Prince Harry's interview with Barack Obama aired on the BBC's Radio 4 on Wednesday. The royal sat down with the former president to discuss social media's effect on society. While Obama did credit social media to part of his political success, he acknowledged a bubble phemonenon, saying one of the dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities.
What do you get the Kardashian who has everything? Stock - and lots of it. Kanye West gave his wife Kim Kardashian hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stocks for Christmas. including Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Disney, and Adidas.
Americans are expected to send back approximately $90 billion dollars worth of goods, according to reports from Optoro, a firm that tracks the business of return shipments. The firm notes that January is peak time for all returns, but 40 percent of holiday returns happen immediately after Christmas, between December 26th and 31st.
Monthly VC funding fell below $20 billion in February, marking a two-year low. Jager McConnell, CEO of Crunchbase, joined Cheddar News to discuss the current funding climate and what lies ahead.
Longtime Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is facing sharp questioning before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee where he is defending the company’s actions during an ongoing unionizing campaign.
Apple Pay is getting in on the buy now pay later boom with a feature allowing users to split purchases into four separate payments over six weeks at no additional cost or interest.
UBS says it’s bringing back former CEO Sergio Ermotti to lead the Swiss bank as it moves forward with a government-orchestrated plan to take over struggling rival Credit Suisse.
San Francisco-based technology startup Illumix just closed a $18 million Series A round of funding, and in a rare move for the Shark Tank star, Mark Cuban contributed.
Austin Graff, founder and CIO of Opal Capital in Austin, Texas, offers his take on why stocks opened higher Wednesday, saying investors appear tentatively optimistic about regulatory actions being taken around struggling banks, even as they remain worried about the long-term consequences of federal action on the sector. "
Credit Suisse violated a plea agreement with U.S. authorities by failing to report secret offshore accounts that wealthy Americans used to avoid paying taxes, U.S. lawmakers said Wednesday.
