The world’s most influential people still make time for a good book. Earlier this year, Facebook asked 62 such people — from Arianna Huffington to Richard Branson to Newt Gingrich — for the books they’d recommend. More than 230 titles came Facebook’s…
The impact of technology on the financial industry has been powerful. Traditional financial institutions, such as banks, have discovered that new technologies are indeed disruptive. This epiphany has forced age-old financial institutions to develop their own tech capabilities, and to stay…
Twitter fell apart in 2013 when its growth slowed signficantly in the face of competition and copying from Facebook, and users found it too hard to find the best content due to its unsorted reverse chronological feed. Its share price…
Dr. Wendy A. Suzuki is a Professor of Neural Science and Psychology in the Center for Neural Science at NYU and the the author of “Health Brain, Happy Life.” Here, she explains the positive effects of exercising to the brain. …
Cubazon. Kewelta. Knales. These aren’t house hold names in the US but they’re at the vanguard of entrepreneurship in Cuba and they’ll be joining us on stage at Disrupt New York. We’ll be talking with Bernardo Romero Gonzalez, CEO &…
Donald Trump is a big boy president who gets more ice cream than everyone else Image: tom pennington/Getty Images By Christina Careaga2017-05-11 22:04:31 UTC Is it possible to already know news before it happens, because it feels like we already…
Photo by ienjoysushi. Mondays are long, busy, stressful, and apparently, according to Instacart sales data, not very sexy. Sorry, Monday. Advertisement Using the Instacart Online Grocery Shopping Data Sheet for 2017, Owen Phillips threw together some amusing graphs regarding user…
Dutch innovator Boyan Slat‘s audacious plan to clear plastic from the marine area known as the "great Pacific garbage patch" is undergoing some major design changes. But the 22-year-old tells Business Insider that the first cleanup array is set to launch…
The movement to look — and feel — younger continues to be big business, with an endless supply of customers. According to Transparency Market Research, the global anti-aging industry will be worth nearly $200 billion by 2019. The reasons for…
New footage shot near Capistrano Beach from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department adds to the evidence that Southern California has a really bad shark problem this year. “You are paddleboarding next to approximately 15 great white sharks,” Deputy Brian Stockbridge announced…