Screenwriter Arash Amel worked as a professor and media analyst, pitching scripts relentlessly until he got his shot. His film "Grace of Monaco" premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014 to harsh reviews. Amel's…
The 5 best features coming to Apple Maps…
The next version of iOS will bring some changes to Apple Maps. Apple Apple Maps has long played second fiddle to Google Maps, but the company is trying to change that in a big way…
Game Giant Blizzard Lambasted for Alleged Cynical Hiring…
In the wake of mass layoffs that saw over 800 employees leave the company back in early 2019, Blizzard is once again hiring for identical positions in what ex-employees are branding a cynical move. A…
Amazon’s stock price on its 25th anniversary shows…
Amazon was founded 25 years ago today, on July 5, 1994. The company was the second in the US to hit a market capitalization of $1 trillion in 2018, but had a long road to…
Bitcoin’s Energy Use Isn’t Crazy, Rivals Switzerland’s Power…
The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance has released an index of sorts devoted to macro data about Bitcoin, all of it relating to electricity consumption. China and the U.S. rank No. 1 and No. 2,…
Three Hot Gaming Stocks Appear Ready to Skyrocket
As U.S. indices hit all-time highs, you probably don’t want to look at stocks that are also trading at or near their all-time highs. Instead, you might want to discover names that are far from…
After a strong jobs report, Wall Street expects…
Yuri Gripas/Reuters The US economy added 224,000 jobs in June, more than economists expected. The Friday jobs report was a positive economic data point showing that the longest economic expansion is still running. The stock…
Troubled Bitcoin Market Hedges $156 Million on a…
The knock was loud, the breaking of the door, louder. The bulls of the bitcoin market broke into a joke shop, which was lying deserted for the last three months, with $156 million worth of…
Check out the first job listing Jeff Bezos…
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Drew Angerer/Getty Images In August 1994, a little-known entrepreneur posted a job listing to Usenet, a pre-web message board. He was looking for "extremely talented" software developers to "help…