The Super Bowl has been called “The Marketer’s Holiday” for good reason. At $5 million for a 30-second spot, it’s one of the highest-grossing media events in the world. And with all the hype around previews before The Big Game, it’s become a frenzy to follow all the activity of the big brands before and […]

It looks like Bitcoin is going to take over the world after all. The capitalization is ceaseless, and every time it grows a couple of Ks, the fan base is only getting bigger. Not blind to the fact, entrepreneurs are looking at more advanced ways to make profit aside from simply buying and selling bitcoin. […]

Engineers at Russia's top nuclear research facility have reportedly been detained after they attempted to mine bitcoin on its computers. Several employees at Russia's nuclear centre in the city of Sarov have been detained after making “an attempt to use the work computing facilities for personal ends, …

In its most serious engagement in neighboring Syria since fighting there began in 2011, Israel shot down an infiltrating Iranian drone Saturday and struck Iranian targets deep in Syria before one of its own jets was downed. The sudden escalation offers what could be a harbinger of what lies ahead as the Syrian fighting winds […]

The surging popularity of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies offers a vision of a more efficient world where individuals can deal directly with each other without trusted centralised institutions. That’s the positive narrative , but technology has promised many things in the past, only for them to either fail or take a lot longer to hit critical mass. But how will it […]

In its ongoing efforts to redefine popular beauty standards as part of its decade-long Real Beauty campaigns, Dove learned the hard way about the thin line that exists between positive social message and controversy. For a company that has so successfully promoted positive body image in the past, it must have come as a shock that an idea […]

Amazon is planning to debut a package-delivery service for businesses that’s designed to compete directly with FedEx and UPS, according to a new report. The Wall Street Journal’s Laura Stevens reported Friday that the e-commerce giant would roll out the service, called Shipping with Amazon, or SWA, in Los Angeles over the next few weeks. The service […]

It should come as no surprise that the CEOs of Blockchain and Chain, two leading companies in the bitcoin and blockchain industry, have both personally bought into cryptocurrencies. But their investing strategies sound different, and a lot more restrained, than the broader, vocal crypto crowd. On a panel at the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit: Crypto on […]

RIPPLE managing director Danny Aranda has played down fears of volatile market conditions, insisting it “is a good thing” for cryptocurrency because it “brings an interest” to the wider concept of digital currency. Ripple, whose XRP operates alongside the likes of bitcoin and ethereum in the popular cryptocurrency marketplace, have witnessed the same market shifts […]

Sometimes stocks fall because of bad news, sometimes they fall because of good news, and other times they fall because of no news at all. The last week has been some combination of the last two. During that time, if you’ve managed to avoid CNBC, the Dow Jones industrial average is now down a total […]