Vice Magazine Names First Female Editor-In-Chief In 20-Year History
Vice has named Ellis Jones as the new editor-in-chief of Vice Magazine, the media company announced in a press release Thursday. – The author of this post has worked previously…
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Whole Foods is red hot again. Sales are surging.
Supermarket chain Kroge (KR)r made a big push into organic food and its stock has been routinely hitting all-time highs lately thanks to strong results. Whole Foods has also had…
Wedding dresses women want, backed by data
In July, Loverly started digging into this data for trends and discovered that crop tops were trending. That was reinforced during October’s Bridal Fashion Week, where Khalil said “a lot”…
BlackBerry fans rejoice. This gadget is for you
Related: Geolocate your keysor your cat With the help of one of the lead keyboard designers for BlackBerry (BBRY, Tech30), as well as former Nokia (NOK) and Amazon (AMZN, Tech30)…
Paris council to mayor: Go ahead and sue Fox News
Paris city council said the words undermined “the honor and reputation of Paris.” – Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real time, except for…
Lester Holt, NBC’s marathon man
Holt is “the last guy to complain,” said an NBC source. The nonstop nature of Holt’s work once garnered him the nickname “Iron Pants.” Two sources confirmed the weekend anchoring…
Elon Musk’s ‘insane’ call: Tesla is worth $700 billion
He bases his $700 billion valuation estimate on a couple of assumptions. First, he thinks that the company can continue to report sales increases of 50% a year for the…
New York Times columnist David Carr dead at 58
Carr won plaudits for the book, which he reported over the course of two years. “My story is charming or horrifying, depending on which part of it you focus on,”…
Won the Powerball jackpot? Here comes the taxman
The states have their own tax laws. Powerball tickets weren’t sold in Puerto Rico until as recently as September, in Texas until 2010 and in North Carolina until 2006. The…
What really scared Sony Pictures ex-co-chair Amy Pascal: The hacked emails
The hack also revealed internal data that showed the differences in pay between men and women in Hollywood. – Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown…
Microsoft fixes a serious 15-year-old bug
An independent researcher, Jeff Schmidt of JAS Global Advisors in Chicago, discovered it while working on another project a year ago. He alerted Microsoft, and they worked together to fix…
The car of the future
“The future of the car is electric, and autonomous,” said Levi Tillemann, a fellow at the New America Foundation and author of “The Great Race: The Global Quest for the…
Is this the world’s most expensive chocolate?
To’ak, means “earth” and “tree” in a fusion of ancient Ecuadorian dialects, said Toth, who co-founded the company in 2013. Operations are split between Chicago and Quito, Ecuador’s capital, which…
Metals exec: 25% of physical gold buyers are crazy
These so-called crazy gold provide lots of business for Kitco. He said their influence is most obvious in the market for smaller units of physical gold between one and 32…
Savers asked to paying interest to banks
Some companies are also able to borrow money from investors for free. – Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the…
This company is making luxury jewelry with a 3-D printer
So how exactly does a 3-D printer make luxury jewelry? At Polychemy, 3-D printers produce a wax mold that is cast into metal; gems are then set before the entire…
Facebook now lets you post when you’re dead
From there, you can enter the name of a Facebook friend to take control of your page after you die. It will auto-generate a message to that friend: “Hi ___,…
New York’s Rotterdam shopping mall’s cut after owner fails to pay bill
That’s small comfort to employees at the mall. A salon at the mall had to shut down because there was no power for its hair dryers. An employee, who did…
Expedia to buy Orbitz in $1.6 billion deal
Expedia said it expects the purchase to boost its full-year earnings by roughly 75 cents per share, though it stressed that the estimate depends on a variety of factors. –…
Penalties await if you claim a bigger fuel tax credit than you’re allowed
Part of the problem may be that while you must have a log of the people from whom you bought the fuel and the purchase dates, you’re not required to…
You’ll pay a lot more to see the doctor with Obamacare than with job-based health insurance
Related: Cost keeps uninsured from enrolling in Obamacare High deductibles have been a sore point with some Obamacare enrollees. They have complained that they have to shell out thousands of…
Bob Simon was killed Wednesday in a car crash: His last story will air Sunday
“He was working with his daughter, Tanya, a ’60 Minutes’ producer with whom he collaborated on several stories for the program,” CBS said. – Most stock quote data provided by…
Bored of your superyacht? Time for a submarine
The machines are custom made but DeepFlight is considering moving to regular production runs as the market grows. In the last few years the company has sold 2 or 3…
I lived without a cell phone for 135 days
If I was in a real pinch, sometimes I had to ask people for their phones. Late to a meeting with my boss, and stuck in traffic, I prayed for…
Chinese phone maker enters U.S. market with … bunnies
“A lot of their success in China is because they have very tightly integrated and localized features in their operating system,” said Ben Bajarian, an analyst at Creative Strategies. In…
What else has NBC News dug up on Brian WIlliams?
Media accounts have concentrated more on Williams’ misstatements than the apparent lack of executive oversight. (His appearances on late-night shows, for example, were set up by public relations people and…
Recreational pot delivers $53 million in tax revenue to Colorado
Related: New bank could save the pot industry – Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed…
Think we’re a love match? Spit into this tube!
“It’s kind of like science fiction almost,” said Jonathan Kirshenbaum, 33, who took the test with his then-girlfriend, now-fiance, Danielle Tennenhouse, 30. “People can cheat on personality tests. You can’t…
A record 3,415 Americans ditch their passports
As both expats and financial institutions rush to understand the new law, some banks have chosen to kick out their Americans clients rather than comply. If a bank mistakenly fails…
West Coast ports shut down as labor dispute heats up
“We want to go to work, and they’re blaming us,” said union president Robert McEllrath in a message to his members late Wednesday. He said the shutdown is a management…