BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Forget about statistics for employment and industrial production, it is being claimed that the price of a hamburger is showing where Europe's economic reforms are working - and where they are not. By studying the different p... [Full Article]
We realize there's only so much time one can spend in a day watching new trailers, viral video clips, and shaky cell phone footage of people arguing on live television. This is why every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the videos that truly ear... [Full Article]
Seinfeld has never left our pop culture lexicon. Just recently we've seen it referenced in the presidential race and in Game of Thrones parodies. But what would the seminal "show about nothing" be like if its characters could use cell ... [Full Article]
U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh on Monday ruled that the patents included in the HTC and Apple settlement agreement must be made public, CNET reported. Other details such as pricing and royalty rates, however, will remain private. Koh's decision c... [Full Article]
If you bought Facebook shares in the May IPO and held onto them, by Monday morning you would have lost more than half your investment -- and not see any encouraging signs of making your money back. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
When it rains, it pours. And in RIM's case, it turns into a Noah-style biblical flood. Bloomberg News, via The Financial Post, reports that the troubled BlackBerry maker is now facing pressure from mobile carriers to slash the fees it charges them in... [Full Article]
Free apps are all well and good when you're looking to save a few bucks, but new research suggests they might have you reaching for the battery charger more often than you would if you were using paid apps. And then there's the long-term implications... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - A man stands near a screen, which displays portraits of the candidates and shows the preliminary results of the presidential elections, at the Central Election Commission headquarters in Moscow March 4, 2012. Vladimir Putin won a resoundi... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Participants run during the fifth annual Urban Iditarod, which takes place on the same day that the Alaskan Iditarod starts, in Salt Lake City March 3, 2012. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY)... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - A seller shows a gift, which looks like a driving license bearing the face of presidential candidate and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, in St. Petersburg March 3, 2012. Russians will go to the polls for their presidential election... [Full Article]