300 Million People Use WeChat To Text With Strangers, But Most Americans...
WeChat is a multi-purpose messaging app made by Chinese Internet portal company Tencent. The app's popularity is soaring overseas. WeChat launched in October 2010 and had about 5 million users by May...
View ArticleSee How Real Fast Food Looks Shockingly Different Than It Does In Ads
The fast food advertising industry is dedicated to making items appear bigger and better. The blogger Dario D decided to compare major fast food product advertisements to reality. He posted the results...
View ArticleMario Balotelli Covered His Shoes With His Own Newspaper Headlines To Hide...
Three shoe companies are battling to sign soccer star Mario Balotelli to a new shoe contract. In the meantime, Balotelli has gotten creative while hiding the logos on his cleats in recent games.After...
View ArticleHere's What Elon Musk Thinks About The Space Projects Of Jeff Bezos And...
Click for sound.Please enable Javascript to watch this video Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, explains how he feels about competition with the founders of Amazon and The Virgin Group in the race to explore...
View ArticleIf You Feel Lazy, Blame Your Parents
As we stumble again into the season of overindulgence – that sacred time of year when wine, carbs and sofas replace brisk walks for all but the most virtuous – a headline in the (excellent) new online...
View ArticleHere's Why Republicans Will Never Reform Health Care
Philip Klein writes that Obamacare will get blamed for all sorts of problems in the American health care system, even problems that would have existed with or without the law:Given that the law was...
View ArticleThis Is A Very Difficult Time For Investors To Remain Disciplined
“Asphyxiation is a condition in which the body doesn’t receive enough oxygen.”That’s how I started my last column, in which I explained how the recent U.S. equity market highs have been creating...
View Article"For ultimate safety in coming years, it
"For ultimate safety in coming years, it will not be stocks or bonds or Picasso's or Bitcoin, but gold," writes Richard Russell of The Dow Theory Letters.Join the conversation about this story »
View ArticleThe Closest Thing To Candid Photos Of North Korea You'll Ever See
After publishing hundreds of photos from six visits to North Korea, it was an offhand comment that got French photographer Eric Lafforgue banned.Lafforgue had seen Spanish tourists wearing Kim Jung Il...
View ArticleThe 20 Most Fun Colleges In America
Higher education is certainly an opportunity to study and learn, but college can also be the most fun four years in someone's life. There's good reason for this — college is a time of seemingly endless...
View ArticleHere Are A Whole Bunch Of Reasons Why The Fed Should And Why They Shouldn't...
The Federal Reserve will hold it's next Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting from December 16-17.Among other things, they will decide whether or not to begin tapering quantitative easing, the...
View ArticleChristian Bale Is Unrecognizable In 'American Hustle' After 43-Pound Weight Gain
Christian Bale is no stranger to altering his appearance for a role.He has often shed weight for films, whittling himself down to one third of his body weight in one instance. But Bale's latest role...
View ArticleAd Exec With Cancer, Given 'Two Weeks To Live,' Posts Self-Written Obit On...
Mike Hughes, the former president of The Martin Agency, died today after a long and public battle with cancer. He was 65.Initially diagnosed with lung cancer in the 1990s, Hughes was given "two weeks...
View ArticleThe Combined Value Of The World's Stock Markets Has Reached A Record High
It's well-known that the U.S. stock market breached all-time record levels repeatedly in recent months.But what about the rest of the world?According to new data from the World Federation of Exchanges...
View ArticleGoldman's Jan Hatzius Answered 10 Questions About 2013 In January — Here's...
At the beginning of the year, Goldman Sachs' Jan Hatzius offered answers for 10 big questions regarding 2013.Today, he followed that up with what really happened.It turns out he did quite well.Here's a...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Fans Crash Duke Basketball Game To Protest Player's Suspension
Duke won't play North Carolina in Durham until March. But that didn't stop a couple of Tar Heels fans from showing up at Cameron Indoor Stadium as Duke faced Gardner-Webb.The two fans held up signs...
View ArticleFamous Math Professor Says Zuckerberg's $3 Million Math Prize Is NOT A Good Idea
On Friday, billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Yuri Milner announced a new $3 million prize for mathematics known as the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.This is the third such prize that the Valley's...
View ArticleOur Last-Minute Holiday Gadget GIF Guide
Don't worry if you still have to make some last-minute holiday purchases for the techie in your life: We've got some suggestions for you.As a follow-up to our extensive 2013 Gadget Gift Guide, we've...
View ArticleReport: Amazon Has Bought Square Competitor GoPago
Looks like Amazon has acquired mobile payments startup GoPago for an undisclosed sum, according to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.Vincenzo Di Nicola, Italian native and GoPago's cofounder and...
View ArticleBitcoin's Outlook In China Is Not Looking So Good Anymore
China's crackdown on Bitcoin has officially begun, according to Bill Bishop, the editor of the Sinocism newsletter and a New York Times contributor.Bishop is confirming this evening an earlier report...
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