Survivors Of '93 Train Massacre In New Documentary: 'The Aisles Were...
Lisa Combatti Twenty years ago this week, a mass shooting on a Long Island Railroad train left six dead and 19 wounded, and survivors of the massacre have spoken in a new documentary about the terror...
View ArticleBox CEO Aaron Levie Confirms He Raised A Whopping $100 Million At A $2...
Box CEO Aaron Levie See Also Yes, Box raised another $100 million of investment and is now officially worth $2 billion. As we previously reported, Box had filed the paperwork for a $100 million round...
View ArticleThe Secret Memo That Led To The James Bond Movies
A very interesting piece of memorabilia showed up in The Daily Mail today. It's the secret memo that eventually led to the James Bond movies. A lot of people forget this, but Bond creator, Ian...
View ArticleThe Store Of The Future Could Have No Human Interaction
Retail stores are quickly adapting to modern advances like smartphones. This awesome graphic by Canada-based PROFIT Magazine shows what a retail transaction might look like in the near future. The...
View ArticleGun Control Group Releases Chilling New Ad Ahead Of The Newtown Shooting's...
Moms Demand Action and Mayors Against Illegal Guns have joined forces to release a new, chilling ad one-year anniversary of the Newtown shooting. The ad features the sound of a ticking clock with...
View ArticleHow UK Newspapers Paid Tribute To Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black president who spent nearly three decades in jail, died last night aged 95. Newspapers in the United Kingdom had front page tributes ready within hours,...
View ArticleLebron James Will Co-Star In An Upcoming Film With Kevin Hart
See Also LeBron James confirms he'll co-star in movie "Ballers" with Kevin Hart CHICAGO (AP) — LeBron James is taking his game to the silver screen. The Miami Heat superstar confirmed reports before...
View ArticleWatch This Amazing 'Star Wars' Parody Of 'Bohemian Rhapsody'
At long last, there’s a Star Wars parody of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.” It was filmed by the Digital video students in UAT who apparently had nothing better to do than (they are in Tempe, Arizona,...
View ArticleFour Reasons Why Shanghai Just Had Its Worst Smog Day Of All Time
A reader sent us the above before-and-after photo from his office in Shanghai. The clear picture on the right is from mid-October. The photo on the left is from today. According to various measures,...
View ArticleThe Simple Reason Why The Seattle Mariners Are Suddenly One Of Baseball's...
The Seattle Mariners made the first big splash of baseball's hot stove season by agreeing to a $240 million contract with Robinson Cano, the third largest contract in baseball history. While the...
View ArticleThe 18 Best Startups That Launched In 2013
Features Startup Get Alerts for these topics » Advertisement: Join The Discussion OR Login With Facebook Login With Twitter Login With Google Submit the comment for Insider Status Insiders 0 All...
View ArticleCEO Dick Costolo Reveals Who He Wishes Was On Twitter
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo sat down with the Today Show's Matt Lauer this morning to chat about Twitter. The service has about 232 million active users, but Costolo admitted who he wishes used Twitter:...
View ArticleAdventurer Who Inspired James Franco Movie '127 Hours' Arrested For Domestic...
Author and subject of the film Aron Ralston attends the "127 Hours" film premiere at Chelsea Clearview Cinema on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 in New York. DENVER (AP) — Aron Ralston, who cut off his forearm...
View ArticleNorth Korea News Agency Broadcasts Images Of Kim Jong-Un's Uncle Being...
North Korea's state television showed photos and video of Kim Jong-Un's powerful uncle Jang Song-Thaek being physically removed from a government meeting. Jang, who was often seen by Kim's side, was...
View ArticleVeteran DC Police Officer Being Investigated For Possibly Running A...
A veteran Washington D.C. police officer is suspected of running a prostitution ring after police found a 16-year-old girl who had been reported missing in his apartment, The Washington Post reports....
View ArticleHERE COMES CONSUMER CONFIDENCE...
Heads up! We are minutes away from the release of the preliminary results of the University of Michigan's December consumer confidence survey, due out at 9:55 AM ET. Economists predict the report's...
View ArticleThe Head Of English Football Had A Brutally Honest Reaction To England's...
