Megyn Kelly: 'I felt like a human being who had been dropped into a shark tank'
"I felt like a human being who had been dropped into a shark tank." Fox News host Megyn Kelly says that's what it felt like when Donald Trump was attacking her in interviews and in tweetstorms. Kelly attracted Trump's ire during the first GOP primary debate in August 2015, when she asked him about his track record of misogynistic comments. Trump criticized her for months afterward, sometimes in highly personal ways, which triggered threats to her safety. "We had secu...
8 reasons why starting a trade war with China is a bad idea
Donald Trump the campaigner talked tough on China: He threatened to slap tariffs of 45% on Chinese exports, and promised to label Beijing a "currency manipulator." "We can't continue to allow China to rape our country, and that's what they're doing," he told supporters in May. Threats to global trade will feature heavily in discussions among world leaders gathering for the APEC summit in Peru this week. It's too early to say whether President-elect Trump will fo...
U.S. panel wants to ban China from buying American firms
The backlash against China's epic global shopping spree just intensified: a U.S. government panel is trying to stop Chinese state firms from snapping up American companies. Warning of a threat to national security, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission wants the United States to block Chinese state-owned companies from carrying out takeovers in the country. Chinese companies are buying up foreign businesses at a record rate this year, fueling unease and objecti...
Play this coding game. Score a job in Silicon Valley
It took less than three months for an online coding game to transform James Johnston's life. Johnston, 31, was designing software for orthodontists and living in Chattanooga, Tennessee, when he landed a better-paid software engineering job in Silicon Valley at a major tech startup. The key to this career upgrade and cross-country move? CodeFights, an online game that offers programmers the chance to improve their skills and get noticed by Silicon Valley titans like Ubera...
Facebook is well aware that it can influence elections
During the Republican primaries, Facebook's powerful data told those working to get Ted Cruz elected which ads could win over Donald Trump voters. One video highlighted Trump's coziness with politicians over the years. The other featured an impassioned Cruz speech about being an outsider who could fix Washington. The ads were largely informed by and distributed through Facebook (FB, Tech30). Tommy Swanson, CEO of a digital marketing agency called Stripes, used Faceboo...
Russia has officially banned LinkedIn.
The country's communications regulator has blacklisted the social network for professionals because it has not complied with personal data storage regulations. The site was inaccessible from Russia on Thursday. LinkedIn (LNKD, Tech30) had been found to be in violation of a rule requiring data on Russian citizens to be stored on servers inside the country. Two different courts had previously ruled against LinkedIn on the matter. LinkedIn, which is being acquired ...
Supermarkets get Trump bump. Food prices to jump?
Whole Foods has a reputation for being a company that liberals tend to shop at more than conservatives -- even though there was that one time CEO John Mackey referred to Obamacare as being akin to "fascism." But Whole Foods (WFM) investors seem to be looking forward to a world under Donald Trump. The stock has surged 6% since Election Day. And it's not the only supermarket posting super returns lately. Whole Foods organic rival Sprouts (SFM) h...
