Recommended Reading: The ‘Stories’ invasion won’t relent anytime soon

Why ‘Stories’ Took Over Your Smartphone Ian Bogost, The Atlantic Snapchat may have created the monster, but in nearly every social (and some not-so-social) app you fire up, you’ll be greeted with a feed of Stories. In fact, Facebook says the format is on pace to be more popular than a primary feed as the […]

Emirates Plans to Add Its New First Class Suites to Its A380s — but Not Anytime Soon

Emirates to Add Its New First Class Suites to Its A380s Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site […]

Patrick Reed did not wear his signature color at the Masters and he likely won’t be allowed to wear it at the majors anytime soon

Andrew Redington/Getty Images Patrick Reed won the Masters, but he did not do it wearing his signature color. Reed usually wears red during the final round as a tribute to Tiger Woods. The move has upset a lot of golf fans. At the Masters, Nike stepped in and forced Reed to wear pink as part […]

US ready ‘anytime’ for direct N. Korea talks – Tillerson

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said all that stands between direct diplomacy with North Korea is their willingness “to come to the table” with a desire to “make a different choice.” “We’re ready to talk anytime they’d like to talk,” Tillerson said about North Korea on Tuesday afternoon. This shift away from US policy […]

The market doesn’t think the Fed will take away the punch bowl anytime soon — and it’s the Fed’s own doing

Bloomberg The Federal Reserve concluded its two-day meeting on Wednesday. Investors had anticipated no change in the central bank’s interest rate policy, nor an imminent decision to shrink its $ 4.5 trillion balance sheet. They were not surprised. The only significant change in the Fed statement was that the process of not investing all the […]

Google Chrome is getting a MAJOR upgrade (but not anytime soon)

Google has published more details about its next blockbuster update for Google Chrome. The web browser – which is comfortably the most popular in the world – is set to introduce ad-blocking on its desktop and mobile app, Google has confirmed. The feature was rumoured back in April, with the California-based technology company staying tight-lipped […]