Kickstarter has commissioned tech journalist Mark Harris to investigate and report on one of the company's most high-profile failed campaigns to date: the Zano mini-drone, which raised over $3.5 million and was Europe's most funded project ever.
"In an interview with Truth In Media's Joshua Cook, Mint Press News editor Mnar Muhawesh discusses an important issue regarding foreign policy that the main stream media won't cover: who is profiting from the war in Syria?"
A young girl in a purple dress and hat, both seemingly cribbed from the set of a budget Alice in Wonderland production, stumbles past a Beijing meeting room in skyscraper heels.
In one of our recent updates on the weakness in the manufacturing sector we have mentioned the surge in the sum of charge-offs and delinquencies of commercial and industrial loans at US banks (hat tip to our friend BC, who inspired the chart below).
As we approach the end of 2015, researchers at both JP Morgan and Citigroup agree that the probability that the U.S. economy will soon plunge into recession is rising.
Global oil prices could fall as low as $20 per barrel next year, as Opec's decision to abandon a formal production quota exacerbates a bulging supply glut.
Just as we warned, based on credit card data, this holiday spending period is a disaster. Following disappointing sales over the Black Friday to Cyber Monday weekend, there has been absolutely no follow-through momentum as is usually seen.
Shaun Bridges, a former Secret Service agent who stole more than $800,000 worth of bitcoins during the investigation into darknet marketplace Silk Road, has been sentenced to 71 months in prison. In June, Bridges pleaded guilty to siphoning off the b
Flashing some interplanetary gold bling and sipping "space water" might sound far-fetched, but both could soon be reality, thanks to a new US law that legalizes cosmic mining.
If you're a miner, this is "not the time for courage" (to borrow a classic Gartman-ism).
The global slump in commodities shows no sign of abating and a stubborn OPEC isn't doing anything to help matters.
Two things happened after the most recent widely publicized US mass shootings/domestic terrorism acts: i) Obama once again made a concerted effort to push for gun-control, and ii) gun sales soared to record highs for November most likely in response
If you've been waiting to finally see Monsanto - one of the most hated companies in the world - to pay for its ecocide, knowing harm of human life, and devastation of our pollinators, then you won't have to wait much longer.
Earlier this week, pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts partnered with a company that makes a $1-per-pill version of Turing Pharmaceuticals' $750 per-pill drug Daraprim.
The US ratings agency Standard and Poor's cut its ratings for eight major American banks on Thursday, saying they cannot count on government help again in case of trouble.