Indians Attack Domino's Outlet Over Diplomat's Arrest In New York
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian protesters ransacked a Domino's Pizza outlet in a Mumbai suburb on Friday, demanding a ban on U.S. goods, as officials from the two countries tried to defuse a dispute over...
View ArticleThe Fed's Unexpected Tapering Announcement May Be About Concerns Over QE
Wednesday’s move by the Fed to begin tapering was accompanied by a deliberately mixed bag of contradictory statements and forecasts designed to sooth the market without actually changing much of...
View ArticleThe 'Dogs Of The Dow' Investment Strategy Is Becoming Popular Again, But It...
FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors.The 'Dogs Of The Dow' Investment Strategy Is Becoming Popular Again, But It...
View ArticleOne Of The CEOs Involved With Publicis' $100 Million Google Ad Deal Explains...
Last month, Publicis Groupe digital agencies Razorfish and DigitasLBI agreed to purchase $100 million worth of advertising inventory from Google, a bundle that will include space on YouTube, Hangouts,...
View Article"A 3%+ growth path for private sector sp
"A 3%+ growth path for private sector spending in 2014 as federal fiscal drag fades and state and local government spending has started growing points to a sustained inflection higher in the growth...
View ArticleJudge Completely Trolls Justice Scalia In Striking Down Utah's Gay Marriage Ban
When U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia handed down a scathing dissent in United States v. Windsor — the case in which the high court deemed the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional...
View ArticleMicrosoft names Jim DuBois new chief information officer
While Microsoft continues to hunt for a CEO, it did finally select 20-year Microsoft veteran Jim DuBois as its chief information officer. He's been acting as the interim CIO for the past six...
View ArticleThis Iconic Photo Of Earth Rising Over The Moon Almost Didn't Happen
On Dec. 24, 1968 — 45 years ago this Christmas eve — Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders became the first humans to leave Earth's orbit and circle the moon.The mission was...
View ArticleHarry Reid Released From Hospital
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was released from the hospital Friday evening, said his spokesman, Adam Jentleson.Reid went to the hospital early Friday morning as a precaution after he "was...
View ArticleThe British Library Is Putting Millions Of Amazing Images On Flickr That...
I really like the image above. To me, it looks like a man enjoying some kind of steam-punk device designed for using your iPad in bed. According to the British Library, however, it's a monograph from...
View ArticleHere's Why Instagram's Demographics Are So Attractive To Brands
Instagram is telling advertisers that early photo ads have generated great results, and that one client, Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, reached 9.8 million people in the U.S. aged 18 to 35 in eight days....
View ArticleThe NSA Had A Secret Deal With A Highly Influential Computer Security Firm
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - As a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the U.S. National Security Agency arranged a secret $10...
View ArticleHow Corporate Data Centers Can Mine Bitcoins After Employees Leave For The Day
Here's an interesting idea: Maybe your company could be raising extra money by using its data center to mine for bitcoins at night.The thought was half seriously suggested by Jason Langone, director of...
View ArticleGoogle Bus Protests Get Uglier As Somebody Smashes A Window (GOOG)
Protesters who gathered around a private bus transporting Google employees from Oakland to Google's Mountain View, Calif. headquarters broke a bus window on Friday.The protestors actually stopped two...
View ArticleThe Republican Party: Ticking Off The Tea Party
Daylight emerges between Republicans in Congress and ideologues outside itAS WITH many other things that happened in the 1960s, the origin of the conflict between the governing wing and the ideological...
View ArticleThe Film Business: Even Now, Nobody Knows Anything
Business in Tinseltown is as unpredictable as it was 30 years agoIN 1983, when William Goldman, a star screenwriter, revealed the inner workings of the film-making business in "Adventures in the Screen...
View Article'Anchorman 2' Is Surprisingly Very Good
"Anchorman 2" is kind of a big deal.Let me just get that out of the way.Will Ferrell's return to theaters lives up to everything you want in a sequel and more — it's funny, is chock full of celebrity...
View ArticleDon’t Believe The Hype About Ruthless Techies Invading San Francisco
Silicon Valley has been reaching its tentacles into San Francisco for some time now, just as the suburban tech companies of Puget Sound—Microsoft, Amazon, and now Google and Facebook too—infiltrated...
View ArticleChase Bank Opens Sunday To Deal With Target Credit Card Hack
NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co said it would open more than a third of its branches on Sunday to assist customers affected by the recent data breach at Target Corp.Target said on Thursday...
View ArticleMeet The Conservative Activist Behind The NSA Lawsuit That Liberals Love
Larry Klayman finally can put one in the win column. After years of unsuccessfully mounting various legal challenges to the federal government — and, in one case, suing his own mother — the...
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