Here's What London Bankers' Year-End Bonuses Will Look Like Before The New...
Bankers in the City of London are expecting bonuses of up to £125,000 on average, according to a survey of 1,500 senior City employees by the recruitment firm Astbury Marsden.Here are the numbers,...
View Article10 Things You Need To Know In Advertising Today
Good morning. Kick off the week with the most important stories you need to know from adland today.1. Facebook usage among teens has dropped from 95% in 2012 to 88% in 2014, according to a new report...
View ArticleSony Threatens To Sue Twitter For Spreading Hacked Emails (SNE, TWTR)
Sony has already threatened news outlets for reporting on information made public by hackers, and the company is now going after Twitter, too.Sony might sue Twitter because of people tweeting...
View ArticleHow A Cisco Exec Vanquished An Internet Troll And Saved 25 People (CSCO)
A few months ago, Surya Panditi was living in a nightmare but today he has happily reinvented himself as a cofounder of not one, but two, consumer tech startups.Earlier this year, he was working as...
View ArticleBYU-Memphis Bowl Game Ends With One Of The Ugliest Brawls In A Long Time
Memphis beat BYU in the Miami Beach Bowl with an interception in the second overtime. But just moments later, a huge brawl broke out that left several players bloodied.Almost immediately after the game...
View ArticleWhy Everyone Is Sending Weird Pictures And Tweets Saying 'Crave That Mineral'
In case you are scratching your head over the latest internet meme "crave that mineral" here's the skinny on where it came from.About a month ago, popular Tumblr blogger "Sixpenceee" (a college student...
View ArticleNorth Korean Hackers’ Biggest Strength May Be What They DON'T Have
Although the FBI has accused North Korea of perpetrating the recent Sony hacks, the North Korean government has denied all allegations.Whether North Korea did it or not, there’s no denying that they...
View ArticleWhy Automated Ad Buying And Real-Time Bidding Is Surging
Programmatic advertising is the automation of online ad-buying, and it's reshaping the digital media landscape. A wide majority of publishers and advertisers are already using automated ad-buying and...
View ArticleHere's North Korea's Over-The-Top Official Statement On The Sony Hack
North Korea's National Defense Commission addressed the Sony hack in a 1,722-word statement littered with poor English and spelling errors that was published by the country's official news agency,...
View ArticleArgentine Orangutan unfazed by right to freedom ruling
Buenos Aires (AFP) - Sandra the orangutan took her newfound fame in stride after an Argentine court upheld her right to be freed from a zoo, munching a melon and putting the rind on her head for the...
View ArticleThe $3 Million iPhone: How Technology Has Raised Our Standard Of Living
We've heard a lot about income inequality and the end of the middle class in the last couple of years.There's no questioning the math. You can pick from almost any chart you like, but I'll take one...
View ArticleMet Opera credit rating downgraded despite labor deal
New York (AFP) - Moody's on Monday downgraded the credit rating of New York's Metropolitan Opera, voicing concern over the ability of North America's largest classical music company to improve its...
View ArticleJapan Post to go public in September
Tokyo (AFP) - Japan Post Holdings and its banking and insurance units plan to debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in September next year, one of the nation's biggest initial public offerings, a daily...
View ArticleWanda Commercial makes trading debut in Hong Kong
Hong Kong (AFP) - Chinese shopping mall developer Dalian Wanda Commercial Properties made its trading debut in Hong Kong Tuesday after raising $3.7 billion in a record-breaking initial public...
View ArticleSix killed as lorry ploughs into Glasgow Christmas shoppers
London (AFP) - Six people were killed and eight others injured in Glasgow, Scotland on Monday when a bin lorry ploughed into crowds of Christmas shoppers in what appeared to be a tragic accident.One...
View ArticleGlobal arms treaty enters into force on Wednesday
United Nations (United States) (AFP) - A treaty laying down international rules for the $85 billion dollar global arms trade goes into force on Wednesday with campaigners vowing to make sure it is...
View ArticleInternational journalist deaths soar in 2014: press watchdog
New York (AFP) - The gruesome murders of foreign journalists by the Islamic State group contributed to 2014 being a particularly deadly year for international correspondents, an annual review by the...
View Article10 Things You Need To Know In Markets Today
Good morning! Here's what you need to know.Wall Street Closed At Record Levels. The major US indexes closed at historic highs on Monday. The Dow gained 0.9% to hit a record of 17,959.4 and the S&P...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Important Things In The World Right Now
Hello! Here's what you need to know for Tuesday.1. North Korea's Internet was restored on Tuesday after a New Hampshire-based company reported that the network completely collapsed on Monday in a...
View ArticleAustralia fears fresh attacks as Sydney mourns siege victims
Sydney (AFP) - Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Tuesday warned of heightened "terrorist chatter" in the aftermath of the fatal Sydney cafe siege and said another attack was likely, as tearful...
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