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Bill Gates is Microsoft, and Microsoft is Bill Gates. Despite being one of the most generous philanthropists, Bill Gates is still synonymous with Microsoft. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given away US$30 billion since 2000. If he would've given that amount of money equally to 30 person
Read Full StoryLast month, we told you to mark your calendar for this year as there would be abundance of movies coming to you. One of them is of course, “Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens”, from a franchise that made George Lucas a multi-billionaire. Scheduled to be released end of this year, one c
Read Full StoryYou have heard of Big Mac Index, a semi-humorous way of measuring the purchasing power parity between two currencies using McDonald's hamburger as the main product. But have you heard of Lipstick Index? It is a term coined by Leonard Lauder, chairman of the board of Estee Lauder, to describe sales
Read Full StoryChina is awash with fakery products, from iPhones, pirated DVDs, knockoff Louis Vuitton bags, baby diapers and whatnot. In 2012, a creative Chinese, Lin Chunping, took fakery to a new level. The rice trader became overnight superstar when he invented a U.S. bank and claimed he bought it, with even s
Read Full StorySay what you like about American war films or movies, but they're really good in telling stories about good guys, who happen to be Americans, killing off bad guys, who most often are non-Americans. Who can forget the 1960s television longest-running World War II drama - "Combat" - where the good guy
Read Full StoryAfter Malaysia Airlines (MAS) lost two commercial planes last year - MH370 and MH17 - it seems the company is losing its website as well. The company's IT team must be having the bluest of Monday Blues today, when its website is hacked by what appears to be hackers linked to ISIS or IS or ISIL or wh
Read Full StoryFormer U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) contractor who leaked thousands of pages of previously classified NSA intelligence documents has dropped another bombshell, sort of. It was actually his lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, who made the revelation in an interview with the Russian media agency RIA Nov
Read Full StorySaudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has died at the age of 90. The Royal Court said in a statement broadcast across the kingdom that King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud had died at exactly 1:00 a.m. Friday. King Abdullah became king of the oil-rich nation, a key U.S. ally in the Middle East, in August 2
Read Full StoryIf you've ever hidden money or a purchase from your spouse, you would be in deep trouble, during ancient civilization. But today, the sensitive issue of people hiding money from their spouses is gaining popular. So, if you've ever done so and were too afraid to tell your other half about it, now is
Read Full StoryLast year, a study done by smartphone case maker mophie in UK has revealed something amazing, although not surprising. Nearly half of Britons can only remember three telephone numbers because they are so reliant on storing information on their mobile phone. The research also showed that 92% of Briti
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