The Mysterious $50 Million Investor In Snapchat Is Hedge Fund Coatue
Coatue Management is the mystery investor behind Snapchat's new $50 million round of financing.In fact, it's the only investor in this round of financing.This is the second major startup deal Coatue...
View Article2013's Most Viral Videos And Pop Culture Moments Mashed Up In One Awesome...
DJ Earworm is at it again with a new mashup video tribute to this year's most viral videos and the best of pop culture.Clearly that includes prancersizing, Jimmy Kimmel pranks, Dove commercials, the...
View ArticleUruguay Is Facing Down The UN Over The Future Of Drug Laws
This week, the small South American nation of Uruguay did something that made opponents of the drug war all over the world rejoice: It legalized the sale and consumption of marijuana for recreational...
View ArticleThe Budget Deal Will Make Air Travel More Expensive
The budget deal reached by negotiators in Washington this week is good news for the economy, but not so much for airlines.The deal, which still has to pass both houses of Congress but is supported by...
View ArticleHow To Play The Fastest Growing iPhone Game Of All Time
Do you know who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1941? Can you guess how many times the Boston Celtics have won the NBA championships?I couldn't until I started playing QuizUp.This incredibly fun app,...
View ArticleTwitter Reveals The Most Retweeted Message Of 2013
Twitter revealed Thursday that a message acknowledging the death of "Glee" television show star Cory Monteith was the most reposted tweet on the globally popular messaging platform this year."Thank you...
View ArticleHOUSE OF THE DAY: Director Michael Bay Lists His Beautiful Hilltop Home For...
The eccentric producer-director behind "Transformers" and "Armageddon" is selling his three-story contemporary home at a $13.5 million listing price, real estate blogger The Real Estalker reports.The...
View ArticleCheck Out The Incredible Revenue Growth Of Japanese Messaging App LINE
Japanese messaging company LINE is really big. How big? Almost as big as Twitter. Here's another cool chart from analyst Benedict Evans that looks at LINE's revenue.It's just over $160 million in Q3....
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View ArticleIt's Shockingly Easy To Buy A Gun Online Without A Background Check
Bipartisan coalition Mayors Against Illegal Guns is going after firearms classifieds site Armslist.com in a new report that says the website is creating a massive, unregulated Internet weapons...
View ArticleInternet TV Service Aereo To Broadcasters: Let's Finish This War In The...
Streaming TV startup Aereo has thrown the legal gauntlet at broadcasters like Fox and CBS.Today, Aereo founder and CEO Chet Kanojia told its rivals to bring their best legal arguments to the Supreme...
View ArticleThe Latest Trendy Bar In The Meatpacking District Opened For Business Last Night
Will Malnati and Doug Jacob, the team behind Toro and Willow Road, have opened a hip new bar called backbar in New York's Meatpacking District. New World Design Builders, who worked on ABC Kitchen and...
View ArticleHere's An Android App That Can Guess What Apps You're Most Likely To Use
Cover is a new Android app that can intelligently manage the rest of your apps, intelligently bubbling up the ones you're most likely to use based on your location.We first heard about the app on...
View ArticleIncredible New Pictures Of Lakes On Saturn's Moon Titan
The Cassini spacecraft has revealed incredible images of lakes and seas made of mostly methane on Saturn's moon Titan, NASA announced at the American Geophysical Union meeting on Dec. 11.Cassini took...
View ArticleHere's The First Trailer For The Next 'Walking Dead' Video Game
We've waited awhile for this, but the first trailer for the next "Walking Dead" video game has finally been released.Last year's first installment from Telltale Games was critically acclaimed, being...
View ArticleKyoto Entrepreneur Turned 13 Stray Kittens Into A Popular Business
Cat cafes, where patrons pay to hang out with cats, have become huge in Japan and spread around the world since the first one opened in Taiwan in 1998. Adorable felines, after all, may be the one thing...
View ArticleReport: Microsoft Is Eyeing Qualcomm's Steve Mollenkopf As Its Next CEO
In the search for Microsoft's next CEO, rumor was that the board was considering someone new to the company.Now Bloomberg is reporting that the dark horse is Qualcomm COO Steve Mollenkopf.Mollenkopf is...
View ArticleHOUSE PASSES BUDGET BILL IN A BLOWOUT
The House of Representatives easily passed the budget bill that was the result of a deal brokered by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Sen.), clearing its biggest hurdle on the way to...
View ArticleIdentity Theft Now Costs Far More Than All Other Property Crimes COMBINED
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has a sobering new report finding identity theft cost Americans $10 billion more last year than all other property crimes measured by the National Crime...
View ArticleChilling Photo Shows Kim Jong-Un's Uncle As He Stands Trial For Treason
North Korea has executed Leader Kim Jong-Un's once-powerful uncle Jang Song-thaek for treason.Martyn Williams, senior correspondent at tech news site IDG, just Tweeted an image from page 2 of today's...
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