12 simple sketches that perfectly illustrate the path to wealth and financial happiness

12 ways to identify the path to wealth and financial happiness. Associated Press New York Times columnist, author, and financial planner Carl Richards has made a career out of exposing and analyzing what he calls the "behavior gap" — the gap between what…

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The most expensive rental in the Hamptons costs $1 million per month — and it includes a private spa and a baseball field. Take a look inside.

The most expensive rental in the Hamptons this summer will set you back a cool $1 million a month, according to real-estate listing platform Out East. The Hamptons, a series of beach towns dotting eastern Long Island, New York, is known to be a popular vac…

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‘If you obey, you will be safe.’ Iran released dramatic video of its forces seizing a British tanker and the crew it interrogated

On Friday, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps captured a UK-flagged Swedish tanker, the Stena Impero, making it the second foreign vessel Iran had captured in the past week amid rising tensions between Iran and the West. On Monday, Iran's state-run F…

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Serverless, Inc expands free Framework to include monitoring and security

Serverless development has largely been a lonely pursuit until recently, but Serverless, Inc has been offering a free framework for intrepid programmers since 2015. At first, that involved development, deployment and testing, but today the company announced i…

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Slack speeds up its web and desktop client

Slack is launching a major update to its web and desktop today that doesn’t introduce any new features or a new user interface. Instead, it’s almost a complete rebuild of the underlying technology that makes these two experiences work. Over the course of the …

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UK challenger bank Atom raises another £50M from BBVA and more at £530M valuation

Another hopeful among Europe’s so-called challenger banks — startups taking on the big names in consumer banking by targeting niche groups of users with a more modern set of tools to manage users’ money — has raised a sizeable round of funding to expand its b…

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Just Eat makes layoffs in UK and Ireland after customer and restaurant ops merged

Just Eat, the publicly-listed takeout marketplace that has faced fierce competition from UberEats and Deliveroo in recent years, has made a round of layoffs in the U.K. and Ireland, TechCrunch has learned. Announced internally late on Friday, the redundancie…

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