Google's Sergey Brin puts his money where his meat is, funding the world's first test-tube hamburger in a bid to change the way the world eats. Tesla's Elon Musk pushes space tourism as a down payment on ensuring our intergalactic salvation. And Amazon's Jeff Bezos buys the Washington Post ...
In a few hours, cars will roll into the Family Drive-In Theatre and settle into neat lines next to row upon row of waist-high speaker poles. For tonight at least, that is just as it was during the first show in 1956."These speakers and posts are getting harder to deal with because there's only ...
Netflix's Internet video subscription service works around the clock, but it's unusual for more than two dozen of the company's engineers and top managers to be huddled in a conference room at 10:30 on a midsummer Wednesday evening.This is a special occasion. It's near the end of a grueling day ...
If you're like most Americans, you don't wear a wristwatch. But increasingly, electronics companies are betting you'll slap one on your wrist if it's more like a smartphone than a simple timepiece.In the past year, Sony and startup Pebble have released devices called "smart watches" because ...
5Instead, the 27-year-old from Cincinnati goes to a website before the day's Major League Baseball games begin and picks players who he expects will hit and pitch better than players selected by other bettors. When the players do well in the real games, Batsche, who pays $2 to play, can win as ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- David Karp, founder and chief executive of Tumblr, rang the Nasdaq opening bell Friday to celebrate his company's $1.1 billion acquisition by Yahoo Inc.Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was on hand to take pictures and cheer on the Tumblr team. Turns out the Tumblr team had even more to ...
