Monthly Archives: May 2015

Entrepreneur Using Fantasy Sports Concept To Drive Sales For Hewlett-P...

May 27, 2015

Don’t ever underestimate the ingenuity of Americans. A prime example is an entrepreneur who has taken the concept of fantasy sports competition and translated it into a company that is driving sales ...

RAGS TO RICHES TYCOON: From kaya toast to rolling in dough

May 27, 2015

More than 30 years ago, Mr Luke Lim would make his way to a coffee shop in River Valley after school each day to help his mother run a drinks stall. The pint-sized primary school kid – who coul...

Barrel Rolling With A Thrillionaire Entrepreneur

May 26, 2015

Founding a technology company can be an exercise in excitement, adrenaline, stomach-flips and occasional nausea. When that starts to get old, some tech founders search for those same feelings in aero...

How an entrepreneur stopped chasing every new idea so he could focus o...

May 26, 2015

The 21 Day Timehacker Project matches readers with coaches who help them find time for their most important goals. THE GOAL: Charlie Poznek, 55, of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, knows what it’s like to be...

ScarJo: Letterman is ‘exciting dinner date’

May 26, 2015

When he retires Wednesday, ‘Late Show’ host David Letterman will have hosted 6,028 late-night talk-show broadcasts over 33 years. VPC In the weeks leading up to his final broadcast, David...

Omani adventurer gets going again; this time 25 countries in 60 days

May 26, 2015

MUSCAT – Omani adventurer Maher al Barwani is at it again. It’s less than a year when he finished a 21-country journey on bike and he’s off again. This time there are 25 countries o...

Why Giovani Dos Santos Is Still a Hugely Exciting Talent for Mexico

May 26, 2015

Ever since Giovani dos Santos showed his skills at the 2005 U-17 World Cup, it was clear that he was going to be a player to follow. He was just 16 years old at that time and was the only footballer ...

New Rules Could Make Formula One Exciting Again

May 26, 2015

Ferrari pit stop refueling. MARTIN GNEDT/AP TO HARDCORE FANS, Formula One is the premier motor racing series in the world. But for the more casual observer, Formula One has gotten a little… stale. Me...

Bernie: Grichuk’s raw talent is charismatic

May 26, 2015

St. Louis Cardinals center fielder Randal Grichuk (15) makes a diving catch on a line drive hit by New York Mets Michael Cuddyer with two men on base during the third inning of a baseball game Wednes...

IPL eight: An unpredictable but exciting story so far

May 26, 2015

David Warner of SRH. Photo: K.R. Deepak David Warner may have emerged as the individual top run-getter in the round robin stage of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL), but such is the unpredictab...

The Jordans: Pacquiaos in the making

May 15, 2015

Poverty, as these young boxers see in their two home-grown idols, can be knocked out in the boxing ring GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Boxing hero Manny Pacquiao still has to decide when to hang his gloves af...

In Images: Antarctic Explorer Robert Falcon Scott’s Last Photos

May 15, 2015

Photographs taken by Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott during his ill-fated Terra Nova expedition are being auctioned off in London today (April 28). The explorer died in March 1912, just months...

7 Lessons From the World’s Greatest Explorer

May 15, 2015

Recently, I had the pleasure to interview Sir Ranulph Fiennes – the world’s greatest living explorer – for Spartan Up! The Podcast. Fiennes has an arsenal of backbreaking, boundary-...

Famed TV Explorer David Attenborough Shares His Favorite Adventure

May 15, 2015

Sir David Attenborough in Beijing, holding a fossil of hadrocodium, as featured in the Smithsonian Channel series, “Rise of Animals – Triumph of the Vertebrates,” premiering Wednesday, May 13. Credit...

Millionaire entrepreneur crashed his dream £170,000 Ferrari just five ...

May 15, 2015

Rob Moore, 36, had only bought the 458 Spider on Thursday last week Entrepreneur lost control while taking a corner in Peterborough, Cambs Car went through a bush and smashed into a boundary post Fat...