Mark Zuckerberg Facing Tough Free Speech Questions, Recalls Pakistani Death Threats
In response to the terror attack at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said he has also been threatened by extremists, as reported by the American Herald. A few More...
ScotiaBank to buy Discount Bank Latin America
– ScotiaBank has signed an agreement to buy Israel Discount Bank’s Uruguay unit for $65 million. – Israel Discount Bank (TASE: DSCT) has announced that it has signed an agreement to sell its More...
Erdogan: Muslims Discovered Americas, Columbus Saw their Mosque
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a man of sanity, integrity, and shoe boxes stuffed with cash, has told a conference of Latin American Muslim leaders gathered in Istanbul that Muslims discovered More...
Harvard Professor Ricardo Hausmann: The Procurement Goldmine
– Gold is rare. More than 99.9% of the Earth’s crust is composed of oxides of silicon, aluminum, calcium, magnesium, sodium, iron, potassium, titanium, and phosphorus. So, for most More...
Analyst Herb Greenberg Says Restaurant IPOs Give Investors Indigestion
TheStreet.com analyst Herb Geenberg said that the plethora of restaurant IPOs are giving investors indigestion. What is to blame are hyped-up themes that might generate sales in the short-term, but More...
Elbit Systems wins $100 million Latin American deal
– Elbit Systems Awarded a $100 million Contract to Supply Integrated Systems for Homeland Security Applications. – – Elbit Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ and TASE: ESLT) announced today that it was More...
Carlos Slim in Talks to Invest in Israeli Big Data Analytics Company GSTAT
– Big data analytics company GSTAT confirms that Carlos Slim is considering investing tens of millions of shekels in it. – Carlos Slim / Getty – Carlos Slim is in talks to invest in big data More...