Throughout the day, restaurants in New York City sit empty and unused. Spacious, a startup Preston Pesek cofounded with software engineer Chris Smothers, making better use of that space, turns be...(more)
Highly-targeted ads or personalization of digital technology will be the norm on billboards soon. A camera on the billboard will look hundreds of meters down the expressway to identify vehicles a...(more)
Zuckerburg is erecting a wall that borders his 700-acre property in Kilauea, Kauai. And it obstructs the ocean view and the sea breeze according to neighbors, who find Zuckerberg’s wall downrig...(more)
Global investors lost two trillion dollars on the day following the Brexit vote. According to CNBC, the total amount of money lost on global stock markets surpassed even the darkest days of the f...(more)
Apple, Microsoft, Google, IBM, HP, and Cisco, among others — are raking in record profits. But our addiction to the latest technology is simultaneously killing our atmosphere, our water, indige...(more)
At the Cannes advertising festival, Madonna Badger, co-founder of an ad agency, said that objectifying women in ads isn’t just the wrong thing to do but can also have real business ramification...(more)
Microsoft said on Monday it was acquiring LinkedIn, a business social networking site that has more than 400 million members globally, in a $26.2 billion cash deal. Microsoft agreed to pay $196 a...(more)
Breakfast in cereals may not be the best after all. Many of the studies that say so are funded by the food industry, which has a clear bias. In pre-Corn Flakes America, breakfast wasn't cold...(more)
Google stores everything privately and here are the 10 important links (URLs) that will unlock everything Google knows about you. They are hidden somewhere deep inside your Google Account dashboa...(more)
In the civil lawsuit filed by three Illinois residents under the the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act, they accuse Facebook of violating privacy with face-recognition software to help ...(more)
Facebook reportedly censors its "trending" news stories to drown out conservative and right-leaning news and websites, even trending across the Web. Former Facebook "news curators" said there was...(more)
A new study in the Melbourne Institute’s Working Paper Series found that a three-day work week may be the best way to keep employees over 40 productive yet not burned out. Findings show that fo...(more)
A new study shows that relatively few posts a day on Twitter can reveal your physical location in as little as eight tweets per day. Researchers at MIT and Oxford University say the location sta...(more)
Facebook has apologised after refusing to run an advert featuring plus-sized model Tess Holliday wearing a bikini. The social network said it had made a mistake and has now approved the image. Au...(more)
Tina Roth Eisenberg, a Swiss-born designer also known as Swiss Miss, runs four businesses with just 17 employees. And they're not small businesses. Depending on your perspective, Eisenberg&#...(more)
In Infosys, the number of executives earning more than 10 million Rs ($148,000) a year fell to 48 in the last financial year, while in the previous years it was 111. Analysts say the company paid...(more)
A village in Meghalaya, once notorious for brewing country liquor and ensuing drunken brawls, has now turned into a model village by opting to brewing tea instead. For the last two years, they ha...(more)
Howard Buffett, son of Warren Buffett, and farmer, has traveled the world developing his ability to transition farms in poor countries so they can sustain populations. Buffett's foundation f...(more)
Some of India’s biggest technology startups, valued at over $1 billion, seem to be coming apart at the seams. From investors purchasing stocks at a lower valuation to layoffs and foregoing inve...(more)
High-end hotels in Europe are keen to serve meals to their customers on biodegradable plates made of siali leaves now sourced from Indian tribal women. About 3,500 women from Kandhamal, Sambalpur...(more)
A six-year dispute between Oracle Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google over software copyrights heads back to court Monday for a trial that could lead to billions of dollars in damages and alter th...(more)
At specialty shops across Asia, the bereaved burn paper replicas of material goods like phones and sports cars, as offerings to relatives who have died, in a modern twist on an old Chinese custom...(more)
Both India and the Netherlands have said they will be moving entirely away from gas-powered vehicles. India’s government recently met to discuss their plans to move entirely to electric vehicle...(more)
Just how much is a breath of fresh air worth? For people in New Delhi, it may seem priceless. But a Canadian company thinks the price is about Rs 12.50 per breath. The start-up Vitality Air, base...(more)
The travel advisory issued by the UK warns about North Carolina and Mississippi’s controversial new laws on LGBT members rights The UK government has updated foreign travel advice warning Briti...(more)
Shoes manufactured in India are sold for as much as €100 in markets like the UK but people who are an integral part of the manufacturing process do not even see a fraction of this. These women ...(more)
A cafe in Russia endeavours to establish Putin’s superiority among the Presidents of the world and a hate for the West in their decor. They use toilet paper with Obama’s face on it,...(more)
Monsanto, a producer of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), is known for its mass poisoning, genetic pollution and agricultural slavery, but Fortune magazine just named them the “most ad...(more)
Indians may slowly be undergoing a whole new round of “toilet training”: Toilet wipes, diapers and sanitary napkins are flying off the shelves in Asia’s third largest economy.Th...(more)
Facebook is terrified seeing people share information about themselves less and less. People still post plenty of updates, but more about the outside world and less about them. Worried, Facebook&...(more)
The long-running labour reforms protests have prompted a chaotic period for France, which has seen fuel shortages, transport strikes, and countless demonstrations. And the tourism sector is feeli...(more)
L&T Infotech, which was planning to launch Rs 2,000 crore-IPO, has withdrawn offer letters to 1,500 students based in South India. The withdrawal of offer letters to students could be an indicat...(more)
Libraire des Puf, or Les Puf, who have handled all aspects of the book trade since 1921, reopens in a tiny bookstore with tablets and a small cafe. Patrons come in, browses a tablet or a curated ...(more)
A local independent bookstore in Singapore has installed three vending machine at high traffic spots. Each of the machines stock a hundred and fifty books and focus on local publishers and author...(more)
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