The World Cup draw was not kind to English-speaking countries this year. The United States, Australia, and England all got incredibly difficult draws. When England got placed with Uruguay, Italy, and...
View ArticleLions Kicker Falls Down Like Charlie Brown On An Extra Point Attempt In The Snow
Blizzard-like conditions in Philadelphia made kicking field goals and extra points difficult in the Eagles-Lions game. But after a touchdown that put them up 20-14, the Lions decided to attempt the...
View ArticleBitcoin Has Made A Major Comeback
Bitcoin crashed on Friday and Saturday, falling from around $1100 to below $600 at one point, in part due to some headlines out of China. But the digital currency (or whatever it is) has made a big...
View ArticleCHART: The United States Will Be A Huge Underdog In The 2014 World Cup
The United States men's soccer team is 100/1 to win the 2014 World Cup according to the sportsbook Bovada.lv. Those odds put the United States in the middle of the 32-team tournament, tied for 15th...
View ArticleKristen Wiig Returns To 'SNL' To Parody 'The Sound Of Music'
In case you missed NBC's three-hour broadcast of "The Sound of Music Live,""Saturday Night Live" performed their own condensed version with Kristen Wiig. Wiig returned as the popular, awkward tiny,...
View ArticleApple's Home Page Is A Tribute To Nelson Mandela
Apple.com has a tribute to Nelson Mandela on its welcome page. Mandela died Thursday. Here's what the tribute page looks like: Email More Share on Tumblr Alerts Newsletter URL Recommended For You Nest...
View ArticleHere's How Hot Startups Help Employees Cash Out Before An IPO
Atish Davda, cofounder, Equityzen See Also If you work for a hot startup and you have an equity stake, it's just money on paper until the company goes public or gets acquired. But what if you're an...
View ArticleThe Best Seasonal Jobs Of 2013
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View ArticleChina Bans State Officials From Having Shark Fin And Bird's Nest Soup At...
See Also BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have banned shark fin and bird's nest soup from official receptions and told lower level officials they cannot stay in suites on business trips in the...
View ArticleApple Strikes A Deal To Sell The iPhone On China Mobile's Network
Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today. Apple has...
View ArticleSnapchat Is Raising $54.5 Million On A Valuation Of Up To $2 Billion, This...
Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snapchat The sleuths at VC Experts, a site that tracks the financial information of private companies, have done it again. They uncovered a new regulatory filing that shows...
View ArticleParis Created A Wonderful Etiquette Guide For Using Its Subway System
In an effort to improve the manners of those using its metro system, the agency that runs public transit in Paris has created a "manuel de savoir-vivre"— an etiquette guide. It's not only excellent...
View ArticleAbercrombie Shares Are Tanking After Company Renews Contract Of Embattled...
Abercrombie & Fitch shares are falling after the company announced it was renewing the contract of controversial CEO Michael Jeffries. Shares fell more than 2%. Investors reportedly wanted...
View ArticleHere Is The Fantastically Tiny Amount Of Money Artists Get When Spotify...
People used to read this. Each time Spotify plays a song, your favorite singer or band gets as little as 0.6 cents, the company said. At that rate, a song would need to be played 166 times for the...
View ArticleKiller Whales Lurk Silently In The Dark To Pounce On Their Unsuspecting Prey
SAN FRANCISCO — For killer whales, silence is golden as they hunt in complete darkness, listening for sounds of their marine mammal prey, and then rushing in for the kill, new research suggests. "The...
View ArticleUnilever Announces Brutal Cuts: 800 Marketing Jobs Gone; 30% Of Products...
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today: Unilever announced in an investors' meeting yesterday that it will be cutting 800 marketers, decreasing its product varieties by 30 percent,...
View ArticleREVIEW: Motorola Made A Really Good Phone If You Don't Want To Spend A Lot...
The Moto G. See Also Part of the reason why about 80% of all smartphones run Android is because manufacturers are able to take Google's free software and sell it on very cheap devices. Those phones...
View Article15 Stunning Mountaintop Hotels
Features Fodor's Mountain Hotels Get Alerts for these topics » Advertisement: Join The Discussion OR Login With Facebook Login With Twitter Login With Google Submit the comment for Insider Status...
