The questions and answers search engine, Ask.com, originally known as Ask Jeeves, released it's top 10 trending searches associated with news, celebrities, and politic themed search terms for the year 2014. That's because you can learn a lot about someone from their search history. "Renée Zellweger's face" and "Ebola" top...

Nobel laureate Marie Curie, Florence Nightingale, Margaret Thatcher, Emmeline Pankhurst, and Mother Teresa have been named as the top five "women who have shaped the world". Also included were Princess Diana, Queen Victoria, Anne Frank, Joan of Arc, and Queen Elizabeth I, was compiled following a poll of 2,000 British...

Dayton, Ohio was named the #1 on the list of top 10 nicest and naughtiest cities for renters in America 2014, according to a ranking by Rent.com. Did your city make the list? Two other cities in Ohio, included in this awesome top 10 Nicest Cities for Renters List: Akron...

A new research by global consultancy firm McKinsey and Company revealed that the annual cost of obesity now tops $2 trillion per year, or 2.8% of global economic output  - comparable with combined expenses of armed violence, war and terrorism and greater than both alcoholism and climate change. That compares...

Did you catch the 2014 American Music Awards (AMAs) last night? Hosted by Pitbull, big names in the music industry converged on Los Angeles for the 2014 American Music Awards. That’s right, the British boy band (One Direction) and US singer (Katy Perry) took home three awards each. One Direction,...

Interestingly enough, for the 4th consecutive time, China's massive Tianhe-2 supercomputer, aka "Milky Way-2", has retained the top spot as the world's fastest supercomputer, according to a biannual Top500 list of supercomputers. That's no surprise, Tianhe-2, developed by China's National University of Defense Technology (NUDT,) can operate at 33,86 petaflops...

Amazingly, Americans go to McDonald's, Starbucks, Subway, and Target more frequently than Post Office or a bank, according to a new ranking of the 100 most visited businesses compiled by mobile Seattle-based location analytics startup Placed. Walmart is the #1 ranked business in America for visitors and foot traffic. McDonald's...

Recently, the Financial Times released its inaugural Top 100 Women Financial Advisers in America list for 2014, developed in collaboration with Ignites Distribution Research, a sister company of the FT. To be considered for the influential FT 100 female financial advisors in the United States list, Financial Times and Ignites...

When was the last time you showed genuine appreciation for someone’s contribution at work? Not just a ‘thank you’ in passing – really showed them that you appreciated what you did and encouraged them to take it further? If it has been a while, you’re by no means alone according...