35-Foot Shot At The Buzzer Keeps Top-Ranked Syracuse Undefeated
Syracuse's hopes for a perfect season remained intact thanks to a 35-foot shot at the buzzer by Tyler Ennis to give the Orange a 58-56 win.Despite being 23-0 entering the game, Syracuse was actually a...
View ArticleDropbox Poaches Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside To Be COO (GOOG)
Dropbox has landed former Google employee Dennis Woodside as its first COO, Douglas MacMillan at the Wall Street Journal reports.Woodside was most recently CEO of Motorola. Google sold Motorola to...
View ArticleCar bomb kills at least 18 in Syria
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A car bomb killed at least 18 people a town in southern Syria on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.The bomb went off near a mosque in the town of al-Yadouda...
View ArticleIn Case You Haven't Noticed, The Stock Market Is Way Off Of Its Lows Of The Year
After closing 2014 at a then-all-time-high of 1,848, the stock market (represented by the S&P 500) has been on a bit of a wild ride since the beginning of the year.It climbed to its now all-time...
View Article14 Corny Ways An Economist Might Say 'I Love You'
In love and economics, words only go so far.That's why we turn to charts... in both love and economics.Elizabeth Fosslien, a chartsmith and analyst at Arc Worldwide, created 14 admittedly cheesy charts...
View ArticleJohn Kerry: Obama Has Asked For New Policy Options On Syria
BEIJING (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that President Barack Obama has asked for possible new policy options on Syria given the worsening humanitarian situation there."He has...
View ArticleMOBILE INSIDER: Artificial Intelligence Is Becoming A Reality — Audi's...
Mobile Insider is delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers.CAN COMPUTERS BE OUR FRIENDS? Dave Smith at ReadWrite discusses developments in mobile recommendation...
View ArticlePAYMENTS INSIDER: China's Mobile Payments Project — Square's New Feature —...
Welcome to our new Payments Insider newsletter, a morning email with the top news and analysis on the digital payments industry, produced by BI Intelligence. THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHES A MOBILE...
View ArticleChina Is Developing A Nationwide Mobile Payments Infrastructure
Welcome to our new Payments Insider newsletter, a morning email with the top news and analysis on the digital payments industry, produced by BI Intelligence. Click here to sign up for Payments Insider...
View ArticleSomeone Has Named Their Baby 'Facebook'
There's a baby in Mexico named "Facebook," and Mexican officials are clicking 'dislike.'According to BetaBeat, Mexican officials banned 61 names they’ve "deemed dumbest," and that includes the name of...
View ArticlePublisher Penguin warns of India's free speech curbs after withdrawing book...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Freedom of expression is under threat in India, publisher Penguin Books India said on Friday, adding that it had little choice but to withdraw from sale a controversial book on...
View ArticleVIDEO INSIDER: Digging Deeper Into Comcast-Time Warner Cable Deal — Netflix...
Welcome to our new Video Insider newsletter, a morning email with the top news and analysis on the digital video industry, produced by BI Intelligence. NUMBERS BEHIND COMCAST-TIME WARNER CABLE DEAL:...
View ArticleJames Montier's Annotated CAPE Chart Is Brilliant
Stock market volatility has made a big comeback in 2014. After a steady climb to all-time highs in 2013, we've seen the S&P 500 tumble 6% before recovering most of those losses.However, many...
View ArticleThe Surprising Truth About Cousins And Marriage
In modern western society, marrying your cousin is not well accepted, particularly in the United States. Through a combination of old prejudices and present-day conventional wisdom about inherited...
View Article11 Surreal Photos That Make Sochi Look Like The Summer Olympics
The official slogan for the Sochi Olympics is "Hot. Cool. Yours." Prior to the Olympics we could not have anticipated just how prescient that would be.With temperatures reaching the 60s on several...
View ArticleHere's A Quick Guide To What Traders Are Chatting About Right Now
Dave Lutz of Stifel Nicolaus has a roundup of what traders are chatting about ahead of the U.S. market open:Good Morning, and Happy Valentine’s day – US Futures are higher, SPX contracts adding 20bp...
View ArticleSOCIAL INSIDER: Twitter's Missed Opportunity — Facebook News Feed Revelations...
Social Insider is delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. TWITTER MISSED OUT ON INSTAGRAM: Twitter's failed attempt to acquire Instagram in 2012 is now coming...
View ArticleThis Map Shows How Incredibly Snowy It Has Been This Year
The U.S. has been battered with several big winter storms this year, and people are right to think that this winter has been much worse than last year.This map from Reuters shows how snowfall totals...
View ArticleREVIEW: Confide App – The 'Snapchat For Business' – Is Awesome
<div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div> Confide is a private messaging app being touted as the "Snapchat For Business." It launched in January with a lot of...
View ArticleMAPS: The Most Popular Winter Olympic Sport In Every Country
Facebook put together this cool map of the most talked about Winter Olympic sports in every country during the first week of the Olympics.Some observations (see continent-by-continent maps...
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