11 Startups We Wish Existed
Seems like there's a startup for everything these days, and yet somehow the solution we're really aching for just hasn't been created yet.We decided to put together a list of the startups we wish...
View ArticleHere's How The Wealthiest People In Tech Will Spend Their Summers
Summer is the time for relaxing, taking a vacation, and traveling with friends and family. But "vacation" means something a little different when you're a tech millionaire or billionaire. From massive...
View ArticleFinally There's An iPhone With Vladimir Putin's Face On It — And It's Only...
iPhone are so ubiquitous these days. What you really want is something to set your phone apart from the crowds. A gold-plated iPhone, perhaps. With Vladimir Putin's face emblazoned on the back.Such a...
View ArticleHow A Norwegian Statistician Turned Snack Time Into The Most Popular Food...
Norwegian photographer Ida Skiveness makes some of the most playful, creative food porn you'll ever see.With more than 226,000 followers, her Instagram profile (@idafrosk) is the most popular...
View ArticleTHE SNAPCHAT REPORT: Audience Numbers, Demographics, And Brands' Early...
Snapchat has cultivated a unique identity as a smartphone-only social network and messaging platform focused around images and videos. The app has emerged as an everyday communication tool for millions...
View ArticleHere's The Full List Of Picks From The 1st Round Of The NBA Draft
The first round of the 2014 NBA Draft is complete.This is expected to be the best, deepest NBA Draft since LeBron's famous draft in 2003. Kansas center Joel Embiid had long been thought to go No. 1...
View ArticleRichard Branson's 5 Secrets To Starting A Successful Business
Richard Branson opened a small record shop called Virgin Records in 1970. He had dropped out of high school a few years prior, and his only other business experience was running his own magazine.Today,...
View ArticleHere Are 10 Apple Patents We Want To See Become A Reality
“We are going to patent it all,” Apple co-founder Steve Jobs reportedly told his team in 2006, according to Fred Vogelstein’s book “Dogfight.”Since then, Apple’s policy on intellectual property has...
View ArticleVerizon Wireless Is Having Issues
For more than 24 hours, Verizon Wireless has been experiencing problems across the U.S., according to The Verge. While calls and data service on phones has not been affected, customers have been...
View ArticleEven With Twice As Many Users, Google Still Lags Apple In App Revenue (AAPL,...
At Google's developer conference, it said it paid $5 billion to developers in the past 12 months. Independent analyst Jan Dawson charted out his estimate of what that looks like on a quarterly basis,...
View ArticleAdvisors Can Actually Tell Some Investors To Take Social Security Benefits Early
FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors.Why Some Investors Should Take Social Security Benefits Early (Wall Street...
View ArticleWhy The New US Tax Law Going Into Effect July 1 Is Overkill
America's new law on tax compliance is heavy-handed, inequitable and hypocritical.In the depths of recession in 2010, a jobs-obsessed Congress passed the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act....
View ArticleCredit Growth Continues To Boom
The best economic data can sometimes surface when the market isn't looking.The weekly H.8 report from the Federal Reserve, which shows the assets and liabilities of commercial banks in the U.S., is...
View ArticleThe Kurds May Want To Rethink Independence — Unless They Want To Anger Iran
As Iraq continues to fracture along ethnic and sectarian lines, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq seems to be holding a winning hand. The Kurdish Peshmerga force have taken...
View ArticleThe Digital Society Of The Future Is Happening Now In Estonia
A national identity scheme goes global.THE founders of the internet were academics who took users' identities on trust. When only research co-operation was at stake, this was reasonable. But the lack...
View ArticleFewer Than 25% Of Android Phones Will Work With Google’s New Smartwatches (GOOG)
At its developer conference Wednesday, Google announced several new Android Wear smartwatches.Business Insider's Steve Kovach thought they are too much like having your smartphone on your wrist, but...
View ArticleElon Musk Is Opening A New Front In His Lawsuit Against The Air Force
Elon Musk's SpaceX is deploying a new argument in his challenge of an Air Force contract the government awarded to a aerospace firm.This week, SpaceX filed an amended complaint alleging that United...
View ArticleT-Mobile Employees Speak Out And Call CEO's Recent Rape Comments 'Violent'...
Five T-Mobile call center employees in Albuquerque, New Mexico, have written an open letter to the company's CEO, John Legere, admonishing him for recent comments at a press event where he said Verizon...
View ArticleChina's Crackdown On Corruption May Now Be Weighing On Growth
Chinese president Xi Jinping began a crackdown on corruption soon after he came to power.During the leadership transition in late 2012, outgoing president Hu Jintao had warned that corruption "could...
View ArticleMonkey Parking Promises It's Totally Legal And Ignores The City Of San Francisco
The latest development in the war for public parking in thr Bay Area: startup Monkey Parking is completely ignoring San Francisco's cease-and-desist letter from earlier this week.Today the Italian...
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