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ASEAN Companies Flock to Hong Kong as Investhk Reports 30% Growth

Quick Summary: ASEAN Companies Flock to Hong Kong as Investhk Reports 30% Growth Hong Kong's Northern Metropolis project aims to become a hub for Filipino companies seeking capital and R&D...

Nigerian Equities Plunge 1.35% as Naira Gains and Bond Demand Surges

Quick Summary: Nigerian Equities Plunge 1.35% as Naira Gains and Bond Demand Surges Nigeria's financial...

South Africa’s Informal Economy Shields 8.5 Million Amid Job Crisis

Quick Summary: South Africa's Informal Economy Shields 8.5 Million Amid Job Crisis South Africa's...

Emperador’s FTSE Reentry Sparks Investor Interest Amid Profit Rise

Quick Summary: Emperador's FTSE Reentry Sparks Investor Interest Amid Profit Rise FTSE Russell's decision...

Genuit Group Maintains Dividend Amid Construction Market Challenges

Quick Summary: Genuit Group Maintains Dividend Amid Construction Market Challenges Genuit maintained its interim dividend...

Facebook Quietly Deletes Mark Zuckerberg’s Private Messages

Facebook secretly deleted Mark Zuckerberg's private messages from the social networking platform. According to TechCrunch, multiple sources who had previously received private messages from CEO Mark Zuckerberg through the Facebook Messenger application can no longer find those messages. That said, it begs the question if the company is secretly deleting...

Facebook Reveals 87 Million Users’ Accounts Were Exposed to Cambridge Analytica

Facebook revealed 87 million users’ data to Cambridge Analytica, which is 37 million than previously announced. The Cambridge Analytica scandal continues to unfold for the social media giant, with Facebook now revealing that 87 million users were exposed to the company. The number, which was revealed by Facebook’s chief technology...

Apple Is Reportedly Working on Touchless and Curved iPhone Screens

Apple is reportedly working on touches gesture screens that curve, which will be different than all other smartphones in the mobile phone market. According to various sources, the gestures feature for the iPhone is described as a hover-like gesture system “by moving their finger close to the screen without...

Facebook Reveals Their First Major Change to their Terms of Service

On Wednesday, Facebook announced they will be updating their terms of service to clarify what it does with user’s social media information. The changes to the TOS are in response to major business shakeups to Facebook’s business since the last time the company implemented major changes in 2015. What does...

Cancer Drug, Lomustine, Price Rises By 1400%

Lomustine is a cancer drug that treats brain tumors, lung cancer, and Hodgkin’s lymphoma. It has been around for nearly 40 years, but it is becoming more expensive after the drug has gone up in price by 1400%. The drug was previously called CeeNU and was sold from Bristol-Myers Squibb...

Judge Dismisses Gender Pay Discrimination Lawsuit Against Google

Accusations that Google paid their female employees less than men and given them fewer promotions have been dismissed by a California state judge on Wednesday, according to Reuters. Superior Court judge Mary Miss said that the lawsuit, which represented all female Google employees in California, was far too vague,...

Nearly 20% of NBA Players Have Heart Issues, Study Finds

Nearly, 1 in 5 NBA players has heart scans that appear abnormal, according to a new study. Approximately 20% of today’s basketball stars have abnormal heart scans, according to a new detailed assessment of the NBA’s heart health. Basketball players are 30 times more likely than any other to suffer...

Cinemark Launches A New Kind of Loyalty Program

MoviePass has been lowering their prices to build up their business, and now theater chain Cinemark is firing back with their subscription service called Cinemark Movie Club. The company will use a different business model than an all-you-can-watch style. It is more of a rewards program that comes with...

YouTube is Now Testing a Stories Feature

YouTube is reportedly testing a new feature called “Reels”, which will be similar to the Stories feature you currently see on Snapchat and Instagram. TechCrunch reports Reels will be given their own tab, which will be separate from the creator’s main list of video’s. YouTube’s reasoning behind this new feature...

The Man Behind Trump’s Twitter Deactivation is Revealed (VIDEO)

Earlier this month, a Twitter employee temporarily deactivated the Twitter account belonging to President Donald Trump. After initial reports stating that it was an error, Twitter said a contractor had taken action on his last day. Now, after a massive search by journalists, the former employee revealed himself to...

America is Facing a Christmas Tree Shortage

The United States is currently facing  Christmas Tree shortage. According to the National Christmas Tree Association, NCTA, America is facing a tree shortage, which may cause the price for a Christmas tree to rise for consumers. The cause of the shortage could be traced back to the Great Recession that...

Here Are the Several New Features Instagram is Reportedly Working On

The Next Web reports Instagram is testing new features including the ability to search for GIFs to add to your Instagram stories. The Next Web reveals that there are a number of new features Instagram appears to be testing including a close friends list to share with only a...

Prehistoric Women Arms Were Stronger Than Modern Day Female Atheletes

Scientists studied the bones of nearly 100 women who lived in farming communities in Central Europe from 5300 BCE to around 850 AD and found that prehistoric women had stronger arms than modern day women. That is likely because farming women from the past had to work hard and...

Amazon Announces AWS DeepLens – An AI-Powered Camera

Amazon reveals new tools for companies to invest in artificial intelligence. Today, Amazon’s business subsidiary, Amazon Web Services (AWS), announced a new line of products with the mission to sell artificial intelligence products. Among them is a $250 AI-powered camera called DeepLens, a new platform for developing and revealing...

NASDAQ Plans to Allow Investors to Invest in Bitcoin Futures

Yesterday, the cost of a single Bitcoin reached $10,000. Today, it was reported NASDAQ, the second largest stock exchange on planet Earth, plans to launch futures contracts for Bitcoin starting 2018. This will allow investors to invest and essentially bet on the rise and fall of the cryptocurrency and...

Bitcoin is Now Worth Over $10,000

Bitcoin is worth over $10,000. The cryptocurrency surged past $10,000 on Tuesday evening as it climbs closer to $11,000, according to CoinDesk. Bitcoin had spiked 933 percent since the start of 2017, when it traded at $968.23, according to the Wall Street Journal. Despite concerns with Bitcoin’s association with criminal...

Snap CEO Calls Out Social Media’s Fake News Problem and Why Snapchat is Different

Facebook has been increasingly copying Snapchat’s features and profiting off the company in the process. Whether it’s stories or the recently announced messaging streaks, Facebook has taken features from Snapchat and repurposed them time and time again. But, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel is not taking this sitting down. In an...

Snapchat Releases a Redesigned App

Snapchat introduced a new redesign of their app intended to promote more sharing among friends while pushing professionally produced content into a separate news feed. The redesigned app also includes a new dynamic friends page that consists of both chat messages and Snapchat stories and pushes items from your...

‘Death by Pokémon GO’: Researchers Discover Pokémon Go Caused Millions in Damages

For a brief point in time, Pokémon Go was one of the most popular apps in the country. Despite bringing millions in revenue for the Niantic company, it also brought injuries and death, well at least according to a new paper. This report titled Death By Pokemon Go, shows the...

Study: Laptops Are Not Great for Taking Lecture Notes

There is increasing evidence suggesting that using laptops during lectures actually decreases learning, which can result in lower grades. According to The New York Times, researchers at Princeton University and the University of California asked a group of students to take notes at a lecture using pen and paper while...

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