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Buzzing helicopters and sirens snapped Godelive Ohelo awake from her nap. “I looked out the window and it was red, just red,” she says of the flames from the wildfires reflected in the smoke and clouds. Ohelo got a call from her daughter Chanel’s school to come pick up the 7-year-old. But the fire racing […]

Jeb Bush left a lengthy Facebook post that congratulates Donald Trump for capturing the 2016 GOP presidential nomination. Something he failed at miserably.

Basic economics works like this: low supply coupled with high demand leads to increased prices.

Business Insider / Matt Johnston

Activision-Blizzard is at the forefront of a tremendous opportunity, one that could boost its operating income by a factor of a five.

Today, the firm derives virtually all of its revenue from the sale of video game products. Video game discs, digital downloads, online gaming subscriptions, and Skylanders toys generated approximately 100% of Activision's revenue in 2015. But the company could look substantially different in the future. On the company's February earnings call... Читать дальше...

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When you imagine high-powered CEOs starting their morning, you probably picture them kicking back with a copy of The Wall Street Journal or The New York Times to get a handle on the day's news.

But you'd be wrong.

Quartz recently surveyed 940 top-tier executives, and found that 60% of them stay informed by reading email newsletters, compared to just 28% using news apps and 3% reading physical newspapers.

Between conventional news organizations, industry-specific sites... Читать дальше...

Bakey's

Some 40 million tons of reusable plastic cutlery get thrown away every year, most of them after a single use. This plastic can take up to 1,000 years to break down in the environment. Meanwhile, they collect in our oceans, adding to an already long list of environmental concerns we face today.

Bakeys, an edible cutlery manufacturer based in India, might have a promising solution. The company launching the world's first edible cutlery line. Yes — that's a spoon that you can eat. Читать дальше...

Inflation is so low that it's hard to see it hurting anyone. But even moderate inflation can erode retirees' finances.

WACO, Texas (AP) — Pilgrim's Pride is expanding a 5 million pound recall of cooked chicken products.

WACO, Texas (AP) — Pilgrim's Pride is expanding a 5 million pound recall of cooked chicken products.

West Ham's hopes of Champions League football take a severe knock as Swansea put four past them in Upton Park's final Saturday game.

CONCORD, New Hampshire - The peach crop in much of the Northeast was decimated by sub-zero temperatures in mid-February in what one fruit tree expert describes as the Valentine's Day massacre of the peach blooms.

"I still feel as though I betrayed her," the journalist says, 17 years after her mother's death.

Coupled with Newcastle's failure to score in a draw against Aston Villa, the Black Cats are in the driver's seat for 17th place in the Premier League.

Courtney Verrill

The debate over Sean Parker's Screening Room startup, which would let people stream movies still playing in theaters from home, rages on. But the rich and famous have been doing exactly that for years now.

Prima Cinema provides its customers — including top CEOs and celebrities — with first-run movies to stream in their living rooms and private screening rooms, and it has the full support of the movie studios. Though it comes at a much higher cost for customers than what Parker is proposing. Читать дальше...

Maryland police trying to figure out why federal law enforcement officer allegedly went on rampage