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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 persons, that’s 30 new billionaires in this […]
... written on Jan 30 2015Last 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 can […]
... written on Jan 29 2015You 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 of cosmetics during the early 2000s recession. […]
... written on Jan 28 2015China 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 state media reported about his […]
... written on Jan 28 2015Say 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 guys U.S. platoon fighting […]
... written on Jan 27 2015After 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 […]
... written on Jan 26 2015Former 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 Novosti. Nevertheless, Anatoly has just exposed why Snowden never use Apple […]
... written on Jan 26 2015Saudi 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 2005. But […]
... written on Jan 23 2015If 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 the […]
... written on Jan 22 2015Last 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 British people would feel stressed if their […]
... written on Jan 21 2015
