Amazon Experimenting With Drones That Will Deliver Packages In 30 Minutes (AMZN)
Amazon is experimenting with drones that will deliver packages within 30 minutes. CEO Jeff Bezos made the announcement in a "60 Minutes" interview Sunday night with Charlie Rose. Bezos expects the...
View ArticleHSBC China PMI Beats Expectations At 50.8
HSBC China PMI came in at 50.8 in November. This was the second highest reading in eight months.This beat expectations for a reading of 50.5. And the number is modestly lower than the 50.9 print in...
View ArticleThousands Of Companies All Around The World Are Revealing The State Of The...
Each month, we take the temperature of the global economy through the purchasing managers indices (PMI) for countries' manufacturing sectors. Anything above 50 is seen as healthy. Today, we get...
View ArticleThe Best And Worst Dressed Players In The NBA
Over the past couple of seasons, NBA players have gone a little crazy with their fashion.Patterned shirts and lenseless glasses are all the rage among players like Russell Westbrook, but there are...
View ArticleTaiwan's Manufacturing Sector Sees Largest Surge In Activity In 20 Months
Taiwan's manufacturing purchasing managers index for November jumped to 53.4 from 53.0 in October, the strongest improvement since March 2012.Growth of both output and new orders both hit 20-month...
View ArticleApple Made Its Stores' Logos Red For World AIDS Day (AAPL)
In honor of World AIDS Day, Apple made the Apple logo of its major retail stores red. It's also posting a direct link on Apple.com to (RED)'s site about World AIDS Day. We have photos of Apple's stores...
View ArticleThe Pacific Northwest Is The Hottest Labor Market In The United States — Here...
Toby Dayton is the CEO of LinkUp, an online job search engine that only indexes listings posted directly on company websites.LinkUp data are being used by major investment banks on Wall Street to...
View ArticleApplebee's Will Put Tablets At Every Table Next Year
Applebee's plans to introduce tablets at every restaurant by the end of 2014, according to USA Today.Customers will reportedly be able to order appetizers and desserts, pay for food, and play video...
View ArticleThis Ad From 1926 Is The Driving Force Behind Much Of The Internet's Viral...
Up until today, no one knew for sure who was behind ViralNova, the home for sharable, clickable, viral content that takes stories circulating the news and churns them into a simple format that reaches...
View Article'Quant' Hedge Funds: Computer Says No
Hedge funds looking to spot and ride market trends are hoping for a fresh startIF SOMETHING has not worked for five years, most people would conclude that it was broken. Tell that to the geeks managing...
View ArticleCheck Out The Amazing Moment Diver Finds A Man Alive In 3-Day Old Sunk Ship
Certainly the divers charged with recovering the bodies of sailors lost in a 3-day old shipwreck never expected to find a man alive.The Jascon 4 tug had been guiding a Chevron oil tanker off the...
View ArticleRepublicans Had Better Get Comfortable With 'Happy Holidays'
Only 42% of Asian Americans are Christians. Only 24% of Asian American voters supported Mitt Romney in 2012.So maybe Republicans, who are currently seeking ways to expand their non-white voter base,...
View ArticleThese Two Simple Steps Can Help Financial Advisors Spot A Fraud
FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors.How Advisors Can Spot A Fraud (The Wall Street Journal)It is important for...
View ArticleMORGAN STANLEY: Retailers That Opened Early On Thanksgiving Had Crappy Black...
Retailers opened more stores than ever on Thanksgiving Day this year in an effort to boost holiday sales and give customers more time to take advantage of Black Friday deals. But the earlier openings...
View ArticleBig Data Will Drive The Next Phase Of Innovation In Mobile Computing
The world is awash in data.CIBC, a Canadian bank, predicts that information-generation growth will increase 50 times over the next decade. IDC, a market research firm, similarly forecasts a 44-fold...
View ArticleSalesforce.com Apologizes For Hackathon Snafu By Giving Another $1 Million...
Last week, Salesforce.com set off an uproar in the developer community when it made a decision to award a massive $1 million hackathon prize to a team of developers accused of breaking the contest...
View ArticleAmazon's Private Drone Deliveries Offer Up A Whole New Universe Of Surveillance
Amazon's Jeff Bezos has usurped Elon Musk as "most interesting" dude in tech with his announcement of 30 minute drone deliveries, Kashmir Hill of Forbes points out.Bezos' announcement largely dominated...
View ArticleMORGAN STANLEY: 4 Fundamentals Build The Foundation For US Economic...
Morgan Stanley sees the U.S. economy accelerating nicely in 2014 and 2015."We expect 2013 real GDP to expand just 1.6%Y this year, shifting to a sustained pickup in growth to 2.6%Y in 2014 and 2.7%Y in...
View ArticleBRIAN BELSKI: 'We Enter 2014 Less Optimistic Than We Have In The Past Few Years'
"We enter 2014 less optimistic than we have been in the past few years," said BMO's Brian Belski in a note to clients today. "Our models suggest mid-single-digit gains in 2014 based on slightly lower...
View ArticleHackers Are Attacking Millions Of Computers And Demanding Ransom In Bitcoins
Before you mail holiday gifts to far-away friends and relatives, back up your most important computer files. There's a scary new computer virus called CryptoLocker that was spreading like crazy in the...
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