©2015 Bloomberg News NXEO626K50Y4 (Bloomberg) — European startups are so hungry for cash that executives and would-be investors at this week’s Dublin Web Summit are concealing their ID badges and even taking refuge with reporters to avoid being accosted by desperate entrepreneurs. “It’s really crazy. You get people walking alongside you

©2015 Bloomberg News NXHZOA6S972B (Bloomberg) — As tourists abandon the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, government and aviation officials warned that global airport security will need to be reviewed if suspicions are confirmed that a bomb brought down a Russian jetliner over Sinai. While officials don’t have enough evidence yet to

©2015 Bloomberg News NXHJFO6K50XS (Bloomberg) — It was the 80 seconds China and Taiwan had waited almost 70 years for. Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Taiwanese counterpart, Ma Ying-jeou, smiled in dark suits –Xi wearing a Communist red tie, Ma, a Nationalist blue one — as they shook hands

After analyzing over a year of data from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission, scientists are seeing some patterns.  Launched in July 2014, OCO-2, an experimental carbon-dioxide measurement mission, is designed to give the international science community a new view of the global carbon cycle in unprecedented detail. During its

©2015 Bloomberg News NXD6LN6K50YP (Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc. has started a new research team to work on areas like virtual-reality and augmented-reality content creation, and raided Microsoft’s research labs for its first three hires. The social network’s new Seattle-based Computational Photography applied research group website lists Michael Cohen, Rick Szeliski and

©2015 Bloomberg News NXD4FL6S972E (An earlier version of this article mistakenly said that women who showed a strong commitment to family earned 3.4 percent of what family-oriented men did. They earn 3.4 percent less than family-oriented men.) (Bloomberg) — Education can be transformative, but it isn’t improving the chasm between what men and women make. In

©2015 Bloomberg View NXD24H6S972C (Bloomberg View) — Three years ago, demographer and political scientist Nicholas Eberstadt of the conservative American Enterprise Institute wrote an influential little book on what he called the “entitlement epidemic.” The book, “A Nation of Takers,” was free of partisan rancor — Eberstadt pointed out that

©2015 Bloomberg View NXAZHI6S9728 (Bloomberg View) — Pot is news, and Ohio voters’ rejection of an amendment to legalize marijuana Tuesday deserves the headlines it’s gotten. But a more important story is easy to miss: Those same voters amended the Ohio Constitution to make it very difficult for future initiative

©2015 Bloomberg View NXBCI96JTSEJ (Bloomberg View) — Governor Chris Christie has finally hit a chord in his struggling quest for the presidency. And he did it by echoing former Democratic Representative Barney Frank’s quip that pro-life Republicans “believe that life begins at conception and ends at birth.” At a campaign

©2015 Bloomberg News NXBDPOSYF01V (Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc. notched another quarter of revenue that beat estimates after stepping up its mobile- advertising efforts. The company running the world’s biggest social network reported third-quarter sales of $4.5 billion, compared with the $4.37 billion average analyst estimate, according to data compiled by