I became instantly attracted to the idea of investing in a fraction of Real Estate and earning the proportional income from its rentals or value appreciation, so I invested some of my money into three properties. I am now receiving some money every month from the rental income, and when the properties sell in a year or two, I will also earn the profits from the value appreciation.

Spotify is deleting music from white supremacist artists after a website listed a number hate music bands available on the platform. “We are glad to have been alerted to this content — and have already removed many of the bands identified today, whilst urgently reviewing the remainder," a Spotify spokesperson said in a statement Thursday. On Monday, Digital Music News published a blog post listing what it identified as 37 white supremacist bands on the music-streaming platfomr.

Hyundai Motor Co said on Thursday it was placing electric vehicles at the center of its product strategy - one that includes plans for a premium long-distance electric car as it seeks to catch up to Tesla and other rivals.

A folding stool-sharing service saw over half its seats go missing and presumed stolen on the very first day. The service was launched on Sunday (Aug 13), with over a thousand stools placed at bus stops in the Chinese capital, according to the Beijing Morning Post. There was a slow start to business due to the rainy weather, but by the end of the day, many of the seats had disappeared.

The president's move comes after two more bosses quit over his handling of the Charlottesville clashes.

Americans' debt level notched another record high in the second quarter, after having earlier in the year surpassed its pre-crisis peak, on the back of modest rises in mortgage, auto and credit card debt, where delinquencies jumped.

Last week we noted how the FCC was trying to lower the bar for broadband deployment by declaring that 10 Mbps wireless connections are "good enough." More specifically, FCC boss Ajit Pai is trying to manipulate the standard definition of broadband from the FCC's current fixed-line broadband definition of 25 Mbps down, 4 Mbps up -- to 10 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up. The goal, to reduce criticism of incumbent ISPs, many of which have lagged on network upgrades courtesy of an overall lack of competition.

Contaminated food is the price we will increasingly pay as the farming industry chases profits

If you’re test-driving a car at a dealership pay attention to the check engine light when you turn the key: it should temporarily flicker then go away. If it doesn’t, the dash has been tampered with to mask a potential issue. Also, if a dealership car is parked over a puddle they do not want you looking underneath it.

As movie theaters struggle with tepid sales, Mitch Lowe has an extreme proposal for how to get more people into seats: Let them come to all the showings they want for about the price of a single ticket each month. Lowe, an early Netflix Inc. executive who now runs a startup called MoviePass, plans to drop the price of the company’s movie ticket subscriptions on Tuesday to $9.95. The fee will let customers get in to one showing every day at any theater in the U.S...

A Subway shop where a worker was cleared of drugging a Utah police officer’s drink filed a lawsuit Wednesday saying police waited two months to publicly disavow the headline-making allegations despite internal evidence the officer had no drugs in his system.

Mylan NV has finalized a $465 million settlement with the U.S. Justice Department, resolving claims it overcharged the government for its EpiPen emergency allergy treatment, which became the center of a firestorm over price increases.

Earlier this year, when Christine Osborne first realized that fidget spinners — those small devices that have, seemingly overnight, colonized playgrounds and classrooms — were going to become a huge hit, she felt a deep anxiety. This was surprising, because Osborne owns multiple toy stores in South Carolina. Twenty years ago, she would have greeted a new fad like fidget spinners with glee.

This little brick factory isn’t supposed to be here. It should be in the Philippines, or Vietnam, maybe China. Not here, in the heart of Texas. Baseball gloves, like many other things, aren’t really made in America anymore. In the 1960s, production shifted to Asia and never came back. It might be America’s favorite pastime, and few things are more personal to baseball-lovers than their first glove — the smell, the feel, the memory of childhood summers.

Wells Fargo has already admitted to charging people for overdrawing bank accounts that they didn't have and for car insurance that they didn't need. Now, it's being accused of ripping off vulnerable mom-and-pop businesses. For several years, Wells Fargo's merchant services division overcharged small businesses for processing credit card transactions, a lawsuit alleges. Business owners who tried to leave Wells Fargo were charged "massive early termination fees," according to the lawsuit filed in US District Court.

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The damage inflicted on world stocks this week by the escalating war of words over North Korea topped $1 trillion on Friday, as investors again took cover in the yen, the Swiss franc, gold and government bonds.

