You Can Now Travel With Sir Richard Branson’s Mini-Me

You Can Now Travel With Sir Richard Branson’s Mini-Me

Do you want to travel with Richard Branson, founder and chairman of Virgin Group? You now can if you decide to travel first class with Virgin Atlantic. How? Branson decided to mold his face and design an ice cube with his facial characteristics and looks. So yes; now you are going to be able to see a couple of ‘Little Richards’ in your bar drink going forward. The cubes were designed so the Virgin… Read More →

50% Of Domino’s Pizza Was Once Traded For An Used Volkswagen Beetle

50% Of Domino’s Pizza Was Once Traded For An Used Volkswagen Beetle

Everyday we learn something new about the businesses that run the world’s engine. From companies associated with the Nazis to companies that sold sea-shells and later became one of the world’s largest oil companies. Today lets talk about the beginnings of Domino’s Pizza, the second largest pizza chain in the United States. In 1960, brothers Tom and James Monaghan bought DomiNick’s, a small pizza place in Ypsilanti, Michigan. They gave a… Read More →

Steve Jobs As Ghostbusters [video]

Steve Jobs As Ghostbusters [video]

Steve Jobs has a huge imagination, so big that he actually dressed as a character from the movie Ghostbusters in 1995 doing some sort of spoof against “Big Blue” IBM. Seems like he really hated IBM, enjoy:  

Mark Zuckerberg And The NASDAQ Bell [Video]

Mark Zuckerberg And The NASDAQ Bell [Video]

Finally the moment has come. The moment many investors, aficionados, and the Facebook team were waiting for: Facebook going public. This Friday (5/18/2012) Facebook became officially a public company among Apple, Amazon, and Google and Mark became $19.1 billion richer. Since most of us missed the event, here is a video by Bloomberg showing the exact moment of Mark ringing the opening bell from the Facebook HQ:  

Bill Gates Deposition Videos Of 1998

Bill Gates Deposition Videos Of 1998

In a rambling 50 minute segment pulled from Gates 3 day deposition, Gates engaged in a verbal duel with U.S. Justice Department attorney David Boies, splitting hairs over literal interpretations of emails, browsers, and memos and refusing to concede that Microsoft focused their efforts primarily on eliminating Netscape. In 1998, the United States Department of Justice and 20 states filed a consolidated set of civil actions against Microsoft. A case… Read More →

Thomas Edison’s To-Do List

Thomas Edison’s To-Do List

Many people argue whether a To-Do list is effective or not. I haven’t done any scientific experiments to come up with a conclusion but I have an example to prove it is effective. Thomas Edison, the fourth most prolific inventor in history thus a ridiculously busy man, created a 5 page To-Do list handwritten in January of 1,888 when Edison was 40 years old. The list include many devices that greatly influenced life… Read More →

Gmail Man: Microsoft Makes Fun Of Google

Gmail Man: Microsoft Makes Fun Of Google

With the recent changes in privacy policies that Google has made across its line of products and not offering any opt-out options, users have raised concern over the lack of privacy and choices. For these users, Microsoft has been advertising better alternatives to Google products. “Better alternatives” being a subjective matter. On 02/02/2012, Microsoft uploaded a video to its Youtube account, a Google-owned property by the way. The video is called… Read More →

M&M’s Origin: Spanish Civil War & World War II

M&M’s Origin: Spanish Civil War & World War II

What is the answer to the old song: War, what is it good for? The answer: Good for tasty M&M’s. Forrest Mars, Sr., the founder of the Mars Company, got the idea for the M&M’s chocolate in the 1930s during the Spanish Civil War when he saw soldiers eating chocolate pellets with a hard shell of tempered chocolate surrounding the inside, preventing the candies from melting. Forrest Mars received a patent for his… Read More →

Bill Gates Has Given Away $28 Billion Since 2007. Saving 6+ Million Lives [Infographic]

Bill Gates Has Given Away $28 Billion Since 2007. Saving 6+ Million Lives [Infographic]

I would like to take this moment to congratulate Bill Gates. He is one of the richest man alive, changed the world, and is the biggest contributor to charities on this planet. Since 2007, Gates has given away 48% of his net worth ($28 billion) which has helped save more than 6 million lives. I have a lot of respect for Bill Gates. Not just because he is been wildly successful, but because… Read More →

Top 10 Sites That Blacked Out To Stop SOPA & PIPA [Images]

Top 10 Sites That Blacked Out To Stop SOPA & PIPA  [Images]

A list of the Top 10 highest-trafficked and influential websites that participated in the Stop SOPA/PIPA movement on January 18, 2012 along their screenshots of the blacked out pages, enjoy: Google - http://www.google.com/   Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page   Craigslist – http://www.craigslist.org   Wired – http://www.wired.com/   Reddit – http://www.reddit.com   Mozilla – http://www.mozilla.org/   Hacker News – http://news.ycombinator.com/   Twitpic – http://twitpic.com/   WordPress - http://wordpress.com/   Cheezburger Network - http://cheezburger.com/   Source (The Freedom of the Internet)