Insurers, business groups and legislators debate whether killing $60 million tax credit would hike taxes or save money
Read More Panama data leak prompts probe of shell companies
The offshore financial dealings of wealthy, famous and powerful people around the world are raising questions
Read More Wall Street Considers Blockchain For Tracking Trades On $2 Trillion “Repo” Market
The short-term lending market could be the first major market to see transactions recorded by the ledger made famous by bitcoin.
In the latest sign that the financial industry is getting serious about the blockchain, an industry group that tracks securities ownership says it’s working on tools to shift some records for one $2 trillion market to the shared-ledger technology.
How A Practical Joke By CBInsights Skewering VC Culture Fooled Silicon Valley
Read past the headline, people.
Anand Sanwal, the CEO of CBInsights—a research firm that tracks investment in startups—had an idea for an April Fools’ Day joke that made fun of Silicon Valley’s unicorns and the venture capitalists who fund them.
Alaska Air buying Virgin America
Alaska Air Group Inc. is buying Virgin America in a deal worth more than $2 billion
Read More Why Tribeca Film Institute Is Doing Screenings In Prison
The Community Screening Series helps prisoners connect to each other, the world outside, and new educational opportunities.
The poster on the wall was a kind of marquee. “TRIBECA FILM INSTITUTE COMMUNITY SCREENING SERIES — ‘3 ½ MINUTES, 10 BULLETS’ — FEBRUARY 17TH, 2016.” But the venue was very different from the usual fare of Tribeca, best known for its glamorous annual film festival in New York, founded by Robert De Niro. Tonight’s screening was in Otisville Correctional Facility, a medium-security state prison about 60 miles northwest of Manhattan. The audience was a roomful of prisoners in muted green and maroon clothing, several of whom were serving out life sentences.
100 Portraits That Tell The Stories Of People Underrepresented In Tech
Photographer Helena Price’s touching project features designers, engineers, and product managers who break white-bro stereotypes.
“I was born in Thailand in 1980 in a refugee camp near the border of Thailand and Cambodia.”
Trove of data on offshore accounts prompts probe
The offshore financial dealings of wealthy, famous and powerful people around the world are raising questions
Read More Move to OK commercial drone flights over people
A committee is recommending standards that could clear the way for commercial drone flights over populated areas
Read More AAA: Michigan average gas prices rise 11 cents
The auto club says early Monday the average price for self-serve regular unleaded gasoline was about $2.07 per gallon
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