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Check Out How Bendy This Samsung TV Is
Samsung just unveiled a prototype of the world's first bendable television live at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It starts out as an 85-inch flat screen UHD TV, but then with the push of...
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BEACONS: What They Are, How They Work, And Why Apple's iBeacon Technology Is...
To state the obvious: Modern, smartphone-toting humans spend most of their time indoors. But indoor spaces often block cell signals and also make it nearly impossible to locate devices via GPS. Beacons...
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So, Who Is Janet Yellen?
UPDATE: The U.S. Senate confirmed Janet Yellen to become the 15th chair of the Federal Reserve on Monday, Dec. 6, 2014.It's looking increasingly likely that Ben Bernanke will no longer be the Chairman...
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How Tech- And Mobile-Centric Players Are Transforming The Credit Card...
Key PointsCredit and debit card payments made in physical stores add up to a huge amount of economic value — $4 trillion in transaction volume in the U.S. alone in 2013, and that volume is growing as...
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UBS: Every New Fed Chair Faces A Test
Janet Yellen has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become the next chair of the Federal Reserve.It goes without saying that she has a challenging job ahead of her.But among other things, she might...
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SAP's Top Cloud Guy Has Left Causing SAP To Reshuffle Some Software Units (SAP)
Two of SAP's top cloud executives have resigned a little more than a year after they joined the company.Both came on board as part of SAP's $4.3 billion acquisition of Ariba that closed in October,...
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Sony's New Phone Can Survive Even If You Dunk It Four Feet Under Water
Sony is pushing the concept of its waterproof smartphone to new depths. The company announced at CES today that its ultra-waterproof new smartphone, the Xperia Z1S, will be available in the U.S....
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Snapchat CEO Caught Misrepresenting His Emails With Mark Zuckerberg
Lately, the press hasn't been kind to Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel.He's been portrayed as a brute who screwed over a former friend to found Snapchat. There's a profile that paints him as a stuck-up brat....
View ArticleBrent Musburger: 'I'm Kirk Herbstreit'
Broadcasting legend Brent Musburger opened the BCS national championship game broadcast with a bit of a blunder."Good evening and welcome everybody, I'm Kirk Herbstreit along with Brent Musburger with...
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It's Official: Ford CEO Alan Mulally Says He Won't Be Microsoft's Next CEO...
Alan Mulally has officially confirmed what the world suspected. He's not leaving Ford to become Microsoft's next CEO.He has promised to stay on with Ford until at least 2014, reports the AP.The odds...
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Apple's $10 Billion In App Store Sales
Apple's App Store did $10 billion in gross revenue last year. Of that, Apple keeps $3 billion and the rest goes to developers. To put that big number in context, we've charted out the growth of App...
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How One Woman Saved Enough To Quit Her Job And Move To Paris
In early 2010, Janice MacLeod couldn't take it anymore.She wanted out of her job as a copywriter at an advertising agency. And she didn't just want a new job. She wanted to quit and move to Paris and...
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Intel Says It Will Never Use Minerals From African War Zones Ever Again
Perhaps the most impressive thing that Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced at CES, the giant tech show in Las Vegas, this week, had nothing to do with new gadgets.Rather, it was the fact that in 2014,...
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Ex-Googler Tells Us What It's Like To Be An American In North Korea
Unless you've got a few basketball superstars on your speed dial, chances are you don't know anyone who has been to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, otherwise known as as North Korea.Then...
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In Case You Need Another Crazy View Of The Polar Vortex...
Here's another view of the frigid polar vortex, this time from NOAA.That mass of blue represents the frigid temperatures that descended on Canada and parts of the United State due to a polar vortex...
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Here's Where America's 'Super Lawyers' Went To Law School
The website Online Paralegal Programs has an interesting infographic that shows where America's "Super Lawyers" attended law school in every region of the country."Super Lawyers" is a respected rating...
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WHITE HOUSE: Bob Gates Is Completely Wrong On Joe Biden
The White House pushed back on comments from former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in a new memoir late Tuesday, particularly Gates' criticism of Vice President Joe Biden on foreign policy.In his...
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Everyone's Telling Us To Forget About 10% Annual Stock Market Returns
During a presentation this morning, Nuveen's chief equity strategist Bob Doll offered his longer-term forecasts alongside his predictions for 2014. Here are his five long-term themes:Economic power...
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Yahoo Just Acquired A New Search Product That Could Hurt Google (YHOO)
Yahoo has acquired Aviate, a company that provides "contextual" app search and organization for mobile phone users, Marissa Mayer announced at CES — the huge tech conference in Las Vegas —...
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Chinese Millionaire Who Wants To Buy The New York Times Ignites Controversy...
As he geared up to sing, karaoke style, a song he had apparently authored ("My Chinese Dream") to a few dozen reporters in a conference at a hotel on Central Park South, one thing seemed about this...
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