Malaysia Airlines Shares Tank (MAS)
Malaysia Airlines shares were down nearly 16% in Friday trading as markets digested the aftermath of one its planes going down over Eastern Ukraine.U.S. authorities say the Flight MH17, a Boeing 777,...
View ArticleThe 49ers' New Stadium Is Techie And Hipster, Just Like San Francisco
The San Francisco 49ers held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open its brand-new, $1.2 billion stadium Thursday, the Associated Press reports.Though the new facility is technically miles south of San...
View ArticleEdward Snowden Wants You To Ditch Dropbox For This Service
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden dropped his two cents on file storage security in an interview with The Guardian on Thursday.He thinks Dropbox, the cloud storage firm with over 200 million users, is...
View ArticleWhite House Calls For 'Credible' Investigation Of Malaysian Plane Crash
The White House said late Thursday it is "shocked" that a Malaysia Airlines passenger plane carrying nearly 300 people had been shot down near the Ukrainian border, urging a full and transparent...
View ArticleMalaysia Airlines Confirms The Nationalities Of 298 Passengers Aboard MH17
Malaysia Airlines has confirmed the nationalities and number of passengers onboard flight MH17, which was shot down over the Ukraine on Thursday. The majority of the 298 passengers were from the...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Important Things In The World Right Now
Good morning! Here's what you need to know for Friday. 1. A Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 298 passengers exploded and crashed in eastern Ukraine on Thursday, killing everyone on board. The flight...
View ArticleMalaysia Flight MH17 Black Box May Now Be In Moscow: Here's A Complete Update...
At least one of the "black box" flight data recorders on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 may already have been spirited away to Moscow by the pro-Russian separatist rebels who shot the plane down with a...
View ArticleRussian Stocks Tumble (DIA, SPY, SPX, QQQ, RSX)
Russian markets are tumbling again.Russia's MICEX stock index is down 1.5%.This comes after a Malaysian commercial airline was shot down in Ukrainian airspace, killing over 300 people.It appears that...
View Article10 Things In Tech You Need To Know This Morning (GOOG, MSFT, AAPL)
Good morning! We're going to have a sunny Friday here in New York. Let's look at the tech news.1. Microsoft announced plans to lay off 18,000 employees. 13,000 of those layoffs happened immediately. Of...
View ArticleIt's Now Clear Why Amazon Is Making A Phone — And Why People Will Buy It (AMZN)
Amazon's first ad for the Fire Phone makes a simple, direct pitch: Buy the phone, and you'll get videos and games from Amazon Prime for free. Simple as that.The Verge thinks it's a "strange" choice for...
View ArticleJoss Whedon Was Brutally Honest When He Saw The Original ‘Avengers’ Script
Known for TV shows with cult followings, Joss Whedon would only get involved in "Marvel's The Avengers" if he had a script he believed in. Unfortunately, that meant trashing the draft by Zak Penn that...
View Article10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell (DIA, SPY, SPX, QQQ, GOOG,...
Good morning! Here's what you need to know:MH17. U.S. intelligence believes a surface-to-air missile was fired at Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, killing the 298 people aboard. The act has been tied...
View ArticleLeona Helmsley's Former Greenwich Estate Can Be Yours For $65 Million
The Greenwich, Conn. estate of the late Leona Helmsley, the hotel tycoon who earned the nickname "Queen of Mean," is on the market for $65 million, according to Christie's International Real Estate,...
View ArticleA Fateful Thunderstorm May Have Doomed Flight MH17
When Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 went down near the Eastern Ukrainian town of Luhansk, it was roughly 300 miles off its normal course, a route that would have taken it through much safer airspace over...
View ArticleThis Flaw In The Buk Missile System Makes It Really Easy To Accidentally...
Military experts think that a Buk missile — an easy-to-use type of anti-aircraft weapon — is the most likely culprit in the destruction of a Malaysian Airlines passenger jet that's thought to have been...
View ArticleSomeone Keeps Breaking Into San Francisco Startups
Someone might be burglarizing San Francisco startups, San Francisco Chronicle reports.Two downtown San Francisco companies have reported several break-ins as recently as last week, and security footage...
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 ArticleRUSSIA EXPERT: 'Circumstantial Evidence' Will Convince The Public That Russia...
Russia is standing firm in placing blame on the Ukrainian government for Thursday's deadly attack on a Malaysia Airlines passenger plane.But a Russia political risk expert says the circumstantial...
View ArticleStakes Are High For De Blasio After 'Troubling' Smartphone Video Shows Man...
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio held a press conference Friday afternoon to address the death of a 43-year-old grandfather named Eric Garner, who died while being taken into custody on Thursday by...
View ArticleDeath Of HIV Researchers In The Malaysia Plane Crash Is An 'Incalculable Loss'
Several members of the international HIV and AIDS research community were killed when a Malaysia Airlines plane was shot down over eastern Ukraine.Reports have said that up to 100 of the passengers may...
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