There’s no doubt about the Super Bowl’s importance in sports, but will it really be a touchdown for Dallas’s economy? While one study pegs the economic impact at $611 million, the number seems dubious — especially considering …
The gap between America’s super-wealthy and the rest of us has grown so vast it’s hard to even comprehend the sums they spend on their luxuries. But if you measure, say, a $200 million luxury yacht in terms of the average U.S. …
Magazine executive John T. Elduff recently paid $2,000 for the trademark rights of the once-renowned weekly Collier’s, which went bankrupt in the 1950s. His plans to bring it back to life as a print publication aim at folks who…
Meet Watson, aspiring Jeopardy champ. He’s a black rectangle with a globe avatar, and he absorbed 200 million pages of text to prepare for the game show.
Watson is the IBM (IBM) supercomputer sent to do battle with human contestants on Jeopardy. He a…
Amid all the hype around the Verizon iPhone, you may have missed one important change: Verizon (VZ) is ending its popular “New Every Two” upgrade program.
The program offers Verizon subscribers a credit of as much as $100 toward a new phone every two…