Friday, 29 July 2016

Tech shares and muted GDP growth push S&P 500 to record

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street rose on Friday, with the S&P 500 index hitting a record intraday high for the seventh time this month as gains in technology heavyweights Alphabet and Amazon more than made up for losses in energy shares.


Sunday, 24 July 2016

Wasserman Schultz resigning as party leader

Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced Sunday she is stepping down as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee at the end of the party's convention, which is set to begin here Monday.


Tuesday, 19 July 2016

Pokemon Go is a hit at Hot Topic, but hardly happening at Home Depot

poketopic As Pokemon Go moves into the real-world partner marketing business with McDonald's, one might wonder what businesses potentially stand to gain the most from association with Niantic's world dominating location-based collect'em game. Well, Red Robin should plan a Squirtleburger™, if data gathered by location analytics firm Placed is any indication. The company used info… Read More


Here are Michelle Obama and Melania Trump's speeches, side-by-side

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Now you can decide for yourself whether Melania Trump ripped off Michelle Obama's speech during the first night of the Republican National Convention. There are multiple videos doing the round online that show the two speeches cut side-by-side, comparing Obama's address at the Democratic National Convention in 2008 and Trump's from Monday night.



The similarities are hard to deny, yet Trump's camp said the claims are ludicrous.


"To think that she would do something like that knowing how scrutinized her speech was going to be last night is just really absurd," Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort told CNN. Read more...


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Monday, 18 July 2016

Calvin Harris and Tinashe are apparently dating now

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The world has been waiting patiently, with bated breath, for any slight movement from Calvin Harris following his public split with Taylor Swift. 


Since then, we have witnessed a series of Swift-exposing comments and a new song allegedly about Taylor's relationship with Tom Hiddleston. Now it seems as if the Scottish DJ is in the throes of a budding romance with R&B singer Tinashe



“They have been seeing each other on the DL," a source told Page Six. "It's only been weeks, so it's still pretty casual right now. They've been on a few dates." According to the publication, the two met in 2014. That same year, Harris released a track featuring Tinashe called "Dollar Signs." More recently, Tinashe was featured on a leaked Harris track, "5 AM."  Read more...


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