The world's most famous cancer survivor has been his foundation's biggest asset, even as it grew into an innovative force in health care. Now his legal troubles may make him a risk.READ»
Two positive drug tests for Tour de France winner Alberto Contador have raised new questions about doping in cycling, U.S. champion Lance Armstrong's own involvement, and how a scandal might affect his charity work. But the CEO of Armstrong's Livestrong insists the Contador news "isn't on my radar." Here's why.READ»
Despite consistent negative chatter from tech journos and analysts, RIM (BlackBerry) put up some crazy-strong numbers this quarter, with a 68% jump in profit.READ»
Watch out, Toyota, Nissan, and Mitsubishi. Fellow Asian car company Hyundai is gunning for the growing electric vehicle market with an EV of its own.READ»
Fast Company's Adam L. Penenberg tweets the breaking news about a verdict against Ford in the death of rising Mets star Brian Cole. As reporters lagged behind on the story, Penenberg discovered a new media use for the 140-character format.READ»
While Facebook may be peddling its vanilla morals to the rest of the world with its ban on aureolae and pot leaves, more subversive stuff may be slipping through the net. An AP report highlights the rise of the use of social networks ...READ»
WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, had an arrest warrant issued against him in Sweden, based on a rape accusation. But it was withdrawn within 24 hours. A molestation accusation still stands. Is it a conspiracy?READ»
Remember when DirecTV and TiVo were best pals? It didn't last. But now DirecTV has a big, bad mother of a new best friend: Google. It'll be selling ad time on some of DirecTV's channels. But isn't this confusing?READ»
Details emerge about Hurd's alleged payments of up to $20,000 to a woman whose job was to attend parties, make introductions, dine alone with the now former CEO. READ»
In possibly the worst incidence of deja vu in recent memory, BP says that it still might drill in the massive oil reservoir where the Deepwater Horizon leak unleashed over 4 million gallons of oil.READ»
The Gulf oil disaster obliterated the BP brand name. It's a deserved problem for the company, but what of all the BP gas station owners now faced with a tarnished reputation and declining sales?READ»
Amazon shot off an innocuous news release last night announcing that several heavyweights of literature would soon be joining its Kindle Store roster, including Salman Rushdie, Vladimir Nabokov, and Philip Roth. These big gains for ...READ»
BP has been toying with the idea of using actor Kevin Costner's Ocean Therapy technology to clean up the Gulf oil disaster for the past month. Once we got over the Waterworld jokes, we realized that the centrifuge-like device is ...READ»
The hot news doctrine, created a century ago to prevent telegraphy from spoiling the prospects of East Coast newspapers, is having a resurgence in the digital era. It's just been used to squash publications by financial news ...READ»
Ford MI news bit about Ford Motor Company’s announcement about first quarter gains led to initial share increases, but stocks continue to slip despite profit report. READ»
Twitter's devotees already respect the network as more than a series of text messages, but Agence-France Presse apparently does not. Their lawsuit against a photographer who uploaded photos to TwitPic underlines Twitter's emergence as a legitimate news source--and competition.READ»
Move over Ryan Leaf, Tony Mandarich and Charles Rogers. The NFL has another contender for biggest draft bust.After three years, more than $39 million and only Nike Air Max shoes seven wins as the starting quarterback for the ...READ»
"We open governments," states the Twitter bio of WikiLeaks, a whistle-blowing website that broke the story of a U.S. helicopter attack in Iraq three years ago. Over a dozen people were killed, including two Reuters journalists, and ...READ»
"Someone made an AIM account and posed as me. They were telling everyone I was a lesbian!" "Me and my friends Photoshopped our other friend to make it seem like he had man-boobs." "My boyfriend texts other girls all the time and ...READ»
Indie film buffs rejoice: Netflix announced it has secured agreements to stream films from several independent and foreign film companies, including The Criterion Collection, Gravitas Ventures, Kino Lorber, Music Box Films, ...READ»
The Koran holds that it illuminates the Fourth Heaven of the Moslems. Apricot Christian attitude connected brash the blood-red apricot emblematic of Christ's couldn’t. Legend claims that Noah humiliated a abounding apricot in the ...READ»
I suspect that they will see actions against China about this.Jewelry earrings has been used by early mankind, archeological findings & studies suggests that ornaments or jewelries was once used to strap in the clothings as ...READ»
