How did fireworks become America’s Fourth of July pastime? By Forrest Wickman For as long as Americans can remember, the nation has celebrated the Fourth of July by staging grand fireworks shows in public squares and lighting smaller displays at home. Why do we commemorate Independence Day by setting off thousands of small explosions? Because […]

By Jennifer Booton Facebook Inc. closed at a record high on Wednesday, but the stock is still one of the most under-owned of the large-cap Internet companies, according to an analysis published Wednesday by Citigroup. In fact, the social network FB, -0.55% is the second-least-held stock, ahead of just Google Inc. GOOGL, -0.12% among a […]

It’s summertime!  For millions that means beach time.  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has produced a list of seven dangers at the shores. Although both Sharks and Jelly Fish are on the list, Jelly Fish account for almost thirty times more fatalities than the more sinister looking creatures.   The vast majority of Jelly […]

Harry Macklowe is seeking some of the highest asking office rents in the city at the commercial portion of his 432 Park Avenue development in Midtown. Asking rents at the 71,000-square-foot, cube-like office building – which is attached to 432 Park Avenue’s 1,400-foot-tall residential tower and shares the same address – start at $150 per […]

Why do we have peak experiences when we see people being kind to each other? By  Steve Taylor Ph.D I have a friend who used to live in Pakistan, where he was an animal rights activist. One day, he was walking through his home city when he saw a crowd gathered around the stall of […]

This interview with Jim Dolce, chief executive of the mobile security firm Lookout, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. Were you in leadership roles when you were younger? A. I wasn’t in a leadership role until well after college. I went to school to become an engineer, and this was around 1984, so […]

Most text taken from a post by Margaret Rouse Phishing is an e-mail fraud method in which the perpetrator sends out legitimate-looking email in an attempt to gather personal and financial information from recipients. Typically, the messages appear to come from well known and trustworthy Web sites. Web sites that are frequently spoofed by phishers include […]

By Tom Borg Research I read more a decade ago about Delta Airlines showed that among the many things that people want to know about the individuals in business who serve them, four items consistently remain at the top of the list. Customers want to know the answers to the following four questions: Related: 7 Ways to […]

BY: JOANNA ROBINSON With all the character changes, non-book deaths, and plot alterations in the upcoming season of HBO’s Game of Thrones, you’d be forgiven if you thought the TV show would eventually have nothing whatsoever to do with George R.R. Martin’s books. But you’d be wrong. Show runners Dan Weiss and David Benioffconfirmed over the […]

By Lori Deschene “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” ~Mahatma Gandhi Up until my early twenties, I carried around a lot of anger toward someone in my life. I’d been hurt by a person I trusted, and for a long time in my adolescence I wanted to hurt them […]