NEW YORK  – Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) shares jumped as much as 22 percent on Thursday, putting them on track for their biggest one-day gain, as the social media company easily beat Wall Street’s revenue and profit estimates by selling more ads even though it lost users after purging millions of fake accounts. The surge in […]

The NBC News star also may be relinquishing her daytime show, reports say. Megyn Kelly fired her agent Wednesday after news leaked that the NBC News star might be relinquishing her daytime show, according to a source directly familiar with the situation. The source said Kelly parted ways with her agent Matt DelPiano, of Creative […]

The bans issued to Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov have been extended by the Nevada State Athletic Commission until an investigation into the brawl that followed their UFC lightweight world title fight is completed. Following his victory on 7 October, Nurmagomedov jumped the octagon fence and started fighting his rival’s team. McGregor then fought with […]

Something occurred to me during one of my self analytical sessions when I actually take the time to consider who I am, what motivates me and what I want. People are obsessed with popularity, comparison and being “happy”. Most people do not know what any of these actually mean, especially not the happy thing. So […]

Maybe it’s karma for naming your network ‘AintNoWifi’? There are countless reasons why the WiFi at your office is going slow. No, really, we tried to count the number of ‘slow WiFi’ queries we’ve received in the last month from our customers and we had to stop after 13 (probably to reply to a customer […]

SAN FRANCISCO – When Tesla Inc posts third-quarter results on Wednesday, Chief Executive Elon Musk may show off a long-promised quarterly profit, as production of his Model 3 electric sedan takes off. But the real question is whether any such gains will be sustainable. Since May, Musk has promised that the company will post quarterly […]

Suspected explosive devices were sent to former US President Barack Obama and ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the US Secret Service has said. It comes two days after a bomb was found at the home of liberal philanthropist and financier George Soros in the suburbs of New York City. The devices were discovered by technicians […]

Open risk-taking is a bad idea. But calculated risk-taking is something else again. It’s not uncommon to hear the advice that entrepreneurs should take more calculated risks if they want to be successful. In fact, some billionaires have built their personal brands on a foundation of risk; as an example, Richard Branson often speaks of the […]

A case for innovating without the blindfold Picture this: they were some of the smartest minds in the world working in NASA. They completed the first lunar vehicle and send it to space and encountered a serious issue: the light bulbs kept exploding. They spent considerable time and money trying to solve this issue by reinforcing […]

On the effects of counterproductivity, and how better technology consumes more time than it saves. Once upon a time, women were forced to spend all their time burdened with housework. But then, to their rescue came technology. With the creation of vacuum cleaners, dishwashers and washing machines, technology liberated women and gave them more time to […]