The fledgling aquatic park reports more than $200 million in lost profits, falling attendance, and share values at their lowest since its 2013 IPO. This week, struggling aquatic park SeaWorld reported dismal sales, attendance, and stock values for its first and second quarter 2017 fiscal year. The park reported attendance was down by approximately 353,000 guests across its properties in the first half of 2017 and a net cash loss of $237 million in that time period...

SoundCloud has just closed the necessary funding round to keep the struggling music service afloat.

Monsanto continued to produce and sell toxic industrial chemicals known as PCBs for eight years after learning that they posed hazards to public health and the environment, according to legal analysis of documents put online in a vast searchable archive.

Snap’s Spectacles sunglasses may prove to be more of a fad than a must-have device. Snap revealed during its call following weak Q2 earnings that it generated $5.4 million in “Other” revenue, which would equate to around 41,500 pairs of its Spectacles camera sunglasses at a $130 price point. That’s compared to $8.3 million in Other revenue in Q1, or fewer than 64,000 pairs, meaning Spectacles sales have declined roughly 35 percent.

A source close to the eggless mayonnaise startup said that a mysterious letter — falsely attributed to Hampton Creek’s CEO — alleged that its products were unsafe and mislabeled.

Fuck Google and everything it pretends to represent.

It’s a milestone Warren Buffett probably wishes he weren’t approaching. Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the conglomerate he’s run for more than five decades, reported Friday that it held just shy of $100 billion in cash at the end of the second quarter.

Snap (SNAP), the parent company of Snapchat, is seeing steep increases in its losses while sales and user growth continue to disappoint. Its losses for the quarter ballooned to $443 million, a nearly fourfold increase from the same period a year earlier and worse than investors had expected. The messaging service added just seven million new daily active users in the second quarter, also falling short of estimates. It now has 173 million daily users, up from 166 million in the first quarter.

Burgers made from plants instead of animals are capturing more space on U.S. barbecue grills this summer, fueling sales in the niche products that could reach $5 billion globally by 2020. Plant-based meat foods are now available that include beet juice for color and canola oil to simulate fat. These changes are not only pulling in consumers but also one of the powerhouses in traditional meat production, Tyson Foods Inc.

A real estate technology company that aims to lower the cost of home-selling by using robots and “big data” instead of commission-based real estate agents has opened a Long Island office — its first outside of California. REX Real Estate Exchange, which charges a selling commission of 2 percent instead of the usual 5 percent to 6 percent, launched its Long Island operation last week, when it started operating out of a co-working space at RXR Plaza in Uniondale.

We've noted for years how cable executives facing market (r)evolution just can't stop making bone-headed decisions. As cord cutting accelerates and ratings take a dive, many cable and broadcast executives have decided the solution is to stuff more ads than ever into every viewing hour, in some instances actually editing down or speeding up programs so the additional ad load will fit.

Though many have tried, no online ticket sellers have even come close to touching Ticketmaster. It doesn’t hurt that its parent company is Live Nation, which owns or operates many of the bigg…

As the U.S. leaves the Paris Climate Accord, big business is stepping up to fill the gap. Richard Branson and other leaders explained their strategy at the DS Virgin Innovation Summit.

New U.S. sanctions will make it harder for Russia to build two gas export pipelines to Europe but the projects are unlikely to be stopped. U.S. President Donald Trump has reluctantly signed into law further sanctions on Russia but some of the measures are discretionary and most White House watchers believe he will not take action against Russia's energy infrastructure.

Fidelity is testing out a new service to help make life easier for its clients who invest in cryptocurrencies. The $2.3 trillion investor announced on Wednesday a partnership between its Fidelity Labs, the firm's innovation center, and Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange serving nearly 9 million customers.

There’s no shortage of bitcoin in Philadelphia. In Northern Liberties, the red-hot digital currency can be bought at a shipping services storefront. In West Philadelphia, customers can fill their virtual wallets after topping off their tanks at a Citgo gas station. And in Cheltenham Township, a bitcoin ATM will convert your cash to cryptocurrency at a Dollar Plus variety store, conveniently sandwiched between an Aldi supermarket and a pawn shop.

The damning documents were released by plaintiffs suing Monsanto in a claim that Roundup caused them to become ill with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Four months after the publication of a batch of internal Monsanto Co. documents stirred international controversy, a new trove of company records was released early Tuesday, providing fresh fuel for a heated global debate over whether or not the agricultural chemical giant suppressed information about the potential dangers of its Roundup herbicide and relied on U.S. regulators for help.