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Sweeping Or Skydiving? When Counting Calories It’s All The Same
By Alyson Hurt Sports can burn a lot of energy. But vacuuming the carpet burns calories, too. The question is, how much? We checked out the numbers and found surprises.
BP Agrees To Fork Over Nearly $19B For Role In Gulf Oil Spill
By Debbie Elliott The oil giant BP has reached an $18.7 billion settlement with Gulf states and the federal government over the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
Twitter Pushes Ads With A New Button Atop Mobile Users’ Profiles
By Sarah Perez Twitter’s latest push to monetize its service has led to the rollout of a new “Twitter Ads” button, which is now prominently appearing on user profile pages
U.S. Seeks Extradition Of 7 FIFA Officials From Switzerland
By Krishnadev Calamur Swiss prosecutors said the requests were delivered Wednesday evening. The FIFA officials were arrested in May in Zurich in a corruption investigation of soccer’s governing body. »
Prince Won’t Stream 4 U (Unless You’re On Tidal, Or Maybe Google Music)
By Ingrid Lunden Call it the Taylor effect: it looks like another high-profile musician is sharpening his arrows to take aim at how streaming music services pay artists. Music from
BP To Pay $18.7 Billion To Settle Gulf Coast Oil Spill Claims
By Brian Naylor The agreement with the U.S. government, five Gulf Coast states and more than 400 local governments comes five years after the Deepwater Horizon spill. » E-Mail This
A Third Classification of Worker? Don’t Count On It
By Connie Loizos Of late, there’s been a steady drumbeat of accusations that on-demand startups are unfairly wringing profits out of independent contractors. The concern: No one is withholding their
Here’s How Microsoft Will Release Windows 10
By Alex Wilhelm After some general market confusion and bad headline writing, Microsoft this morning detailed how it will roll out Windows 10 to testers, consumers, and large-scale customers. First,
Unemployment Rate Falls To 5.3 Percent, But For The Wrong Reason
By Avie Schneider The economy keeps adding jobs at a steady pace, including 223,000 in June, but the Labor Department report for last month shows more people are also leaving
When The Disrupted Push Back
By Ron Miller We tend to think of disruption as kind of a passive activity. The determined upstart enters the market and the established business doesn’t give it a second
