The Apple Watch may not seem like the perfect swimming companion — it only has a waterproof rating of IPX7, which should be enough to protect it from a few rain drops. But the wearable surprised everyone when one brave YouTuber uploaded a video of him taking the Watch on a few laps of the local pool. Developers Active in Time have gone one step further, and released a video
Introduction and design Lulzbot 3D printers are visually distinctive with their black steel metal frames and show of 3D printed parts. The inner workings are all on display and make the printer look like it’s been taken from some kind of science lab. Actually that’s not too far from the truth as Aleph Objects, the company behind the Lulzbot line of printers, bases much of its products on the work
(Reuters) – Online polling company SurveyMonkey has named former HP executive Bill Veghte chief executive, succeeding Dave Goldberg, who died in an accident in May after helping build it into one of the biggest privately held companies in Silicon Valley. Veghte will join the company Aug. 3 and will also take a board seat, SurveyMonkey said in an announcement. A former Microsoft executive who joined HP in 2010, Veghte takes
The housing outlook for the second half of 2015 is all about affordability-for buying and renting.
With their country struggling to stave off financial collapse, Greek officials restarted talks with skeptical creditors on a new rescue deal, but showed up Tuesday without the concrete proposals their …
Puerto Rico failed in its bid to revive a restructuring law that investors say conflicts with the U.S. bankruptcy code, a blow to the commonwealth as it falls deeper into a fiscal crisis. Lawyers for Puerto Rico had asked the U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston to reinstate a local law to help it deal with $72 billion in debt.
U.S. employers advertised slightly more job openings in May, a sign of an increasingly energized economy where companies are expecting continued growth. The Labor Department said Tuesday that the number …
Donald Trump has built billions of dollars in personal wealth. If you can jump through hoops and endure years of working for Trump, his matching contributions are more generous than average. If you contribute 6 percent of your salary, Trump will kick in 4.5 percent.
Investors have been craving a transition from oppressive global macro themes to more localized corporate stories. Perhaps we’ll finally get such a reprieve, as company performance commands more headlines.
The move underscores the growth prospects of Hostess as well as its quick turnaround. In 2013 the Kansas City, Missouri-based company was picked up from bankruptcy by private equity firm Apollo Global Management LLC (APO.N) and consumer industry investor C. Dean Metropoulos for $410 million. Hostess, which launched a process to sell itself earlier this year, snubbed offers in recent weeks from other companies and private equity firms that valued
