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· Greg Muender
Business was booming. It was March of 2012, and the company that I started in college had been up and running for over two years, slowly but steadily increasing headcount to a team of about ten. Our modest three room office was bursting at the seams, so we decided to expand. And…
· Sebastian Dillon
It’s no secret that many people aren’t happy with Facebook for its privacy issues. Many have voiced their discontent through social media and in online petitions; in the case of Brooklyn-based artist KATSU, however, he felt the best way to make his feelings known was through…
· Editorial Staff
In 2000, journalist-turned-entrepreneur Ben Huh launched a startup with the hopes of it becoming the next big thing. After 18 months of blood and sweat and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars of investment money without significant success, Huh was forced to shut it all…
· Benny Luo
While NextShark has done a lot of interviews in the past, it was our recent interview with world champion boxer Manny Pacquiao that really tested our ability to be efficient. As expected from a celebrity of Pacquiao’s caliber, his schedule was constantly filling up and changing.…
· Waylae Gregoire
Like it or not, porn is a pretty big part of society. We might not talk about it openly (or ever), but odds are that if you don’t watch porn, you could be one of the weird ones. But it’s likely we’ll never know for sure — after all, it’s one of society’s best kept secrets.
· Benny Luo
Every year, a group of high level people including billionaires, celebrities and politicians gather for the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, an annual exclusive leadership conference for the one percent who want to “map the key transformations reshaping the world.”…
· Benny Luo
While money isn’t everything, it can and does save lives … and in ways you would never expect. In a story out of China, a man named Xiao Li who had been in a coma for over a year suddenly awakened after getting a whiff of cash that a nurse waved under his nose.
· Sebastian Dillon
Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and author of “Lean In,” and Adam Grant, professor of management at the Wharton School, are crime fighters. What crime are they battling, you ask? When women are wrongfully accused of “speaking while female” in a room full of men. The pair start…
· Sebastian Dillon
“I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyer belt and drop into a large bin. They made their way through the machine, getting boiled and treated. A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water.”
· Jacob Wagner
Let’s face it: Most of us can’t help but check our phones, read our tablets or watch TV before sleeping, even though studies have shown that staring at electronic screens has a negative impact on our sleep. However, considering all the late night hours we spend working, studying…
· Waylae Gregoire
Secret footage taken from Chinese factories and illegal child-labor mines show the horrible price paid to make iPhones and iPads.
· Max Chang
In a heartbreaking story out of Fuzhou, China, a woman named Ni Qiong was forced to put up her 1-year-old daughter for sale on the street in order to come up with the approximately $15,730 USD needed to pay for her husband’s medical bills.
· Alan Van
[Updated 12-10-14 11:01 p.m. PST: Apparently, this is NOT the first time Professor Edelman has bullied a restaurant]
· Sarah Lesnar
If you’re in need of a handsome man — and who isn’t — Tokyo-based service company Support One can rent you one for the right price.
· Sebastian Dillon
Are rich people douchebags? According to the research, the answer is: YES.
· Editorial Staff
Thanks to a Japanese company, you can now buy your own privacy cube to shield yourself from the outside world and other humans.
· Benny Luo
When I was 13 years old, I was still trading Pokemon cards and working up the nerve to ask my crush to the school dance. Thirteen-year-old Shubham Banerjee, however, is already the CEO of a company that’s so badass that Intel’s looked past his young age and invested hundreds of…
· Jacob Wagner
Researchers have discovered some troubling news about a popular food we all eat: rice is loaded with cancer-causing inorganic arsenic — so much that they are recommending small children not to eat rice “more than twice per month.” In findings released yesterday, Consumer Reports…
· Max Chang
When we need Wi-Fi in public, sometimes it seems like we’ll say to ourselves, “I’ll take the first one I can get — I don’t care how shady it seems.” It might be slow, but free internet is always better than the Dark Ages-like periods when we don’t have any access. Unfortunately,…
· Alan Van
Goddamnit, Asians and their iPhone troubles never end. The story of a 19-year-old international student from India being bilked by another suspect store at Sim Lim Square in Sinagpore has just emerged from The Straits Times (they should be sending royalty checks to Sim Lim…
