The men who fooled the Internet with their hoax about a woman who quit her job via a dry erase board say it made some money for their site, TheChive.com — but that attention-grabbing stunts don’t make for a reliable business model for their company, Rober Media.
“TheChive is already an established and profitable brand with multiple advertising...
It's a popular dieting secret: Drink more water, and you'll shed more pounds. Finally, science is adding weight to the practice.
After about three months, a new study found, obese dieters who drank two cups of water before each meal lost 5 pounds more than a group of dieters who didn't increase their water intake. A year later, the...
I think most of us will agree that Hollywood, as an industry, doesn’t take nearly enough risks. Studios are perfectly content with following a pattern, playing in their own familiar sandbox with their same old toys until someone else in school discovers what the new, cool trends are going to be. If someone else can make a buck off of a fresh idea,...
Fewer beans means higher prices. Here, a farmer collects coffee at a plantation in Colombia.
The price of coffee beans hit a 12-year high today. I thought there might be some kind of reclusive-hedge-fund-guy-corners-coffee-market story, like we saw with cocoa earlier this summer.
But the main driver of coffee prices right now is more prosaic:...
