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Apple is reportedly talking to banks about creating its own competitor to PayPal’s Venmo

Apple is reportedly talking to banks about creating its own competitor to PayPal’s Venmo

  Apple is in talks with banks in the US about creating its own mobile-to-mobile payments service that sounds a lot like PayPal’s Venmo app,… Read More ›

Fidelity has no business investing in startups like Snapchat: NYU professor

Fidelity has no business investing in startups like Snapchat: NYU professor

  Aswath Damodaran, a New York University finance professor, doesn’t think that a big, stodgy investor like Fidelity should invest in a startup like Snapchat.… Read More ›

Here’s what’s in store for next year’s smartphones

Here’s what’s in store for next year’s smartphones

If you’re thinking about buying a new smartphone, you might want to wait just a bit. Next year’s smartphones are going to do stuff that… Read More ›

Alabama police charge 8-year-old with murder in death of 1-year-old

Alabama police charge 8-year-old with murder in death of 1-year-old

When a 1-year-old girl wouldn’t stop crying while her mother was at a club, an 8-year-old boy became annoyed and “viciously attacked” the toddler, beating… Read More ›

Lakewood Township, NJ – Official: Anti-Islamic Police Training Class Inappropriate

Lakewood Township, NJ – Official: Anti-Islamic Police Training Class Inappropriate

  Lakewood Township, NJ – New Jersey officials say it was inappropriate for a county police academy to have a self-described former Muslim terrorist speak… Read More ›

Tokyo – Japan’s First Passenger Plane In 50 Years Makes Maiden Flight

Tokyo – Japan’s First Passenger Plane In 50 Years Makes Maiden Flight

  Tokyo – Japan’s first commercial passenger plane in half a century made its maiden flight on Wednesday, in a breakthrough for the country’s long-held… Read More ›

Geneva – Rare Blue Diamond Sells For Record $48.5 Million At Auction

Geneva – Rare Blue Diamond Sells For Record $48.5 Million At Auction

  Geneva – Sotheby’s says a rare blue diamond has sold for a record 48.6 million Swiss francs ($48.5 million) at a Geneva auction, including… Read More ›

Earth-size planet may be ‘most important ever found outside solar system’

Earth-size planet may be ‘most important ever found outside solar system’

Features of newfound world ‘bode well for the long-term goal of studying cooler planets that could have life’   CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — There’s… Read More ›

Analysis: ISIS in Sinai can expect more funds, and more Egyptian attacks

Analysis: ISIS in Sinai can expect more funds, and more Egyptian attacks

A new Egyptian assault on the group now seems a matter of time following the bombing of a Russian airliner, which murdered 224 civilians.  … Read More ›

The Mizzou media professor who called for ‘muscle’ against a journalist just issued an apology

The Mizzou media professor who called for ‘muscle’ against a journalist just issued an apology

  The University of Missouri professor caught on video blocking journalists from filming protests issued an apology Tuesday evening. Melissa Click, an assistant professor of mass media,… Read More ›

The 2 main reasons people aren’t buying the Apple Watch

The 2 main reasons people aren’t buying the Apple Watch

  The Apple Watch isn’t a flop. It’s just too new. That’s the gist of some recent findings by Wristly, a research firm that surveys Apple… Read More ›

A crowd of 10,000-plus went nuts for Trump in Illinois last night — pundits are still underestimating him

A crowd of 10,000-plus went nuts for Trump in Illinois last night — pundits are still underestimating him

  Business Insider is following Donald Trump on the campaign trail this week. Last night, Trump spoke at a rally in Springfield, Illinois. More than… Read More ›

Italy – Prosecutors Investigate Olive Oil Makers For Selling Ordinary Olive Oil As Highly Prized Extra-Virgin

Italy – Prosecutors Investigate Olive Oil Makers For Selling Ordinary Olive Oil As Highly Prized Extra-Virgin

  Italy – Prosecutors are investigating seven olive oil producers for fraudulently selling ordinary olive oil as highly prized extra-virgin. Prosecutors in the northern city… Read More ›

New York, NY – Manhattan’s Building Boom A Quandary For Aging Office Complex

New York, NY – Manhattan’s Building Boom A Quandary For Aging Office Complex

  New York, NY – A new skyline rising across Manhattan poses a challenge for the owners of the city’s aging office buildings as they… Read More ›

Washington – Man Arrested For Using Slingshot Outside White House Fence

Washington – Man Arrested For Using Slingshot Outside White House Fence

  Washington –  Secret Service officials say they arrested a man outside the White House after he used a slingshot to fire a small object… Read More ›

South Side Chicago community in shock over killing of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee

South Side Chicago community in shock over killing of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee

Chicago – People in the Auburn-Gresham neighborhood have become used to the shootings that have plagued much of Chicago’s South Side for decades. But even here,… Read More ›

Ill ‘Star Wars’ fan who saw movie early dies

Ill ‘Star Wars’ fan who saw movie early dies

Daniel Fleetwood, a “Star Wars” fan whose dying wish was to see the upcoming movie, died this week. “He is now one with God and… Read More ›

Were fake bomb detectors used by hotel security in Sharm el-Sheikh?

Were fake bomb detectors used by hotel security in Sharm el-Sheikh?

  As authorities investigate whether a bomb could have been smuggled aboard Metrojet Flight 9268, CNN has seen private security personnel in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt,… Read More ›

TRUMP: Hillary Clinton is running for president ‘because she wants to stay out of jail’

TRUMP: Hillary Clinton is running for president ‘because she wants to stay out of jail’

  Real-estate mogul Donald Trump suggested Monday that former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would have serious legal problems if he gets to appoint… Read More ›

Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘Why would you buy a PC anymore?’

Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘Why would you buy a PC anymore?’

  Apple CEO Tim Cook is out beating the drum for the 12-inch iPad Pro tablet, which launches later this week, and he doesn’t really… Read More ›