Warren Buffett Once Bought A Company From An Uneducated Russian Immigrant...
Unaudited financial statements can be scary things.But that didn't stop Warren Buffett from buying one tiny furniture company in 1983.Buffett shared the sweet success story in his new annual letter to...
View Article5 Questions For Market Strategist Jeffrey Kleintop
Business Insider is offering a new feature in our "10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell" email newsletter where we interview top strategists, economists, and traders to get their thoughts...
View Article8 The Off-Grid Gadgets You'll Need To Survive The Zombie Apocalypse
Scientific supply company Optics Planet sells a survival kit for the zombie apocalypse. It's called the ZERO Kit (which stands for Zombie Extermination, Research, and Operations, of course) and if you...
View ArticleRANKED: The Best Smartphones In The World (VZ, T, DT, S)
Welcome to smartphone launch season.Samsung has already announced its new flagship phone, and more from HTC and Nokia are reportedly on the way.If you need to buy a new device now, here are the best...
View Article1860s Movie Critic Jebidiah Atkinson Slams Oscars During Colin Jost's...
"Saturday Night Live" cast member Taran Killam resumed his harsh, 1860s newspaper critic character "Jebidiah Atkinson" on "Weekend Update," just in time to slam Oscar-nominated films."I've been witness...
View ArticleHundreds Of Gunmen Surround Ukraine Military Base In Crimea
PEREVALNE, Ukraine (AP) — Hundreds of armed men in trucks and armored vehicles surrounded a Ukrainian military base Sunday in Crimea, blocking its soldiers from leaving. The outnumbered Ukrainians...
View ArticleMohamed El-Erian Has A Fascinating Theory For Why Companies Aren't Spending...
Why aren't businesses investing more?It's a question people have been asking for years, as profits keep pushing towards record levels, and corporate cash keeps piling up, while yielding very little.In...
View ArticleAbraham Lincoln Had A Brilliant Strategy For Dealing With Setbacks
What was the secret of Abraham Lincoln’s success in dealing with people?Incredibly, this is not just a question that a business journalist would ask. Dale Carnegie himself — the author of How to Win...
View ArticleNervous White Actors Audition For '12 Years A Slave' On 'SNL'
This weekend's "Saturday Night Live" took the liberty of re-imagining what the uncomfortable "12 Years A Slave" audition process may have been like."We sought out to discover raw talent through open...
View ArticleROBERT SHILLER: Forget Bitcoin, Here's The Real Way Technology Can...
Yale Professor and Nobel Laureate Robert Shiller has a great piece in the New York Times today that shows why he's one of the greatest economic thinkers of our time.The piece is kind of a about Bitcoin...
View ArticleMiami Is Wall Street South — Here's Why
Miami is attracting the LeBron James of Wall Street, the Dwyane Wade of Greenwich equity, and the Chris Bosh of Boston — financial titans who are relocating to pay less in taxes and maintain a luxury...
View ArticleHere's How A CEO Evaluates Job Candidates On Social Media
What you do on Facebook may be more influential to your job search than what you say on your resume, according to Shon Burton, founder and CEO of recruiting platform HiringSolved.Burton says he breaks...
View ArticleKickstarter Has Raised Over A Billion Dollars To Date
Fundraising platform Kickstarter has been in operation since April 2009, and today, just under five years later, it raised its one billionth dollar for users seeking money to bring everything from...
View ArticleHow Putin's Invasion Of Ukraine Already Cost The Russian Central Bank $10...
The Central Bank of Russia has been forced to intervene in the foreign exchange market today to stem the decline of the Russian ruble, which tanked Monday following an escalation of military tensions...
View ArticleThe New Tampa Bay Bucs Uniforms Are Ugly
Here are the new Tampa Bay Buccaneers uniforms.Oversized helmet logo. Strange number design — red digital clock-inspired digits with a reflective border.Not a fan:From the Nike press release:"Custom...
View Article7 Email Hacks In Microsoft Outlook That Gmail Users Can Only Dream About
<div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div> After all these years, Microsoft Outlook is still the standard for email in the workplace. It's deep, complex, and has a ton of...
View ArticleChrysler Sales Grow, Ford And GM Tumble (F, GM)
Heads up! This morning, U.S. automakers will report vehicle sales for the month of February.Chrysler Group reported vehicle sales up 11%, Bloomberg reports. Economists were expecting 8.8%.GM sales fell...
View ArticleAndreessen Fires Back At Icahn
A written war has been raging on between activist investor Carl Icahn and eBay. Icahn has been shredding eBay's board of directors, in particular Marc Andreessen, questioning his loyalty to the company...
View ArticleWhat A Typical Day Is Like For A Rich Kid Of Instagram
When you're parents are so rich you don't have to work, what do you do all day?Morgan Stewart's parents made a killing in real estate so she doesn't need to work like most of her friends. She spends...
View ArticleWashington Post Editorial Destroys Obama's Foreign Policy As 'Based On Fantasy'
The Washington Post's editorial board criticized President Barack Obama on Monday for what it called a view of foreign policy "based on fantasy," amid the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.The editorial board...
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