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Yana Paskova/Getty Images Amazon is reportedly planning to name Long Island City neighborhood in Queens, New York half of its second headquarters, HQ2. HQ2 — which The New York Times reports will be split between New York and Crystal City, Virginia — will create roughly 25,000 new jobs in the area. HQ2 sounds like a great […]
Enlarge (credit: Peter Bright / Flickr) The last few Windows Insider preview builds of Windows 10 have offered few new features and have instead focused on fixing bugs. The latest build, released today, takes a step toward completion: it has changed the operating system’s version stamp. Until now, the previews have called themselves version 1803, […]
Mark Wilson/Getty Images The House Intelligence Committee released the transcript of a heated meeting that took place earlier this week, during which members voted to release a Democratic rebuttal to the Nunes memo released earlier this month. The meeting quickly took two separate paths, with Republicans targeting the FBI and Democrats targeting the White House. […]
David McNew/Getty Images The broader market could hurt oil in particular. It’s not just oil prices that could fall in the near term, it’s oil company fundamentals that are in quesiton. Financial markets found their footing on Tuesday, although ongoing volatility shows that we are not out of the woods yet. For oil prices, […]
Business Insider Business Insider’s Henry Blodget and Sara Silverstein discuss the argument that we’re nearing “peak media” in the US. According to a recent study, the average US adult spends 12 hours a day consuming tech and media, and Blodget says that’s been driven by the rise of the internet. He doesn’t see the amount of time […]
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Societe Generale warns that if 10-year Treasury yields climb above 2.5%, that could result in a US equity sell off. US stocks are close to the most expensive on record, and their position of strength is getting increasingly tenuous. While many stock bulls have focused for months on positive corporate fundamentals — most notably earnings […]
The rights to the next big screen adventure of James Bond have been up in the air ever since Sony Pictures’ deal with 007 owners Eon Productions and MGM expired following the release of Spectre in 2015. Since then, we’ve been wondering which studio would pick up the rights to James Bond, and it looks like we […]
Getty Images Amazon is quickly becoming a significant outlet for more advertisers. More marketers are selling products via the e-commerce giant and need to run ads. It’s not clear where Amazon’s ad budgets will come from long term. It’s constantly referred to as a “sleeping giant” in ad circles. WPP CEO Martin Sorrell says it […]
Back in 2015, Amazon launched a program called Underground that gave users free access to paid Android apps and in-app purchases. For those who’ve never heard of it before, you can think of it as a way to find applications you never knew existed or to try fun or useful ones you’d typically ignore. You […]
