Downton Abbey was a smash drama hit for PBS – can any other British show ever fill its beautifully-polished shoes? Well, PBS has its fingers crossed that Victoria – another period drama from U.K. – will do just that when it premieres tonight (Jan. 15, 2017)
CINCINNATI, OH- JULY 6: Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R) introduces Donald Trump during a rally. (Photo by John Sommers II/Getty Images) Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA), a high-level advisor to President-elect Donald Trump during the campaign, tweeted last Friday that one of the most respected agencies in [...]
Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?
Time to sell Yahoo and buy Alibaba directly instead
The law professor, James Kwak, has treated us to his thoughts on the minimum wage. The essence of which is that there's just too much economics 101 going on here, people just aren't grasping the complexity of the subject. There being a couple of problems with this assertion. The first [...]
The next iPhone will have an IP68 rating
We have another of those reports which shows us that everything is going to the dogs and after us the deluge. In this case it's that millennials earn some 20% less than boomers did at the same stage of life. They also have a significantly lower net worth, level of [...]
The revelation could put arrested Volkswagen manager Oliver Schmidt in U.S. jail for many years, and it could cost Volkswagen another $10 bln.
McLaren explores its intimate link with carbon fiber through the special-edition 675LT MSO Carbon Series LT - the 25 performance cars are intricately designed to showcase exquisitely tailored visual carbon bodies
The run up to the Budget is the traditional time for commentators to propose those things they'd like to see and which also have absolutely no chance of ever happening. In that spirit Arun Jaitley should, instead of the assumed cut in corporation tax rates, simply abolish the tax entirely. [...]
Bennie is planning to start a stealth job search and he wants to beef up his LinkedIn profile with recommendations. How should Bennie ask for those recommendations without signaling that he's about to start looking for a new job?
Charlotte is in a bind. Her manager wants her to take on a new role and she wants to do it, because it's a great title and new responsibility that will help her. The only problem is that the manager won't commit to a pay raise in line with the promotion. What should Charlotte do?
Nick isn't working right now, and he announces that fact in his LinkedIn headline. Nick went to a networking event for job-seekers where the speaker advised people not to share their unemployed status on their LinkedIn profiles -- because some employers might not like it!
IBF Super Middleweight Champion James DeGale and WBC Super Middleweight Champion Badou Jack battled to a thrilling majority-decision draw after 12 grueling rounds. One judge scored it 114-112 for DeGale, but the other two had it even at 113.
Beijing needs money fast, and it is sending its supremo to Switzerland to get it.
Cheap natural gas and renewables ousted coal as America's leading energy source in 2015—a decade earlier than the Clean Power Plan predicted, and without the Clean Power Plan's help, according to a new analysis.
Russia is not only talking about developing a sophisticated network of high-speed passenger trains but a trans-continental high-speed cargo rail line as well.
Are we ready for the next generation of television? Is cutting the cord the best choice already? Sling TV and PlayStation Vue sure seem to think so. They are not alone.
As the legal maneuverings over the rights of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to gain access to Coinbase customer accounts, continue, Brian Armstrong, Co-Founder and CEO at Coinbase, took to the publishing platform, Medium, to explain his side of the story.
Last month I put the Microsoft HoloLens through its paces to experience Redmond's view of this new wave of computing. I spent time in Microsoft's HoloLens suite in London, spoke to Microsoft team members, and met partners who are already seeing the financial benefits of using HoloLens.
Kingston Chu, the son of Hong Kong billionaire Pollyanna Chu, has left his posts at vice chairman and managing director of Hong Kong-listed Sincere Watch, a distributor of Franck Muller watches the family bought in 2012. In a statement on Friday, Sincere said Zhang Xiaoliang, a current deputy chairman and executive [...]
Timothy McIntosh is a man after my own heart. The Tampa, Florida-based portfolio manager and financial planner dedicated an entire book -- The Snowball Effect: Using Dividends & Interest Reinvestment To Help You Retire On Time – to expand on one of my very favorite topics: the compounding effects of [...]
Microsoft has solutions after finally admitting a problem at the core of Windows 10...
Samsung publishes videos showing off what looks like the Galaxy S8...