Facebook Stock Added To Dow Jones S&P 500 Index
Facebook shares will be added to the Dow Jones S&P 500 Index, a portfolio of stocks considered a barometer of the market and even the overall US economy.The world's leading online social network...
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View ArticleInternet TV Service Aereo To Broadcasters: Let's Finish This War In The...
Streaming TV startup Aereo has thrown the legal gauntlet at broadcasters like Fox and CBS.Today, Aereo founder and CEO Chet Kanojia told its rivals to bring their best legal arguments to the Supreme...
View ArticleThe Latest Trendy Bar In The Meatpacking District Opened For Business Last Night
Will Malnati and Doug Jacob, the team behind Toro and Willow Road, have opened a hip new bar called backbar in New York's Meatpacking District. New World Design Builders, who worked on ABC Kitchen and...
View ArticleHere's An Android App That Can Guess What Apps You're Most Likely To Use
Cover is a new Android app that can intelligently manage the rest of your apps, intelligently bubbling up the ones you're most likely to use based on your location.We first heard about the app on...
View ArticleIncredible New Pictures Of Lakes On Saturn's Moon Titan
The Cassini spacecraft has revealed incredible images of lakes and seas made of mostly methane on Saturn's moon Titan, NASA announced at the American Geophysical Union meeting on Dec. 11.Cassini took...
View ArticleHere's The First Trailer For The Next 'Walking Dead' Video Game
We've waited awhile for this, but the first trailer for the next "Walking Dead" video game has finally been released.Last year's first installment from Telltale Games was critically acclaimed, being...
View ArticleKyoto Entrepreneur Turned 13 Stray Kittens Into A Popular Business
Cat cafes, where patrons pay to hang out with cats, have become huge in Japan and spread around the world since the first one opened in Taiwan in 1998. Adorable felines, after all, may be the one thing...
View ArticleDo Yourself A Favor And Outsource Christmas
For all its joy and good tidings, the holiday season can be one of the busiest times of the year, and particularly so for professional women, who are often the event planner, chef, and chief shopper of...
View ArticleReport: Microsoft Is Eyeing Qualcomm's Steve Mollenkopf As Its Next CEO
In the search for Microsoft's next CEO, rumor was that the board was considering someone new to the company.Now Bloomberg is reporting that the dark horse is Qualcomm COO Steve Mollenkopf.Mollenkopf is...
View ArticleHOUSE PASSES BUDGET BILL IN A BLOWOUT
The House of Representatives easily passed the budget bill that was the result of a deal brokered by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Sen.), clearing its biggest hurdle on the way to...
View ArticleIdentity Theft Now Costs Far More Than All Other Property Crimes COMBINED
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has a sobering new report finding identity theft cost Americans $10 billion more last year than all other property crimes measured by the National Crime...
View ArticleChilling Photo Shows Kim Jong-Un's Uncle As He Stands Trial For Treason
North Korea has executed Leader Kim Jong-Un's once-powerful uncle Jang Song-thaek for treason.Martyn Williams, senior correspondent at tech news site IDG, just Tweeted an image from page 2 of today's...
View ArticleWhy Afghanistan Is Such A Mess, In Two Unanswered Questions
As part of the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Afghanistan, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R., Calif.) asked three top officials two simple questions: How many Americans have died in Afghanistan...
View ArticleProtesters in Ukraine Have A Secret Weapon That Keeps Them Chanting Deep Into...
It's about 2:30 a.m. EST in Kiev, Ukraine right now.Early Wednesday morning protesters repelled a nine-hour siege from riot police, and on Thursday EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said that...
View ArticleWhy The AP Risked Exposing An American CIA Agent Missing In Iran
The AP released a bombshell report Thursday detailing the story of Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent who went missing in Iran in 2007.The story exposed a major CIA scandal — Levinson was paid to...
View ArticleVANGUARD: These Four Simple Principles Can Put Investors On The Path To Success
FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors.These Four Simple Principles Can Put Investors On The Path To Success (Vanguard)...
View ArticleTwitter Guts Its Block Feature: 'Block' No Longer Stops People From Seeing...
Twitter has dramatically changed how its "block" feature works.Blocking someone used to mean that the person was blocked from seeing your tweets.Now it means the opposite. You won't see that person's...
View ArticleAs Competitors Stumble, Nimble Storage Goes Public On Friday
The next enterprise startup to become a public company will happen on Friday.Nimble Storage plans to sell 8 million shares and raise up to $160 million. Shares will be priced between $18 and $20 a...
View ArticleThe Biggest Flops In Tech This Year (AAPL, YHOO, GOOG, MSFT)
Another year in the books! (Almost).As such, we're taking a look back at the biggest flops in consumer technology for the year. We've done this annually. It's interesting to see which companies are...
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