European soccer’s midseason transfer window—when clubs are permitted to buy and sell players—is open for the next month, meaning things could get a bit crazy in the next few weeks as clubs try to salvage or cement their seasons with expensive additions.
Tomorrow morning, US time, the ubiquitous coffee chain Starbucks will start selling “flat whites” to its US customers.
In 2014, Elon Musk evolved from being one of the most exciting entrepreneurs in tech into one of the most important figures in global business.
Christmas songs and carols usually conjure up images of snow, Santa Claus, and general jolliness. But one of the greatest Christmas rock anthems involves none of those things. Instead, its a tale of a poor, down-on-their-luck—and heavily inebriated—Irish immigrant couple trying to make it in New York in the 1940s.
“We will respond,” US president Barack Obama declared at his final scheduled press conference for 2014 last Friday. He was referring to the hacking of Sony Pictures, which the US government blames on North Korea. “We will respond proportionately, and in a space, time and manner that we choose,” Obama added.
Yes, 2014 was a big year for the music industry, but 2015 could be even more important. A couple of weeks before it officially begins, it is already shaping up to be a watershed year. And this chart explains why:
So the FBI has now formally accused North Korea of being behind the gigantic cyber-attack that has brought Sony Pictures to its knees over the past month—culminating in Sony’s decision yesterday to pull The Interview, which is about a fictional plot to assassinate Kim Jong-un, from theaters.
Uber has been heavily criticized for its practice of implementing “surge pricing” during times of high demand, perhaps never more so than earlier this week when prices for rides in Sydney increased dramatically amid a hostage crisis.
Sony is being slammed by Hollywood stars and other high profile personalities for its decision to pull The Interview from theaters.
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The history of corporate America is littered with examples of great companies that harness an emerging technology before anyone else, grow rapidly, but invariably mature, fall into decline and sometimes collapse or disappear completely (think Kodak or Bethlehem Steel).
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T-Mobile US’s wild, unorthodox CEO John Legere was at it again this morning.
This was a huge year for IPOs, and 2015 is looking likely to be pretty great as well.
It’s no secret that BuzzFeed is on a roll.
Over the past two decades or so, a cultural phenomenon has taken hold in America. It involves grown men and women pretending to be the owners of imaginary professional sports teams on the internet. It is known as fantasy football.
Netflix’s most ambitious original show yet went live in the early hours of this morning, US time. Marco Polo, described as an epic Silk Road adventure, chronicles the famous medieval Italian explorer’s adventures in Asia. It cost $90 million to make, and has been described as Netflix’s attempt at making its own Game of Thrones, the mega-hit show made by its rival, HBO.
Rdio is the forgotten player in streaming music.
One of the indirect casualties of tumbling oil prices in recent weeks has been Tesla. Shares in Elon Musk’s electric automaker have sunk by about 25% over the past three months.
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Americans love to complain about how their internet service is slow, unreliable, and above all else, expensive, but it seems their whining is totally justified.
Ted Sarandos has one of the coolest jobs in America.
College football is a big deal in the US.
This week, the film studio Sony Pictures suffered one of the most damaging cyber attacks in recent memory.
