Pinterest valuation at $11B after funding: Report
Social sharing site Pinterest has raised $367 million, giving it a valuation of about $11 billion, according to a new report.
Social sharing site Pinterest has raised $367 million, giving it a valuation of about $11 billion, according to a new report.
Suits involving start-ups Uber and Lyft are headed for trial, and may have wide implications for the freelance economy.
Meghan Trainor happily flashes a smile as she makes her way out of NBC Studios after making an appearance on The Today Show on Monday (March 16) in New York City. The 21-year-old singer stopped by to reveal that she’s hitting the road again on her brand new tour The MTrain Tour, starting July 3 [...]
The number of travelers flying on U.S. airlines is expected to grow by about 50 percent in the next two decades.
Logan Green, Lyft CEO, discusses the role Lyft has in the sharing economy and how it's changing the nature of work, with CNBC's Julia Boorstin.
Irish bars in Seattle range from the divey to the refined and most have special events in store for St. Patrick's Day.
The awards season is over, and with critical acclaim, a healthy box office haul of over $205 million worldwide, and an Oscar win for screenwriter Graham Moore, "The Imitation Game" is a big success. Whether you missed it the first time around or are eager to see the movie again, the film and special features will be available for digital download on March 20th, and the Blu-ray/DVD will be on shelves March 31st. And today we've got an exclusive peek at a couple of the featurettes. Moore and author Walter Isaacson ("The Innovators... Читать дальше...
Optimus Prime lives, thanks to these guys.
He downed 25 shots of vodka in less than 60 seconds.
The new marijuana documentary, “Rolling Papers,” tells the story of Denver Post’s Ricardo Baca, a journalist who landed the first ever job as marijuana editor, and started “The Cannabist” column. When the first legal marijuana stores opened in January 2014, Colorado got global media attention as not only the first place in America, but the first place in the world, to constitutionalize the recreational use of the drug for adults 21 years of age. Smoking weed was finally as legit as drinking alcohol... Читать дальше...
Two people that have, however, are Jon and Jennifer Riehl, a couple with an appetite for road trips and a love for their forest green 1999 Dodge Intrepid — the car that they drove through their final unvisited county in the continental United States last week, with 540,000 miles on the clock. Jon, 31, an engineering instructor at Michigan Tech University, bought the car in 2002 for $9,000 when he was a senior in high school. Finishing off Alaska and making the trip to Hawaii is sure to be a logistical nightmare... Читать дальше...
Data from Sikka Software show that emergency visits to the dentist go up 64 percent on March 18.
CNBC's Bertha Coombs discusses the day's activity in the commodities markets. Oil keeps trying to find a bottom, but the supply glut has oil at 6-year lows.
In a series of tweets, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk said that sharing company news on Twitter isn't meant to inflate the stock price.
Jacqueline Balaam has now been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison.
Strong fundamentals support economy but there are reasons to be cautious
The FCC needs to take action to keep the big guys from taking advantage of auction policies to protect the little guys, says David Williams.
Patterns and colors and jewels, oh my! If you've been coveting Mindy Lahiri's always eye-popping st[...]
Ballet San Jose has raised $640,000 in a 10-day desperation drive in order to stave off mid-season collapse. The fundraiser, announced with a dire warning on March 4, set a minimum of $550,000 to maintain its annual operating budget of $5.5 million and keep the company from going dark even as a premiere was being rehearsed. The turnaround project began in 2013 when the ballet’s board of trustees raised $2.7 million and hired new management.
Liao Yongyuan the latest of the company’s executives to be named in President Xi Jinping’s campaign