Too Mooch to Handle Whoever said communications wasn’t a real college degree clearly had never met Anthony Scaramucci. “The Mooch” was fired on Monday after a mere ten day run as the newly hired co…
VPN Removal
A Pressure COOKer Disaster Apple removed major virtual private network (VPN) apps from its China stores due to regulation violations. This decision, headed by CEO Tim Cook, could potentially preven…
Bezos Richer Than Gates
Mr. Moneybags Amazon founder Jeff Bezos briefly overtook Bill Gates to become the world’s richest person; his net worth hitting $91.4 billion. But, as Amazon shares slipped, Mr Gates regained…
The Doctor is Out
Pills Don’t Pay the Bills Attention all hypochondriacs: Internet Brands, run by the private equity group KKR, announced that it will acquire WebMD for $2.8 billion in cash. With WebMD’s trusted pla…
Leadership Change in the White House
New Faces Cause Ripples at the White House President Donald Trump sought to impose order in the White House in the face of a widening Russia investigation. White House press secretary Sean Spicer r…
Make Infrastructure Great Again
Musk’s Underground Hyperloop Elon Musk said on Twitter that he received “verbal government approval” to build an underground Hyperloop transit network connecting New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore a…
Amazon Takes on Instagram and Pinterest
Amazon’s New Marketplace Amazon launched Amazon Spark yesterday – think Instagram, but all around products we love with Yelp-like reviews next to them. Instead of like buttons Amazon calls th…
Winter is Here
*Spoiler Alert* The North Remembers Plot twist: Ed Sheeran #wins Game of Thrones. From the British singer’s guest appearance to the deaths of yet another hundred characters, the highly-anticipated …
Now You See Me
Now You Don’t Oculus standalone VR headsets will roll out as soon 2018. Facebook is developing a model that doesn’t require a connected PC or smartphone and will face competition from Samsung’s sta…
Amazon Prime Day
In Her Prime It looks like Alexa might just get employee of the month after all. During Prime Day, Amazon sold a record number of Echo devices incentivized by discounts. Compared to last year’s Pri…