Brian Williams to Take Leave From ‘NBC Nightly News’
Brian Williams said on Saturday that he was stepping aside from the daily broadcast of NBC’s “Nightly News” for the next several days, after admitting that he had misled the…
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10 States With The Worst Taxes For Average Americans
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10 Cities Where Crime Is Soaring
This story was originally published by 24/7 Wall St. The United States is becoming safer, with crime levels dropping nearly every year. Between 1991 and 2013, the U.S. violent crime…
Would Sitting In A Fun Swing Make Your Stupid Meetings Less Boring?
It’s hard to imagine that any meeting using The King Arthur Round Table could be dull. Even if the people were dull, and the subject was dull. Read the whole…
Wegmans Ranked No. 1 For Company Reputation
People love Wegmans. – To determine the rankings in the Harris Poll Reputation Quotient study, evaluated annually for the last 16 years, Nielsen conducted an online survey in English of…
NBC’s bid for the truth on Brian Williams led by veteran ‘digger’
Esposito is the senior executive producer of NBC’s investigative unit. He normally tries to break news about subjects like government wrongdoing. He strives to get his stories on Williams’ “NBC…
Data Breach at Anthem May Lead to Others
After an online attack on Anthem, by far the largest breach in the industry, security experts warned on Friday that more attacks on health care organizations were likely because of…
Brian Williams stepping aside for ‘next several days’
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Brian Williams Faces ‘Fact-Checking’ Inquiry at NBC
A compilation of Brian Williams’s television appearances shows how his accounts of a 2003 episode on military helicopters in Iraq gradually became more perilous. Scrambling to contain a crisis engulfing…
Brian Williams’ reporting on Katrina: What we know
In a 2006 interview with former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, Williams described the horrifying scene in post-Katrina New Orleans. “When you look out of your hotel room window in the…
Artist Uses Music To Illustrate NYC’s Income Inequality Across A Single Subway Line
What can a New York City subway ride tell us? In the work of Brian Foo, it offers a unique way to examine income inequality across different parts of the…
You’d Be Surprised At How Much Sleep Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Gets Each Night
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Brian Williams Faces Investigation by NBC
A compilation of Brian Williams’s television appearances shows how his accounts of a 2003 episode on military helicopters in Iraq gradually became more perilous. NBC News is starting an internal…
How Brian Williams’s Iraq Story Changed – Video
A compilation of Brian Williams’s television appearances shows how his accounts of a 2003 episode on military helicopters in Iraq gradually became more perilous. –
New Law Would Require Workaholic Japanese To Take Days Off
College-educated and gainfully employed 36-year-old Eriko Sekiguchi should be a sought-after friend or date, planning nights on the town and faraway resort vacations. But she works in Japan, a nation…
Target Employees Help Teen Prep For His First Interview, Just Because
Two Target employees in Raleigh, North Carolina went the extra mile to help a young shopper prep for a job interview. According to ABC 11 News, the unnamed teenager walked…
Anti-Tesla States Jabbed With Luddite ‘Award’
The votes are in for the inaugural Luddite Awards, intended to call out the stifling of innovation. The winners of the dubious honor are four states which banned Tesla Motors…
This Is a Great Jobs Report Across the Board
Follow Us: Get the Upshot in your Inbox FEB. 6, 2015 – But the report clearly adds ammunition to those within the central bank who take an alternate view, which…
U.S. Economy Added 257,000 Jobs in January; Unemployment Rate at 5.7%
In a sign the economic momentum evident late last year has carried into 2015, the Labor Department said Friday that American employers added 257,000 jobs in January, as wage growth…
A Game of Chicken
On Wednesday, the European Central Bank announced that it would no longer accept Greek government debt as collateral for loans. Read the whole story at New York Times
Forget Treadmill Desks: This Device Lets You Surf In Place At Your Standing Desk
Joel Heath was once the stereotypical ultra-active Colorado executive. He ran an ad agency out of Vail, where the company had a six-inch rule: if it snowed six inches, the…
The Best Thing About January’s Job’s Report Happened In December And November
In economics, the past is never dead — it’s always subject to revision. Case in point: The biggest news in the January jobs report happened in December and November. January’s…
U.S. Adds 257,000 Jobs In January; Unemployment Rate Rises To 5.7 Percent
The U.S. economy added 257,000 jobs in January, as the unemployment rate rose to 5.7 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. More from the AP: WASHINGTON (AP) —…
The 2015 bargain: emerging market stocks
The tide has turned for the heavyweights, like China, India, South Korea and Taiwan. Stocks in those countries make up about half the value of the emerging market index and…
Where zombie foreclosures are still hurting housing markets
“These are the sore thumbs in any neighborhood,” said Daren Blomquist, vice president at RealtyTrac. “The very visible signs of distress are there with these properties.” But an increase in…
The New York Times and its big ‘zero’
Its game is a game of crossover: Moving from a world that is still print-centric to one that will be mainly digital within the next several years. While digital disruption…
Siemens to axe 7,800 jobs
Siemens expanded its energy operations last year by buying Dresser-Rand (DRC) for $7.6 billiononly to see the oil prices halve within six months. – Most stock quote data provided by…
Apple CEO who fired Steve Jobs: ‘I wish I had hired him back’
“I say that without any reservation,” said Sculley. “Tim is doing a brilliant job.” Related: The Apple Watch will flop. Here’s why Sculley said comparing Cook to former Microsoft (MSFT,…
Gravity wins: GoPro stock plummets 10%
Still too expensive? The stock trades at more than 40 times 2015 earnings estimates, a very rich priceespecially for a company that critics view as a fad. “Rubik’s cube and…
TurboTax halts all state tax filings due to fraud concerns
“Unfortunately, the bad guys have a lot of places to get information,” she said. Just this week, insurance giant Anthem (ANTM) was hit by a massive data breach, where information…