View ArticleNO REMORSE: Bernie Madoff Still Doesn't Care What You Think Of Him
See Also There is a way that one expects visits with jailed criminals to go: typically, there's guilt, contrition, the accepting of responsibility. Not so with Bernie Madoff, serving 150 years, the...
View ArticleGIF Captures A Skateboarder Leaping Over A NYC Subway Track
Back in March, we got our first look at an amazing photo of skateboarder jumping over a New York City subway track, via Gothamist. Now we've got the GIF (again via Gothamist), and it's even cooler....
View ArticleAwesome Smartphone-Controlled Paper Airplane Has Raised $490,000+ On...
PowerUp 3.0, smartphone controlled paper airplane See Also PowerUp 3.0, a device that lets you control paper airplanes with a smartphone app, is becoming the must-have new toy, though, sadly, it won't...
View ArticleA Dad Started Coloring In His Kids' Drawings — And Produced Some Amazing Art
Features Art Fathers Color Get Alerts for these topics » Advertisement: Join The Discussion OR Login With Facebook Login With Twitter Login With Google Submit the comment for Insider Status Insiders 0...
View ArticleSyrian Rebels Claim Assad Has Used Chemical Weapons Again
See Also AMMAN (Reuters) - Opposition activists again accused President Bashar al-Assad's forces of using poison gas in Syria's civil war on Thursday, and said victims had been discovered with swollen...
View ArticleSouth African Mercedes-Benz Workers Made This Car For Nelson Mandela When He...
When Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years in prison, workers at the Mercedes-Benz plant in East London, South Africa paid tribute to the leader with a gift made specially for him: a red S-Class....
View ArticleThe Disturbing Reason 97% Of Federal Drug Defendants Plead Guilty
Darlene Eckles refused to take a plea deal and got 20 years. Human Rights Watch (HRW) has a disturbing report alleging the U.S. government essentially forces drug defendants to either plead guilty or...
View ArticleThe Guy That Founded Joe Boxer Has Started A New Men's Fashion Line
See Also You know you had a pair. Nick Graham, the founder of ubiquitous Joe Boxer underwear, has launched a new men's fashion line named after himself, Nick Graham. The new line, sold exclusively...
View ArticleNFL WEEK 14: Our Official Predictions For Who Wins
See Also The NFL is always pretty exciting. But, with just 4 games left in the season, it's really exciting. This is basically a mini-playoff before the real playoffs start. In the NFC, it's the most...
View ArticleTHE SCARIEST JOBS CHART EVER
The U.S. economy added 203,000 jobs in November, which was much stronger than the the 185,000 expected. The October number was revised modestly downward to 200,000 from an earlier estimate of 204,000....
View ArticleThis 10-Step Guide To Surviving The Smog In China Is So Depressing
We've been writing a lot about the record levels of smog in Shanghai lately. Thanks to a combination of weather and other factors it's gotten to levels that are genuinely hazardous to health. So how...
View ArticleMarine Band Absolutely Crushes Macklemore's 'Thriftshop' In Epic Birthday...
The Third Marine Aircraft Wing performs at the 238th Marine Corps Birthday Ball. United States Marines from the Third Marine Aircraft Wing Band sang their version of Macklemore and Lewis’s...
View ArticleWhy 2014 Could Finally Be The Year For The US Economy
Pretty much since 2009, analysts and economists have held out hope that next year cold be the year that things return to normal. And each year has been something of a disappointment. Each year since...
View ArticleThe Most Amazing Satellite Images Of The Year
Environment Nature Earth Satellites Features Get Alerts for these topics » Advertisement: Join The Discussion OR Login With Facebook Login With Twitter Login With Google Submit the comment for Insider...
View ArticleNew Details Revealed About Ryan Lanza's Interrogation After The Sandy Hook...
Ryan Lanza on the news. Police interrogated Ryan Lanza — the older brother of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter Adam Lanza — for hours after the massacre in Connecticut, according to a new book by...
View ArticleMany College Professors Started Using Grade Inflation To Protect Bad...
College grade inflation is in the news this week following the revelation that the most common grade given to Harvard University undergraduates is an "A." Two of the biggest questions around grade...
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