How the cookie became a monster

When contract negotiations between Alaska Airlines and their flight attendants' union broke down in 1993, the union had a choice to make. The union — The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA — knew that if they chose to strike, Alaska Airlines could use a plan. While Alaska Airli ...  Show more

Back in 2005, Burt Banks inherited a plot of old family land in Delaware. But when it came time to sell it, he ran into a problem: his neighbor had a goat pen, and about half of it crossed over onto his property. Burt asked the goats' owner to move the pen, but when neighborly pe ...  Show more

Qu’est-ce qu’un cookie ? Merci d’avoir posé la question ! Un cookie est un petit fichier, stocké par nos ordinateurs dès qu’on visite un site internet. Certains cookies sont essentiels au fonctionnement actuel du web, mais d’autres peuvent s’avérer un peu intrusifs pour notre vie ...  Show more

Chances are that you bought something recently, or maybe you paid a friend- but you likely didn’t do that with physical cash, you probably did it via a digital payment online or with an app like Venmo or the Cash app. Everything is going digital these days and this presents a who ...  Show more

With $12,000 and a mascot named Snoo, two former college roommates designed a web site they hoped would become "the front page of the Internet." Today, despite growing pains, personal issues and persistent trolls, Reddit has over 300 million monthly users and is valued at 1.8 bil ...  Show more

In the not too distant past, money was simple. You might have had a bank account and a mortgage, perhaps some basic investments. Wall Street didn’t have a reputation for greed and recklessness.  That all started to change in the eighties, as our financial systems became increasin ...  Show more