VIDEO: Storm chaser captures Texas tornado |
- VIDEO: Storm chaser captures Texas tornado
- VIDEO: 'I left engineering to be food hawker'
- Syria ex-minister leads rebuilding plan
- VIDEO: 'I left engineering to be food hawker'
- VIDEO: Homophobic abuse revealed in EU poll
- VIDEO: Eurovision: A statistical analysis
- VIDEO: Red Cross museum's 'message of hope'
- Harrison Barnes Suffers Likely Concussion, Plays Anyway
- Oil falls below $95 on choppy growth outlook
- Google Is Very Creepy, and That's What Makes It So Awesome
- 'True Grit': What It Takes To Succeed As An Entrepreneur
- Exclusive Magic 2014 Preview: Staff of the Mind Magus
- How VOD Is Pushing Movies Toward Cannes-on-Demand
- China's Foreign Direct Investment Lags
- Canada's Harper Decries 'Softening' Support for Israel
- Thousands protest against China plant
- Caterpillar Settles With Principals Of Troubled Chinese Acquisition
- Asia stocks mixed as holidays thin trade
- Euro Zone Trade Surplus Reflects Weak Demand
- Social Media Pose New Riddle for CIA
| VIDEO: Storm chaser captures Texas tornado Posted: 16 May 2013 07:50 AM PDT A tornado has ripped through a town in the US state of Texas, resulting in six deaths, officials say. |
| VIDEO: 'I left engineering to be food hawker' Posted: 16 May 2013 04:01 PM PDT Singaporean Abdus Salam started as an engineer, but left his job when he realised that his father needed help in his food stall. |
| Syria ex-minister leads rebuilding plan Posted: 16 May 2013 11:17 PM PDT
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| VIDEO: 'I left engineering to be food hawker' Posted: 16 May 2013 04:01 PM PDT Singaporean Abdus Salam started as an engineer, but left his job when he realised that his father needed help in his food stall. |
| VIDEO: Homophobic abuse revealed in EU poll Posted: 16 May 2013 11:00 PM PDT More than a quarter of gay people surveyed in a major EU poll say they have been subjected to attacks or violent threats in the past five years. |
| VIDEO: Eurovision: A statistical analysis Posted: 16 May 2013 04:01 PM PDT Derek Gatherer outlines the results of his statistical study of how Eurovision votes are cast. |
| VIDEO: Red Cross museum's 'message of hope' Posted: 16 May 2013 11:05 PM PDT The Red Cross museum in Geneva is to re-open on Friday after a renovation lasting almost two years. |
| Harrison Barnes Suffers Likely Concussion, Plays Anyway Posted: 16 May 2013 10:27 PM PDT It's a sad irony that on the same night George Hill became the first NBA player to miss a playoff game because of a concussion, another player--Harrison Barnes of the Golden State Warriors--probably stayed in a game longer than he should have. |
| Oil falls below $95 on choppy growth outlook Posted: 16 May 2013 10:20 PM PDT BANGKOK (AP) — The price of oil fell below $95 per barrel Friday after new signs of a choppy economic recovery in the U.S. |
| Google Is Very Creepy, and That's What Makes It So Awesome Posted: 16 May 2013 09:58 PM PDT Google held its annual Google I/O conference this week in San Francisco. It was highlighted by a lengthy keynote that rambled about at times, in which Google unveiled a dizzying array of new features and services that have awesome potential to transform technology and how we use it...as long as you're willing to grant Google virtually carte blanche access to monitor and manage your life. |
| 'True Grit': What It Takes To Succeed As An Entrepreneur Posted: 16 May 2013 09:23 PM PDT I was musing this week with writer and frequent collaborator Tom Lowery about what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur. He noted that over the years, he's asked multiple of his fellow entrepreneur friends what it takes to be a success in their various endeavors. His circle of friends, as mine, are a diverse and largely creative bunch, and their businesses reflect that: a public relations firm, a restaurant, a pet supply shop, a law firm, a writer's spa and an editing service. One of Tom's friends is a voice-over artist; one is a painter and another is a model. |
| Exclusive Magic 2014 Preview: Staff of the Mind Magus Posted: 16 May 2013 09:15 PM PDT Magic: the Gathering's "lucky charms" have taken various shapes and sizes over the years. In Magic 2014, it looks like players will be getting a slightly different, more expensive version. A long time ago, lucky charms looked something like this: Recently, they've looked like this: And now, they look like this: |
| How VOD Is Pushing Movies Toward Cannes-on-Demand Posted: 16 May 2013 09:14 PM PDT The 66th Cannes Film Festival kicked off this week with the premiere of Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, the most mainstream movie to open the festival since Pixar's Up in 2009. Since Cannes serves a glittery but apt prism through which to view the overall state of the movie business, it's striking to note how many films both at the festival -- and in the general U.S. marketplace -- are becoming available so quickly to the public. The reason: video on demand. |
| China's Foreign Direct Investment Lags Posted: 16 May 2013 08:35 PM PDT Foreign direct investment in China sputtered in the first four months of the year, despite renewed signs of strength from the U.S. and the European Union, showing only a modest 1.21% rise from a year ago. |
| Canada's Harper Decries 'Softening' Support for Israel Posted: 16 May 2013 07:04 PM PDT Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper criticized what he characterized as weakening support for Israel among western nations at an event in the U.S. on Thursday. |
| Thousands protest against China plant Posted: 16 May 2013 08:43 PM PDT People in Yunnan province rally against chemical plant, but government says it will bring economic growth. |
| Caterpillar Settles With Principals Of Troubled Chinese Acquisition Posted: 16 May 2013 08:47 PM PDT Ever since Caterpillar jolted investors in January with a $580 million write down of a troubled Chinese acquisition, questions have lingered over its debt obligations. Caterpillar alleged that Siwei, a mining-equipment firm in Zhengzhou, had falsely inflated its revenues over many years prior to the 2012 acquisition. Now comes news that Caterpillar has settled out of court with the former principals of Siwei. Caterpillar said Thursday that it would pay $29.5 million to the sellers in order to resolve all outstanding issues. This is considerably less than the $164.5 million that Caterpillar was contracted to pay to Emory Williams and James Thompson Jr., who controlled Siwei via a Hong Kong-listed entity, and two other parties. The agreement forestalls the possibility of litigation. But it doesn't quite end the confusion over what Caterpillar did and didn't know about Siwei before it signed on the dotted line. |
| Asia stocks mixed as holidays thin trade Posted: 16 May 2013 10:11 PM PDT
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| Euro Zone Trade Surplus Reflects Weak Demand Posted: 16 May 2013 09:56 PM PDT The trade surplus for the 17 nations that use the euro hit its highest level in March since records began in 1999, driven by a sharp rise in exports and a decline in imports as well as steadily rising exports. |
| Social Media Pose New Riddle for CIA Posted: 16 May 2013 08:08 PM PDT Effective spycraft has long called for cover—a job, family or routine that would keep a government agent from drawing undue attention. Now, that calculation extends to spies' use of social media. |
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