The worst week on Wall Street for months

There was no happy ending to a tough week on the U.S. stock market. The downturn continued right from the opening Friday on Wall Street.

Should you invest in stocks in times of war?

The year was 1815 and the financier Nathan Mayer Rothschild had seen it before. He knew exactly how the markets would react, now another battle in the Napoleonic wars was getting closer.

With the use of the most highly advanced communication technologies of the times - stagecoaches , semaphores and pigeons - he earned enormous amounts of money from its headquarters in London from speculating in the war, and his investment advice to other investors sounded calculating, cynical:

"Buy when the cannons thunder - sell when the trumpets sound".

Bitcoin giant gone offline: Billions evaporated

One of the world's largest Bitcoin exchanges, MtGox, has gone offline. Trade with the virtual currency, Bitcoins, is being halted on the site and customers are asking : What will happen with our money?

That’s why Zuckerberg spends 16 billions on an app



The world's largest social media, Facebook Thursday bought the mobile app WhatsApp for $ 16 billion. An app that is free for users to download and doesn’t earn money on advertising. A good deal?

Bitcoin collapses after technical problems

Most currencies are experiencing a decline every now and then. But a dive of the size, the virtual currency Bitcoin saw yesterday, are rarely seen.