It's Time To Talk About That Other Thing That Destroyed Wall Street Earnings
All of the big American Wall Street banks have reported their fourth-quarter earnings, and you can pretty much use one word to describe them — rotten.Most of the talk has centered on a full-on rout in...
View ArticleHere's Why Edward Snowden Refuses To Use An iPhone (AAPL)
The lawyer for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden says that his client never uses an iPhone because of fears about its security, Sputnik News reports.Anatoly Kucherena spoke to news agency RIA Novosti...
View ArticleWhen Marissa Mayer Became CEO Of Yahoo, She Let Thousands Of Employees Ditch...
Shortly after Marissa Mayer became CEO of Yahoo in 2012, she instituted a new smartphone policy for employees.In his book on Yahoo and Mayer's tenure as CEO there, Nicholas Carlson writes that Yahoo...
View ArticleFacebook Looks Like It Will Soon Close FBX, Social Media's First Ad Exchange
Facebook seems ready to kill off FBX, the ad exchange it launched back in 2012. In recent months it has become less and less of a priority for the company, and now it seems the market's shift to mobile...
View Article11 dead in unrest on Egypt uprising anniversary: state media
Cairo (AFP) - At least 11 people were killed in unrest in Egypt on Sunday as the country marked the fourth anniversary of its 2011 uprising, state media reported.Police and protesters clashed after...
View ArticleScientists Have Figured Out Why It Smells So Good After A Rainstorm
The source of the smell of rain was one of nature's best-kept secrets — until scientists armed with high-speed cameras got a look at it.After a rainstorm the air is perfumed with a fresh, earthy-mist...
View ArticleA Rare Glimpse Inside The Life And Mind Of Oracle CEO Mark Hurd (ORCL)
"My day starts at 4:30 a.m. and I sort of have two speeds, fast and stop," Mark Hurd quipped cheerfully when we asked about his day.We were meeting at Oracle's upscale executive offices on the top...
View ArticleHow The Secrets Of The Samurai Can Help You Achieve Laser-Focus
Sports psychologist Dr. Jonathan Fader helps professional athletes overcome adversity using techniques that rely on various types of imagery. One method incorporates elements of the approach used by...
View Article50 Popular Business Books Summarized In One Sentence Each
Since we can't all be like Warren Buffett — who famously spends much of his day reading — Business Insider has summarized 50 of the most influential business books ever written. Below, you'll find...
View ArticleThere's A Simple Reason Why Some Ideas Catch On And Others Flop
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View ArticleGreek election: LIVE REPORT
Athens (AFP) - 16:11 GMT - WELCOME to AFP's Live Report on the Greek general election, with the radical Syriza party predicted to win the largest shares of votes as hard-pressed citizens back the...
View ArticleHere's Why Etsy, The E-Commerce Company That Could IPO This Quarter, Loves...
Etsy, the e-commerce company that Bloomberg reports could IPO this quarter, has been happily based in Brooklyn, New York, since it launched in 2005. Business Insider visited the company's gorgeous...
View Article'Black Sea' Is Easily The Best 2015 Release So Far
Broken down to its parts, "Black Sea" sounds like a predictable genre thriller with a kooky twist — it's a heist film, set entirely in a submarine. But by combining elements of these classic genres,...
View ArticleFIRST GREEK ELECTION EXIT POLL SHOWS SYRIZA AHEAD
The first official exit poll in Greek election has been released showing the anti-austerity Syriza party leading with between 35.5%-39.5% of the national vote.Potentially HUGE night for SYRIZA...
View ArticleThe 9 Worst Mistakes People Make In Email Subject Lines
Whether you're applying for a job, pitching your business, or communicating with coworkers, the subject line of your email is one of the best tools you have for grabbing the reader's attention and...
View ArticleWe Had A Surprisingly Fun Conversation With Oracle CEO Mark Hurd. This Is...
In September, nearly four years to the day after joining Oracle, Mark Hurd became CEO, a job he's sharing with Oracle's other CEO, long-time finance chief, Safra Catz.We were told in no uncertain terms...
View ArticleAnti-austerity Syriza wins Greek election: exit polls
Athens (AFP) - Radical leftwing party Syriza won Greece's general election on Sunday in a victory that could impact the course of austerity in Europe, exit polls showed.Syriza took between 35.5 percent...
View ArticleJohnny Depp Has His Fifth Box-Office Bomb In A Row
It was not a good weekend for Johnny Depp.His newest movie, "Mortdecai," flopped at the box office making just $4.1 million on an estimated $60 million budget.Analyst predictions for the weekend...
View ArticleRight Now, Apple Risks Missing Out On The Next Big Thing In Technology (AAPL)
Microsoft’s 2.5-hour event on Wednesday was suddenly enlivened by the surprise introduction of the HoloLens, a new piece of hardware that will run on Windows Holographic, Microsoft’s new platform for...
View ArticleNew York And Boston Are Ready To Get Blitzed For The Blizzard
People in the path of Winter Storm Juno seem to be turning to alcohol as they get ready for what could be one of the worst blizzards New York City has ever seen.Drizly, an on-demand app for alcohol...
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