Obama cracking down on tax cheats
By Jonah Bennett From Daily Caller Arriving 18 months late on the scene, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) came into effect this week in an effort to crack down on tax dodgers funneling money outside the country, the…
The 12 most over-the-top weddings in tech
By Madeline Stone From Business Insider Wedding season is upon us, and with it come tales of extravagant, multimillion-dollar celebrity marriages. Wealthy tech executives are no exception to the rule. From top-secret ceremonies on private islands to wild entrances by…
Abandoned Domino Sugar Factory
Eerie Photos Of Brooklyn’s Gigantic, Abandoned Domino Sugar Factory By Harrison Jacobs From Business Insider As a lifelong resident of Manhattan, photographer and former urban planner David Allee has often spied the hulking outline of the iconic Domino Sugar Factory…
Cold, dead star crystallized into Earth-sized diamond
By Megan Gannon, News Editor for Space.com Astronomers aren’t being poetic when they say this star is a diamond. Scientists have identified what is possibly the coldest white dwarf ever detected. In fact, this dim stellar corpse is so cold…
World Bank Group backs Latin America and the Caribbean’s efforts to boost growth and preserve social gains
Infrastructure, transportation, education and fiscal management were among top priorities supported by more than $10 billion last fiscal year WASHINGTON, July 2, 2014 – The World Bank Group (WBG) committed $10.2 billion in fiscal year 2014 (July 2013 to June…
World Cup sets US live streaming record
By Shannon Bond in New York From Financial Times Frustrated fans in Texas watch the US miss an opportunity against Belgium during extra time. Football’s appeal has grown in the US, particularly among younger, more digital fans The World Cup…
Memorial for a murdered World Cup star, 20 years later
By Alex Magdaleno From Mashable The Colombian defender Andres Escobar was killed outside a nightclub in Medellin, Colombia, on July 2, 1994, days after he scored an own goal in the 1994 World Cup against the USA, the host country…
RBL Capital provides $10MM credit facility to Net Element [financing by Cayman Invest]
From ABL Advisor Net Element, Inc., a technology-driven group specializing in mobile payments and value-added transactional services in emerging countries and in the United States, completed the closing of a $10 million credit facility from the payments industry-leading lender, RBL…
Cartoon of the Day
By Tony Zuvela, Cartoonist “It’s my own little World which I can escape to everyday and create a fun, weird, berserk Cartoon to whatever subject I like. I enjoy doing all the work myself, and all the aspects of Cartooning,…
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CARICOM: Arrest “bun-wuk” before it spreads
By Sir Ronald Sanders “BUN-WUK” TRANSLATES INTO “BURN WORK” AND IT IS AN EVENT, CREATED BY YOUNG PEOPLE, TO STOP WORK AT 1 PM ON FRIDAYS AND TO REVEL THEREAFTER THROUGHOUT THE WEEK-END. BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Thursday July 3, 2014 –…
