Leonid Bershidsky: UK Government Unfair in Picking on Mikhail Fridman
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron threatened to force Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman to sell his North Sea Energy assets unless Fridman gives him assurances. According to Reuters, a spokesman for Cameron said, “If assurances are not supplied, we’ve set out our position and intention to act.” Fridman’s investment vehicle More...
Arrowsmith’s Steve Tyler to Serenade Ryan Kavanaugh at Upcoming Nuptials
Arrowsmith lead singer Steve Tyler will serenade movie producer Ryan Kavanaugh and his bride, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model Jessica More...
The Russian Tycoons Are Coming, the Russian Tycoons Are Coming – To Manhattan
The former Russian secretary of state under Presidnet Boris Yeltzin, Andrey Vavilov, is buying a penthouse at the Time Warner Center More...
iAngels Cobbles Small Investments Into Successful Ventures in Israel’s Startup World
Mor Assia (33) and Shelly Hod Moyal (31) own iAngels, a successful start-up company which, in its first year, has enlisted 400 investment More...
David Geffen Donates $100 Million to Avery Fisher Hall, Says It Should Bear His Name Forever
David Geffen is going to help Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher hall get a makeover and a new name. The entertainment mogul is donating More...
See Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden
First day of shooting on Oliver Stone's "SNOWDEN." PHOTO: http://t.co/T59wO5XJOb pic.twitter.com/Ubyp5a7cWj — More...
Amy Pascal Says Seth Rogen Stank Up Her New Office With Pot
Seth Rogen is fighting back after Amy Pascal accused him of stinking of pot. The former head of Sony Pictures said that she is delaying More...
Low Oil Prices Mean New Projects for Blackstone
Falling oil prices are keeping Blackstone busy with new opportunities. Tim Coleman of Blackstone told Bloomberg, “You can’t have your price (oil prices) drop 50% and More...
Brett Icahn a Chip Off Father’s Wall Street Block
Brett Icahn, son of legendary investor Carl Icahn, seems to have inherited his father’s investment savvy. Brett Icahn, along with partner David Schechter, More...
Israeli Cannabis R&D Co to Present at Prague Medical Cannabis Conference
OWC Pharmaceutical Research Corp’s (OTCQB: OWCP) wholly owned subsidiary of One World Cannabis Ltd., an Israeli research and development company focused on cannabis-based More...
Israeli Attunity Acquires US Provider of Large Scale Data Usage Analytics
Israel’s Attunity, a provider of information availability software solutions, (NASDAQ CM: ATTU), announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Appfluent Technology, More...
PLO Stops Security Coordination With Israel, IDF Says It’s Still On
The PLO Central Council has adopted a resolution to suspend security coordination with Israel, Ma’an reported. The PLO has adopted several resolutions during 27 meetings More...
Still Accosted by Politicians, Sydney Leathers Snags Another Weiner
The porn star from Indiana who put a sexting nail in the coffin of Anthony Weiner’s political career, which was moribund after a previous illicit sex text scandal, has snagged More...
Former Senator Condemns Antisemitic Whisper Campaign Behind Tom Schweich’s Suicide
Former U.S. Senator John Danforth decried the political bullying and the anti-semitic whisper campaign that might have contributed to the suicide of Missouri Republican gubernatorial More...
PayPal Buys Israeli ‘Predictive’ Cyber Security Company That Could Have Prevented the Sony Attack
PayPal has bought Beer Sheva-based cyber security start-up CyActive for between $60 and $80, the website Calcalist reported. CyActive, More...
Mark Zuckerberg Talks Virtual Reality and the Future of Content
At a conference in Barcelona, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg says he remains focused on spreading internet connectivity More...
Uri Avnery: The Speech
SUDDENLY IT reminded me of something. I was watching The Speech by Binyamin Netanyahu before the...
Nobel Laureate in Economics, Joseph Stiglitz: A Fair Hearing for Sovereign Debt
/ By Joseph E. Stiglitz and Martin Guzman/ Last July, when United States federal judge Thomas...
Jamie Metzl: Japan’s Sensitive Military Normalization
Soon after the Islamic State’s brutal murder in January of the Japanese hostages Haruna Yukawa and...
Lennar CEO Stuart Miller Predicts Robust Housing Market
Lennar CEO Stuart Miller told CNBC that housing is looking up More...
Israeli BioLineRx Announces Underwritten Public Offering of American Depositary Shares
Israeli Drug development company BiolineRX Ltd. (Nasdaq: BLRX); TASE:BLRX) has commenced an underwritten public More...
Yuri Milner’s $1 Billion Farfetch Fashion Retailer Raises $86 Million
Yuri Milner’s Farfetch, an online fashion retailer, announced an $86 million Series E round of investment More...
Carlyle’s David Rubenstein Says Now Is the Time to Buy Oil
David Rubenstein of the Carlyle Group says he would not wait for oil to bottom, but would buy it now More...
Prosecutor Nisman’s Ex-Wife Has No Doubt It Was ‘Homicide’
The ex-wife of dead prosecutor Alberto Nisman told a press conference on Thursday that a team of experts says More...
Ira Rennert Could Owe Shareholders $700 Million, Judge Throws Out Mistrial Request
Not only did U.S. District judge Alison Nathan deny Ira Rennert, charged of looting his company to fund his More...
Trial Begins for White Supremacist Who Killed 3 at Kansas City Jewish Center
In a preliminary hearing on the shootings at a Jewish Center and a Jewish retirement home in Kansas City, Missouri, More...
Rona Fairhead Advocates Pay Limits for BBC Actors While Making a Bundle Moonlighting
While she receives a meager 110,000 pounds yearly ($169,000) in her role as BBC Trust head, she has made a fat...
Price Philanthropies Brings Marine Science to Low Income Kids With $6 Million Donation
"We believe students can benefit from hands-on learning. And from children from inner cities whose families are poor, this gives them...
Study: Oxytocin Nasal Spray Causes Men to Eat Fewer Calories
On average, the men ate 122 fewer calories and 9 grams less fat at the meal after they received oxytocin nasal...Study: Men Tend to Be More Narcissistic Than Women
Online Shoppers Rarely Close the Deal on Their Smartphones
Peter Sutherland: The Migration Opportunity
In the last year, more than 4,000 men, women, and children have lost their lives attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea...Bacteria Fighting Virus, Taxibots and IronSource: It’s Good News From Israel
More and More Startups Reach the Billion-Dollar Milestone
