HP Just Poached A Top Executive From Intel To Boost Its PC Division
HP has found a new executive to take on a key role for its massive Printers and Personal Systems (PPS) division. It poached Stuart Pann from Intel, sources close to the company tell Business...
View ArticleBehind The Scenes At Dropbox, Where Work Happens Between Band Practice, Boot...
Cloud storage company Dropbox recently moved its headquarters to the China Basin district of San Francisco.The 85,000-square-foot space houses around 700 employees, all sitting in an open floor plan...
View ArticleEmerging Payment Technologies Will Create New Winners And Losers In The Giant...
The credit and debit card ecosystem is much bigger than MasterCard, American Express, and Visa. Scores of companies play different roles in the system as intermediaries, most of them as merchant-facing...
View ArticleTencent's Beautiful New Campus In China Spans 6 Old Factory Buildings [PHOTOS]
Chinese internet giant Tencent recently opened brand-new offices in Guangzhou, located in the southern part of the country. Tencent is the young tech company behind WeChat, the wildly popular messaging...
View ArticleThe 7 Best Apps For Making GIFs
Great news everyone — you can now share GIFs on Twitter!Twitter announced the change last week, so your feed will probably be getting a lot more animated. And just in case you want to add your own GIFs...
View ArticleGOP Senator Pulls Off Unthinkable Win Over Tea Party Challenger In The...
Incumbent Republican Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Mississippi) has improbably survived a grueling primary challenge from Tea Party-aligned insurgent state Sen. Chris McDaniel. In what was called the nastiest...
View ArticleISIS Is Closing In On Iraq's Most Important Dam
Extremist fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are bearing down on the biggest piece of Iraq's water infrastructure, The New York Times reports. Extremist militants are beginning to...
View ArticleHere's The Shifting Trend That's Skewing Average US Home Prices
Following the recession, sales of tbe more expensive homes, those in the $200,000-$400,000 price range and higher, tumbled. Meanwhile, sales of homes under $200,000 surged.More recently, this trend...
View ArticleHere's Your First Look At Samsung's New Smartwatch
The first devices running Google's new operating system for smartwatches, Android Wear, launch this summer.Samsung gave us quick look at its first Android Wear Device, the Gear Live. The Gear Live is...
View ArticleLearnVest Founder Explains Why You Shouldn't Let Your Calendar Control Your Days
When you're running a business, it's easy to live by your calendar, that arbiter of meetings, to-dos, and deadlines. But you shouldn't, says self-professed productivity obsessive Alexa von Tobel.As...
View ArticleCHART: Few World Cup Teams Spend More Time On The Ground With Apparent...
One of the biggest criticisms of soccer and the World Cup is amount of time players spend on the ground with apparent injuries. Geoff Foster of the Wall Street Journal took a look at the first two...
View ArticleEmails Reveal Former IRS Official At Center Of Scandal Suggested Targeting A...
Former IRS official Lois Lerner suggested referring U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) for an audit in 2012, according to new emails released by the Republican-controlled House Ways and Means Committee...
View ArticleFacebook Disclosed Its Diversity Numbers, And They're Pretty Bad
Tech companies have been releasing their diversity numbers recently, and Facebook is the latest to reveal its stats. And the numbers are hardly surprising based on what we've seen so far from Yahoo and...
View ArticleGoogle Figured Out How To Turn Any Phone Into A Virtual Reality Headset For...
At the end of Google I/O, Google's annual developers conference on Wednesday, Android boss Sundar Pichai announced that audience members would be getting some swag. Among the takeaways: A piece of...
View ArticleGoogle Partners With Samsung And Takes Shots At Microsoft To Win Over...
Google showed off a bunch of new products for business users on Wednesday at its Google I/O developers conference.Here's the rundown:Drive for Work: For $10/user/month businesses can get unlimited...
View ArticleSomeone Copied The Yo App And Called It Hey
Yo, the bite-sized messaging app that only lets you send your friends a "Yo" notification, already has a competitor called Hey.Competitor might be too generous of a description, because everything...
View ArticleCLIFF ASNESS: I Am Still A Net Cynic When It Comes To Stock Picking
FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors.ASNESS: I Am Still A Net Cynic When It Comes To Stock Picking (Morningstar)...
View ArticleGoPro Goes Public Thursday And Shares Are Priced At $24
Camera company GoPro will hold its IPO Thursday morning. On Wednesday night, the company initially priced its shares at $24.GoPro makes video cameras that can clip on just about anything and record HD...
View ArticleCable Industry Analyst: 'Aereo Is Far From Dead'
With the Supreme Court ruling that Aereo's business model is illegal— that it can't grab broadcast television from the airwaves and pipe them over the internet — the question is: what will happen to...
View ArticleThese Are Teens' Favorite E-Commerce Sites
More teenagers are going online to shop than ever before — especially boys. 86% of teen boys shopped online this spring, compared to just 78% in spring 2012. Meanwhile, 76% of teen girls shopped online...
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