Dogecoin Is On A Gigantic Tear, And It's Not Hard To See Why
The digital currency that started as a joke is now one of the biggest digital currencies in the world.Dogecoin — which is like Bitcoin but inspired by the absurdist Doge meme — now has a "market cap"...
View Article23 CEOs To Watch In 2014
After what some would call a "lost year for tech," which also saw once-great American retailers fall from grace, we're thinking of 2014 as a glass-half-full kind of year.Apple CEO Tim Cook has promised...
View ArticleThis Fascinating GIF Shows America's Foreign-Born Population Since 1850
Reddit user CushtyJVftw created this fascinating GIF of the U.S. foreign-born population in each states since 1850.The map is a great example of taking bland statistics and making them...
View ArticleWhere To Watch The Super Bowl In New York City
Click here to see where to watch the big game >Join the conversation about this story »
View ArticleDNA Of Ancient Human Spawns New Theory Of Why Europeans Became White
The genetic analysis of a male hunter-gatherer who lived in modern-day Spain around 7,000 years ago suggests that the man had dark skin and hair, but blue eyes.Here's an artist's impression of what...
View ArticleOlive Garden Will Pay For Your Babysitter If You Eat There
Olive Garden is trying to drive sales by offering to pick up parents' babysitting tab.The struggling restaurant chain has teamed up with My Gym, a network of children's fitness centers, to provide...
View ArticleHere's What Happens When Someone Who Has Never Seen A Hamburger Tries To Eat One
The December 2008 Burger King advertisement "Whopper Virgins" is making the rounds on the Internet again, possibly because of the lead up to the Super Bowl and all this attention around original...
View ArticleThe 16 Most Creative Resumes We've Seen
In a still-sluggish job market, for many people job hunting can be a frustrating series of nos and non-responses.To combat that, many job seekers with coding and design experience go to extreme...
View ArticleBefore-And-After Pictures Show How Sochi Has Changed In The Year Leading Up...
The Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, have cost the nation nearly $50 billion, making them the most expensive Games in history.Much of the work to transform the resort town into a professional outpost...
View ArticleTapering - Assessing Damage So Far In Europe
Many fixed income, currency and equity markets in central and eastern Europe have come under sustained selling pressure in January. There are various reasons for this, but clearly the catalyst has been...
View ArticleOld Mexico Lives On
On February 2nd 1848, following a short and one-sided war, Mexico agreed to cede more than half its territory to the United States. An area covering most of present-day Arizona, California, Nevada, New...
View Article'Buy What You Know' Is A Seriously Flawed Investment Strategy
Peter Lynch made a name for himself when he turned Fidelity Investments' tiny Magellan Fund into one of the biggest and most dominant equity mutual funds in history.He quickly became very popular among...
View ArticleHere's What Happens To Super Bowl Shirts That Name The Wrong Champion
Both the Seahawks and the Broncos have already been declared Super Bowl champions on tens of thousands of t-shirts, hats, and other merchandise.That's how manufacturers fulfill the immediate post-game...
View ArticleWhy Wal-Mart Is Less Amazing Than Amazon
The world’s biggest retailer is stumbling. Its genial new boss needs to prove he can push through hard changesWALMART is at an "inflection point". Those words are truer now than when Bill Simon, the...
View ArticlePutin's Russia: Sochi Or Bust
The conspicuous dazzle of the games masks a country, and a president, in deepening troubleFEBRUARY 7th sees the opening of the winter Olympics in Sochi on the Black Sea. The message of the games is...
View ArticleGlobal Smartphone Shipments
Last year the number of smartphones shipped worldwide passed 1 billion for the first time, according to IDC, a research firm. In 2010 the four leading smartphone vendors, Nokia, Research In Motion (now...
View ArticleThe Explosion Of Global Smartphone Shipments In One Chart
Last year the number of smartphones shipped worldwide passed 1 billion for the first time, according to IDC, a research firm. In 2010 the four leading smartphone vendors, Nokia, Research In Motion (now...
View Article21 Things You Never Knew About Richard Sherman
Richard Sherman became a household name with his postgame interview with Erin Andrews after the NFC title game.In the days after the rant, America has come to see a very different side of the notorious...
View ArticleSochi Has Been Poisoning Stray Dogs Before The Olympics
The Russian government has hired a company to kill stray dogs before the Olympics, ABC News reports.Sochi has a sizeable stray dog population. Alexei Sorokin, the owner of the company hired to cull the...
View ArticleThere Are 15 NFL Cities Colder Than The Super Bowl Today
The big story leading up to this year's Super Bowl was the weather in what was supposed to be the NFL's first cold-weather Super Bowl.It turns out, if people really wanted cold weather for Super...
View Article