The Best Management Advice From 'The Art Of War'
"The Art Of War" is one of the most famous books of all time, said to be written by the legendary Chinese general Sun Tzu around the fifth century B.C.Some of the advice is pretty narrowly focused and...
View ArticleLambeau Field Looks Like An Actual Frozen Tundra Right Now
The much-anticipated Packers-49ers game is underway in Green Bay, and it's just as gloriously cold as we anticipated.It was 5 degrees at kickoff, with a wind chill of -10 degrees. That's plenty cold,...
View Article'Small Town Shallow Pockets': Here Are The Crude Names Data Companies Use To...
Last month, a Senate Committee report lambasted "data brokers" for preying on the poor by selling information that highlights which segments of the population are most financially vulnerable.On the...
View ArticleApple Is 'Actively Seeking' Candidates To Diversify Its Extremely White, Male...
Apple is moving to diversify its board in response to mounting shareholder criticism.Bloomberg reports that Apple, a notoriously homogeneous company at its highest levels, recently added language to...
View ArticleThis Safe Driving Ad From New Zealand Will Give You The Chills
What if two drivers could share their final thoughts in the seconds before a horrendous car accident?A new ad from the New Zealand Transport Agency makes this dialogue happen. A man pulls out into an...
View ArticleThe 10 Greatest Risks To Global Stability In 2014
The Eurasia Group is out with its annual Top 10 Risks of 2014, and it seems that for the first time since 2008, geopolitical fears top economic ones."The realities of a G-Zero order, a world of...
View ArticleAustralian University Forced To Take Back 400 Scholarships That Were...
An Australian university was forced to apologize to 400 students after it mistakenly offered them scholarships, which have since been withdrawn, ABC News reports.One University of Queensland...
View ArticleSamsung Has Two New Incredibly Powerful Galaxy Tablets
Samsung announced today that it has four new high-end tablets aimed at the enterprise and professional market. They're called the Galaxy NotePRO and Galaxy TabPRO tablets, and they come in variations...
View ArticleAmazon Says It Has 20 Million Prime Members (AMZN)
Amazon has confirmed that it has 20 million subscribers to its Prime service, Ben Schachter at Macquarie reports in a new note.Amazon had been hammered by the press for never giving out specific data...
View ArticleJerry Seinfeld Hints At ‘Huge’ Project With Larry David During Reddit AMA
Since collaborating on hit show "Seinfeld," Larry David went on to create and star in HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" while Jerry Seinfeld is in the midst of the second season of his show "Comedians In...
View ArticleThere's A Huge Economic Debate About 2013 — And Paul Krugman Is At The Center
Students of economics looked to 2013 with particular glee because, as luck would have it, the year was poised to settle the longstanding debate between two colliding schools of thought about monetary...
View ArticleThis Map Shows How People Around The World Think About America
The Pew Research Global Attitudes Project tracks public opinion around the world on a number of subjects. In early 2013, they asked people in 39 countries whether they had a favorable or unfavorable...
View ArticleYale Professor Found Dead In Jail Cell Reportedly Died From A Meth-Induced...
Deceased Yale University professor Samuel See — who was found dead in a New Haven, Conn. jail cell in November — died from a heart attack caused by methamphetamine he consumed, the New Haven...
View ArticleWhy Analysts Are Freaked Out By Twitter's Stock
At the end of November, for no apparent reason, Twitter's stock went on a massive run. It hit $73.30 on December 26, an 88% increase from its low point on November 28th.It's fallen back to $66 after a...
View ArticleESPN Aired A Bizarre Puff-Piece Promoting Tim Tebow's Abilities As A Quarterback
During "Sunday NFL Countdown," ESPN broke from previewing the NFL playoffs to air a 5-minute segment on Tim Tebow's quest to get back to the NFL as a quarterback (see video below).For the segment,...
View ArticleHere's The Problem With Marc Andreessen's $100 Billion Case For Snapchat
Social Media Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today.A BIG...
View ArticleJetBlue Has Stranded Passengers In Barbados, And There's Little It Can Do To...
With a string of abysmal weather around its biggest airports during the holiday travel season, JetBlue has been dealt a rotten hand this week.After canceling hundreds of flights, the airline has...
View ArticleSoon, Your Smartphone Screen Will Be Able To Kill Bacteria
Corning announced a new antimicrobial cover version of its popular Gorilla Glass, the sturdy glass used in many smartphone touchscreens.According to Corning, this is the first EPA-registered product of...
View ArticleThe Murray-Ryan Budget Deal Is A Setback For The Medicaid Expansion
The Murray-Ryan deal includes a change to an obscure Medicaid policy called disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments that will make it much more difficult for supporters of the Medicaid expansion...
View ArticleWatch A Water Bottle Freeze Within Seconds Of Being Exposed To The Midwest's...
We've already seen how the Midwest's epic frigid temperatures are causing boiling water to instantly turn to snow and to create an incredible steam effect on Lake Michigan.Now check this one out, via a...
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