator for allegedly misleading institutional investors over its anony...