You Can Dunk Sony's Latest Smartphone In Water And It Still Works (SNE)
Sony unveiled its latest smartphone, the Xperia Z, at CES 2013.We got to spend some time with the the 5-inch Android-powered phone and came away very impressed.The Xperia Z is packed with the latest...
View ArticleSome Of Facebook's Best Features Were Once Hackathon Projects (FB)
It seems that almost every major feature on Facebook started as a hackathon project.Hackathons are all-night coding sessions where engineers get amped up on caffeine, brainstorm ideas, and build...
View Article13 Major Global Risks That Used To Be The Stuff Of Science Fiction
The theme of World Economic Forum's Global Risks 2013 report, just out this week, is "resilience."It includes a new a "national resilience measurement" to determine which countries are best positioned...
View Article21 Amazing Moments From The World's Most Hardcore Desert Race
Most car races last a few hours. The 24 Hours of Le Mans takes a whole day. Then there's the Dakar, the off-road endurance race open to cars, trucks, and motorcycles.Originally known as the Paris-Dakar...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Lowbrow Reality Shows Ever
Controversy has erupted over Oxygen's new in-development reality series All My Babies' Mamas, which stars rapper Shawty Lo, who has fathered 11 children by 10 different mothers.The Parents Television...
View ArticleMORGAN STANLEY WEALTH MANAGEMENT PRESENTS: The 10 Best Investments In A Year...
"The highly accommodative policy stance being pursued by the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank (ECB) and other central banks should continue to bolster financial markets in 2013 despite fiscal...
View ArticleFive Smart Financial Moves 40-Somethings Should Do Every Day
1. Open a 529If you have kids, you can’t open a 529 educational savings plan soon enough. And even if you don’t have little ones, you can open a 529 for yourself if you plan to go back to school....
View ArticleSony's Impressive 2013 Lineup Proves The Company Is Far From Obsolete (SNE)
If you listen to the critics, you'd think Sony was a dying brand.And they're mostly right. Sony is going through some tough times. However, taking a look at its booth at the Consumer Electronics Show...
View ArticleMeet The Pebble Smartwatch Everyone Went Nuts For Today
The Pebble smartwatch will begin shipping Jan. 23.Before you can get your hands on it, take a look at this photos that show off the devices design.In case you aren't familiar, Pebble is a smartwatch...
View ArticleThis 'Geolocated' Twitter Photography Is Beautiful And Surreal
Artists Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman are the brains behind an intriguing photography project that starts simply by finding interesting tweets that have location data attached to them.It's called...
View Article10 Mistakes That Turn Investors Into Their Own Worst Enemy
The hardest part of investing can be learning when to get out of your own way. As human beings, we are emotional, impressionable, and often a lot less savvy when it comes to investing than we think....
View ArticleThe 7 Most Important Oil Chokepoints In The World
"About half of the world's total oil production of nearly 90 million barrels per day is transported over water," write US Funds analysts.At some point, almost all of this seaborne oil passes through...
View ArticleThese 20 Brands Have Mastered The Use Of Instagram
When it comes to social media, brands tend to have a fairly firm grasp on how to handle Facebook and Twitter, but Instagram still appears to challenge many companies. Some brands, like American Express...
View ArticleHOUSE OF THE DAY: Kelly Ripa And Mark Consuelos List Their SoHo Penthouse For...
Manhattan's wealthy SoHo neighborhood is a favorite among celebrities, but it seems the nearby shopping and food was not enough to keep Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos from selling their New York pad.The...
View Article16 Startups Worth Risking Your Career For
Joining a startup is always risky, but some companies are better bets than others.If you pick well, you could be financially set for life.If we could have a pile of stock options in any company right...
View ArticleFrank Holmes' Massive Presentation On Why All Kinds Of Commodities Are Going...
Frank Holmes, the Chief Investment Officer at U.S. Funds, just published his market outlook for 2013.In his presentation titles More Sunshine, Less Storms, Holmes offers the key charts that underlie...
View ArticleThe True Story Of The Time The Government Printed A $100,000 Bill
A $1 trillion-dollar coin seems like a high denomination to ask the government to print.Some say its weight could sink the Titanic! (This is benightedly ludicrous).But one time, the U.S. government...
View Article11 Great Stephen Hawking Quotes For His 71st Birthday
When Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at age 21, doctors thought he’d only survive a few more years. But the theoretical physicist defied the odds: Hawking turned 71 this week...
View ArticleHomeless Tour Guides Show Visitors A Darker Side Of The City
There are a multitude of ways to experience a new city — biking, pub crawls, and museums among them.But what about through the eyes of a homeless person?A growing trend in Europe, as well as in San...
View ArticleMeg Whitman Says These New Offices Are The 'Symbolic Rebirth' Of HP (HPQ)
On January 16, HP will hold an official ribbon-cutting to open its newly remodeled customer meeting center at its headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif.This building is already home to CEO Meg Whitman, who...
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