CoinLab Attracts $500,000 in Venture Capital for Bitcoin Projects

CoinLab Attracts $500,000 in Venture Capital for Bitcoin Projects


CoinLab Attracts $500,000 in Venture Capital for Bitcoin Projects

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 10:25 PM PDT

In the first official venture capital raise for a direct investment in bitcoin, CoinLab secured $500,000 today from seed stage Silicon Valley firm Draper Associates and others, including angel investor Geoff Entress, former assistant treasurer at Jack Jolley, and familiar bitcoin investor Roger Ver. Jolley will also join the company as its Chief Financial Officer. ...


If I Want To Invest $5,000 As A New Angel Investor, What Chances Do I Have Of Making A Profit In 5 Years?

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 10:20 PM PDT

If I want to invest $5,000 as a new angel investor, what chances do I have of making a profit in 5 years? This question was originally answered on Quora by David S. Rose.


Peter Drucker Goes Bananas

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 09:30 PM PDT

Among the most important tasks for any manager, Peter Drucker told us, is "to make sure that today?s decisions will bear fruit." But what if the fruit rots? That's precisely the difficulty that Dole Food has faced, with bananas turning from ripe and firm to mottled and soft after three to five days. "The No. ...


VIDEO: Ireland loan pay back faltering

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 10:32 PM PDT

One of Ireland's key plans to pay back its EU/IMF bailout loan appears to be faltering as a 100 euro levy tax is being fiercely resisted.


South Sudan president seeks support in China

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 10:01 PM PDT

The president of newly independent South Sudan is lobbying China for investment in his country's oil industry and diplomatic support in an escalating conflict with Sudan that's threatening to become an all-out war.


Barry Diller Says Designer Wife Diane von Furstenberg Calls Herself "Willy Loman"

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 10:09 PM PDT

We learned a lot yesterday at IAC chief ?s all-star lunch for director Mike Nichols and his production of ?Death of a Salesman.? The play picked up several Outer Critics Circle nominations at 11am, including Best Revival of a Play, Best Director, Best Actor (Philip Seymour Hoffman), and Best Featured Actor (Andrew Garfield). I actually ...


Exclusive: China firm boasts about missile-linked North Korea sale: envoys

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 10:04 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A Chinese firm that intelligence agencies believe provided North Korea with the body of an off-road transport vehicle used to carry missiles appears to have a press release on its website that boasts about the sale, U.N. diplomats told Reuters. Washington suspects that the Chinese firm, Hubei Sanjiang Space Wanshan Special Vehicle Co., did not sell North Korea an entire vehicle, but a chassis, and may have believed it was for civilian purposes, suggesting the company did not intentionally flout U.N. sanctions, a U.S. official said. ...


Venezuela's Chavez calls home to squash death rumors

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 08:31 PM PDT

Caracas city Mayor Rodriguez attends the United Socialist Party weekly news conference in CaracasCARACAS (Reuters) - A healthy sounding President Hugo Chavez called Venezuelan state television from Cuba on Monday to dispel rumors fanned by a nine-day silence that he had died undergoing cancer treatment at a hospital in Havana. "It seems we will have to become accustomed to live with these rumors, because it is part of the laboratories of psychological war, of dirty war," the 57-year-old socialist leader said in the telephone call. ...



Exclusive: China firm boasts about missile-linked North Korea sale: envoys

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 10:19 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A Chinese firm that intelligence agencies believe provided North Korea with the body of an off-road transport vehicle used to carry missiles appears to have a press release on its website that boasts about the sale, U.N. diplomats told Reuters.


Style Boxes and the Efficient Frontier

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 09:00 PM PDT

Over the past few weeks we?ve been examining the investment science behind asset allocation. We learned that risk generally follows return. We learned that tilting small and value can boost returns. And we learned that blending investments near the efficient frontier can make even more efficient portfolios. In our fall conference at Dimensional Funds, Fama ...


Tony Bennett on Britney Spears: "I Don't Know What She Does"

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 08:54 PM PDT

Amy Winehouse?s dad, Mitch, was in New York last night for the premiere screening of ?The Zen of Bennett,? the moving new documentary about Tony Bennett made by his manager son, Danny. Some parts of ?The Zen of Bennett? had already appeared in a promotional film about Tony Bennett?s latest duets album. But Mitch Winehouse ...


'Land of Dreams': Rosanne Cash Is the Voice of Discover America

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 08:59 PM PDT

Today marked the launch of Discover America, the "the first ever global tourism campaign for the United States." And for the voice of the campaign???the voice of America???Brand USA chose singer/songwriter Rosanne Cash.


N. Korea vows to turn South's leadership to ashes

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 06:40 PM PDT

A North Korean military officer points at a diagram of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) which separates the two Koreas at a building in Panmunjom, North Korea Monday, April 23, 2012. North Korea promised Monday to reduce South Korea's conservative government North Korea sharply escalated the rhetoric against its southern rival, claiming it will soon conduct "special actions" that would reduce South Korea's conservative government to ashes within minutes.



China punishes 20 officals after village protests

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 07:37 PM PDT

Chinese authorities have punished 20 officials and former village leaders after the community in southern China engaged in mass protests over land disputes that drove out local officials.


U.S. meeting with China to avoid unfolding murder case

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 08:44 PM PDT

When U.S. and Chinese officials sit down next week for their first high-level meeting in months, a number of difficult subjects will be on the table, from trade and currency disputes to human rights, cyber attacks, Syria and North Korea.

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E.U. suspends most Burma sanctions

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 08:25 PM PDT

LUXEMBOURG — The European Union agreed Monday to suspend most of its sanctions against Burma for a year despite a dispute over a parliamentary oath between the army-backed ruling party and pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Venezuela's Chavez calls home to squash death rumors

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 08:31 PM PDT

CARACAS (Reuters) - A healthy sounding President Hugo Chavez called Venezuelan state television from Cuba on Monday to dispel rumors fanned by a nine-day silence that he had died undergoing cancer treatment at a hospital in Havana.


Hama shelling undermines Syria truce

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 07:38 PM PDT

Demonstrators protest against Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad in KafranbelBEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian army killed more than 20 people in Hama on Monday, activists said, shattering a week of relative quiet in the central city visited a day earlier by U.N. monitors laying the ground for a wider mission to oversee a shaky 11-day ceasefire. A small group of unarmed observers has been in Syria for a week, tracking the truce between forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and opponents inspired by 'Arab Spring' uprisings in North Africa and elsewhere in the Middle East. ...



VIDEO: Violence continues in Bahrain

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 06:59 PM PDT

Protestors in Bahrain have clashed with police during the funeral of an activist found dead over the weekend.