Every year over 21 million shipping pallets end up in a landfill. Used worldwide to ship goods of all kinds in mass quantities, a Brooklyn-based design firm looked past the intended use of a pallet and saw a versatile, recyclable, sustainable and inexpensive building material that could be used to a... Read more...
Robert Axel, an eccentric inventor who through wealth and fame, finds unexpected misfortune and after many hardships is ready to redeem his name and rebuild his billion dollar empire. Read more...
AT&T Inc. (T), whose $39 billion bid for T-Mobile USA is challenged by the U.S. Justice Department, will record one-time costs of $4 billion this quarter to reflect the risks of a collapse of the deal. AT&T and T-Mobile owner Deutsche Telekom AG withdrew their applications to the... Read more...
We’ve heard time and again how time-consuming Facebook can be. Nevertheless, I always find the statistics mind-blowing: Americans spent a total of 53.5 billion minutes on Facebook in May 2011, according to the latest data from Nielsen. How does this compare to other websites? Well, American... Read more...
Facebook hosts 140 billion photos, and will add 70 billion this year, according to the blog of photo-sharing site 1000memories. Putting this in context, 1000memories made the following visualization which shows how big Facebook's library of photos are in comparison to other photo sharing sites, a... Read more...
The United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has opened an investigation into Google’s practice of saving about $1 billion a year in federal income tax by funneling profits from its US and European business units into countries with lower tax rates, Bloomberg is reporting. The techniques Go... Read more...
If you compare Twitter to other display ad based businesses, it appears the company will not be generating gobs of revenue in the future. Pascal Emmanuel Gobry at our own Business Insider Research took a look at the amount of revenue that comes from a unique visitor to display ad based busine... Read more...
In other words "Umm... I f*cked up" When Apple was at a low point, Michael Dell said of the company, "I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders." Today at the Web 2.0 Summit event in San Francisco, he said his quote was "largely misconstrued." "I'm not a CEO for hire, if ... Read more...
I'm still not exactly sure what to make of this. I dont know if this is some publicity stunt for his new Street King "1 like = 1 meal" venture (which I actually "like" d on facebook. Judge me if you want but if he's really gonna feed a child for one "like", its the least I can do) or if its legit...... Read more...