On Monday (June 18), Google announced it would invest $550 million in JD.com, the Chinese e-commerce company that competes against Alibaba. The deal comes as the US tech giant revamps its China strategy. The company has had a marginal presence in the country since March 2010, when authorities shut down its search engine for mainland…

Flexibility is key when dealing with volatile commodities like oil and natural gas. These two oil majors have the most room to move.

Supermarket giants are urgently recalling sausage rolls and pies over fears they could be laced with wire.

HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) — Three sports memorabilia collectors who accused New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning of providing bogus "game-worn" equipment that was sold to unsuspecting fans settled their lawsuit against the Super Bowl-winning quarterback on Monday, days before the case was scheduled to go to trial.

The end of the world is coming a lot sooner than expected – at least in the fictional world created by They Might Be Giants in the band’s new music video for “By The Time You Get This.” The alt-rock group primarily made up of John Flansburgh and John Linnell shared the new video late […]

The Health Secretary has accused companies including Facebook and Instagram of ‘turning a blind eye’ to the harm being done to ‘a whole generation of children’.

How tall is tall for a human, and when are they considered giants? Are there annunaki bones held hostage by the nefarious Smithsonian Institution? These thorny topics are tackled by Kevin Randle deconstructing the claims, the reality, and the ongoing fake-news cycle perpetuated by evil but well-meaning forteans. More high adventure hails from North Carolina […]

David Halperin sees a kind of “metaphoric truth” in Erich von Daniken’s belief in giants, although he has quibbles as to what the term “giants” should mean. With “Chariots of the Gods” at 50: An Early German Review Jason Colavito examines some of the weaknesses noted early on about von Daniken’s first book. In Impossible […]

From: Bill Gates Memo: Dial back the Silicon Valley hubris, or the government will do it for you.

As headlines like “Amazon Is Secretly Becoming a Bank” and “Google Wants to Be a Bank Now” increasingly crop up in the news, tech giants are coming into the spotlight as the next potential payments disruptors. To mitigate potential losses under this scenario, traditional players will have to grasp not only the level of the threat, but also which […]