The 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 ArticleYour Facebook Status Updates Can Reveal Dark Aspects Of Your Personality
If you think your friend might be a narcissist, investigating their Facebook status updates could reveal the truth.According to a new study published online in October in the journal Personality And...
View ArticleHere's Why You Shouldn't Freak Out About A Stock Market Bubble
Is the stock market a bubble?Liz Ann Sonders doesn't think so."The growing cries that we've reached sentiment or valuation extreme worthy of past tops, or a bubble at its bursting point, seems a bit...
View ArticleOne In Three Children In The World Have No Birth Certificate
One in three children worldwide cannot have their existence legally verified with a birth certificate since their birth was not registered, UNICEF warned Wednesday.Almost 230 million youngsters under...
View ArticleHere's How To Make Sure Your Tweets Go Viral
If you're looking to up your Twitter game, TrackMaven just released a study that may be able to help you.According to the study, researchers scoured over 1,423 Twitter accounts and 1.7 million tweets...
View ArticleUnderstanding Facebook's FBX — Social Media's First Ad Exchange
Facebook launched FBX — the first-ever social media real-time bidding (RTB) ad exchange — in June 2012 to let advertisers buy Facebook ad inventory that retargets users based on their past online...
View Article21 Bizarre Pictures From China’s Theme Park Full Of World Landmarks
Before British photographer Luke Casey settled in Hong Kong, he spent three and a half months traveling by boat. It was only later that he realized how much faster he could see the world — sort of — by...
View Article10 Ads That Companies Were Forced To Apologize For In 2013
It's widely believed in marketing circles that the era of "the campaign"— a specific media push around a single theme —is over, and brands instead need to be having a conversation with customers...
View ArticleCisco's New Cloud Project, Code-Named 'Cloud Fusion,' Could Thwart The NSA...
Like all the big enterprise tech vendors these days, Cisco's got plans to grab a share of the expanding cloud computing market.For the most part, Cisco isn't selling cloud services directly to...
View ArticleAP Photojournalist Blasts Obama's Press Restrictions As 'Orwellian Image...
A photojournalist for the Associated Press is pulling no punches in a scathing opinion piece published today in The New York Times, referring to the restrictions on press photographers covering the...
View ArticleRANKED: The Most Innovative Smartphones Of 2013 (VZ, T, DT, S)
Forget about who makes the best smartphone. What company is innovating the most? While there were dozens of new smartphone launches this year, a handful of devices experimented with new features that...
View ArticleLockdown Lifted At American University After Reports Of Gunman On Campus
The campus of American University in Washington, D.C. went into lockdown Wednesday evening as police checked on a report of an armed man on campus, AP reported.The lockdown was lifted was lifted around...
View ArticleIn Four Months, PayPal Founder Max Levchin Helped 1,000 Women Get Pregnant
Glow, the fertility app that helps a woman get pregnant, was officially released a little over four months ago. Today Glow said over 1,000 women have successfully used the app to get pregnant, reports...
View ArticleThese 9 Mobile Game Companies Got Over $100 Million In Sales In 2013
Have you ever noticed how everyone you know has "Candy Crush Saga" and at least one variation of "Angry Birds" on their phone?The rise of free apps supported by in-app purchases has led to a seemingly...
View ArticleFacebook Stock Added To Dow Jones S&P 500 Index
Facebook shares will be added to the Dow Jones S&P 500 Index, a portfolio of stocks considered a barometer of the market and even the overall US economy.The world's leading online social network...
View ArticleGrizzlies Star Left His Bench During Game To Give A Gift To A Special Needs...
Late in the fourth quarter of the Memphis Grizzlies loss to the Golden State Warriors, All-Star forward Zach Randolph proved there is never a bad time to show some love for young fans.Randolph was seen...
View ArticleThe 5 Worst TV Shows Of 2013
More than 30 new shows premiered this fall and while some took off — “The Blacklist,” “Masters of Sex,” and "Sleepy Hollow"— many of them fell flat.After seeing NBC’s “Community” — a gem that is far...
View ArticleWhy The Budget Deal Is Way More Important Than Most People Realize
The conventional wisdom of the Murray-Ryan budget deal is that it's a small agreement - a ceasefire between the parties - but the implications of it are much greater than anyone imagines.On its policy...
View ArticleWatch This Film To See How Ninjas Are Fighting Off Villainous Superbugs
This post is sponsored by IBM.We've all heard about "superbugs"— strains of drug-resistant bacteria that plague hospitals, gyms, and schools. When antibiotics fail, the results can be deadly.According...
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