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Here's What The Chinese Bond Market Looks Like
A Chinese solar company just announced that it will miss an CNY89.9 million interest payment on a CNY1 billiion bonds. Currently $1.00 equals 6.13 Chinese Yuan (CNY).This marks the first major default...
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Flipboard Just Bought CNN’s News Reader App Zite For $60 Million
Popular news reader application Flipboard has acquired a similar app owned by CNN, Zite, in a $60 million deal. CNN's Laurie Segall just broke the news.Zite was acquired by CNN in 2011 for a little...
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Food Has Never Been More Affordable
Americans have been spending less and less of their disposal income on food, American Enterprise Institute's Mark Perry points out in a new post.Perry credits "innovation, technological advances, and...
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The Winklevoss Twins Are Going Into Outer Space And They're Paying In Bitcoin
The Winklevoss Twins are going into outer space.Tyler Winklevoss just posted on Twitter that he and his brother will be paying in Bitcoin to ride Virgin Galactic into outer space.They just put up a...
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Chanel Just Created The Fanciest Grocery Store Of All Time
Chanel's runway show yesterday was one of the most creative the fashion industry as ever seen. For the presentation at Paris Fashion Week, the brand created an intricate grocery store. Every single...
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What Animal Has The Biggest Mouth In The World? [POP QUIZ]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration tweeted a fun pop quiz this morning (which I flunked).What animal has the biggest mouth in the world?Hint: This animal can also live more than 200...
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AMERICAN SERVICE-SECTOR HIRING GOES NEGATIVE
The results of the Institute for Supply Management's monthly survey of American services-sector firms are out.The report's headline index fell to 51.6 from January's 54.0 reading, missing economists'...
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These Gifs Show How Easy It Is To Sell Reserved Seating Tickets With...
Eventbrite, the San Francisco startup run by husband and wife team Kevin and Julia Hartz, just launched a suite of tools event-organizers can use to sell reserved seating.Eventbrite sent us a bunch of...
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Former US Women's Soccer Coach Had The Perfect Answer When Asked If She Could...
Swedish soccer player Henrik Rydström recently said that he hoped former U.S. Women's National Soccer Team coach Pia Sundhage would become the next coach of his Swedish club, Kalmar.When Sundhage, a...
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One Man In The Department Of Defense Controls All Of Hollywood's Access To...
If Hollywood wants to make a movie about anything having to do with the military, there is one man they have to woo first: Phil Strub, entertainment liaison at the Department of Defense since...
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Steve Ballmer Got Into A Huge Shouting Match With Microsoft's Board Before...
Businessweek has a long profile out today about Steve Ballmer's final months as Microsoft CEO last year. The story gives us a better idea of why Ballmer decided to announce his retirement a few years...
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Stop Panicking — Chipotle Will Not Stop Serving Guacamole
Don't panic about reports that climate change could threaten guacamole at Chipotle.Emily Atkin at ThinkProgress.org noted yesterday that the company's latest annual report discloses that guacamole and...
View ArticleConan O'Brien Will Host The 23rd Annual 'MTV Movie Awards'
Conan O'Brien has announced that he will be hosting the 23rd Annual MTV Movie Awards. He made the announcement last night on Conan. The ceremony is scheduled to take place at the Nokia Theatre in L.A....
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Democratic Congressman Goes Ballistic At IRS Hearing
Rep. Elijah Cummings, the Democratic ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, flipped out at Republican Chairman Darrell Issa during a hearing on the IRS' targeting of certain conservative...
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The Reporter Who Found The Bitcoin Creator Is Answering Some Of The Biggest...
Leah McGrath Goldman has the story of the morning, writing in Newsweek she believes she figured out the identity of the inventor of Bitcoin.We wrote about why the response to the story in the Bitcoin...
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Shaq Will Follow You On Instagram If You Fund His New Video Game For $500
Shaquille O'Neal has teamed up with gaming studio Big Deez Productions to launch a campaign on Indiegogo aimed at making a sequel to the 1994 fighting game, Shaq-Fu.The original 90s version was a...
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Paul Ryan Denies There's A 'Civil War' In The Republican Party
Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan said rumors of a "civil war" tearing apart the Republican Party are greatly exaggerated in his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md....
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The 10 Most Overpriced Cities In America
Congrats, New Yorkers. You live in the most overpriced city in the U.S.Forbes is out with the 2014 edition of its list, "America's Most Overpriced Cities," and New York and Honolulu are tied for first...
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Here Are All The Reasons Tablets Should Matter More To E-Commerce Retailers...
Smartphone shopping is increasingly important to large "multichannel" retailers— those retailers with both offline and online stores.But for those businesses primarily focused on making online retail...
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Why The Founder Of Bitcoin Can't Spend His Fortune
The formerly unknown creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, appears to have been identified.Creating your own digital currency puts you in a place to make a lot of money if the currency catches on, and...
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