Kevin Poirier

Top Spooky Sales of Halloween 2017 Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and caldron bubble. In this spooky time of year, let Halloween sales appear!  For those still looking to get in on some Halloween action, without breaking the bank, you are in luck! Sales to commemorate the unholy holiday abound, and we've got you covered for some of the best ones to check out this Halloween season. The Evil Within: $9.99  (50% off on Steam): If you are looking for a classic survival horror experience, you can't go wrong with  The Evil Within.  Developed by Shinji Mikami, the creator of the acclaimed Resident Evil series, the game tells the story of Detective Sebastian Castellanos, as he and his team investigate the scene of a mass murder. When things go south, Sebastian finds himself among a demented world of undead horror, forced to fight to survive. The game has been positively received since its 2014 release,  teetering around 80% positive user reviews on its steam pa...

Get Trading Recommendations and Read Analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. Bitcoin cash proponents Roger Ver and Calvin Ayre have announced a plan to use their influence and considerable wealth to rebrand bitcoin cash as "bitcoin". Ver, an early bitcoin investor once nicknamed "Bitcoin Jesus", has incurred the ire of much of the bitcoin community over the past several years, primarily due to his repeated support for contentious hard forks associated with the evolving block size debate. He owns and operates Bitcoin.com, a news and information outlet that critics claim gives new users the impression that it is an official Bitcoin resource. Ayre, meanwhile, is a billionaire entrepreneur who made his fortune by founding an internet gambling and entertainment empire. He entered the crypto space several years ago, owns several small crypto news outlets, and has reportedly provided Craig Wright with financial backing. Calvin Ayre with Roger Ver, Oct 2017 (P...

Here are more than a few things going on in your world of tech, with the Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLK) up fractionally to a new 52-week high. Apple (AAPL) shares were up 1.5% in midday trading after KeyBanc Capital upgraded the stock to Overweight, saying the aggressive move to "subscription-like" phone purchases can offset slowing sales, MarketWatch reports. KeyBanc's base-case price target is $187, which is 17% above a recent price of $159.41. Also among analyst upgrades and downgrades: PayPal Holdings (PYPL) shares are down 1.4% today, though Instinet raised its price target to $75. PayPal's market value passed that of American Express (AXP) last week thanks to a nearly 75% rally in its stock price this year, The Wall Street Journal reports. Morgan Stanley  upgraded PayPal shares last week and said the stock could reach $88 in a best-case scenario. More on that in the latest Barron's magazine research summary. MACOM Technology solutions ...

Royal Bank of Canada's David McKay said he has "real concerns" about bitcoin. But unlike JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s Jamie Dimon, fraud isn't one of them. "I would never call it a fraud because it's not misrepresenting what it is," McKay, the lender's chief executive officer, said Monday in an interview in Toronto after announcing a blockchain partnership with the U.S. bank. "People have placed value on what it is in different ways -- and they're fine to do that -- but it's not fraudulent in its misrepresentation." Last month, Dimon called bitcoin "a fraud," and "worse than tulip bulbs" at an investor conference in New York, saying he would fire any employee trading the cryptocurrency for being "stupid." The JPMorgan CEO repeated much of his September rant on Friday at the annual meeting of the Institute of International Finance in Washington, saying that governments will crush it one day and callin...

Uncanny! Christian Bale and Amy Adams transform into Dick Cheney and wife Lynne as they're pictured on set of biopic Published: 17:09 BST, 13 October 2017 | Updated: 18:16 BST, 13 October 2017 67 shares Christian Bale and Amy Adams are transformed into Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne for the upcoming biopic about the former US Vice President. The actors were seen back on set in Sylmar, California on Thursday wearing 1970s garb as they chatted with production crew in-between scenes. Bale, 43, showed off his weight gain in a beige and green checked shirt and was clean shaven apart from thick sideburns making him look almost identical to the Nebraska-born politician.    In character: Christian Bale and Amy Adams are pictured on set as Dick and Lynne Cheney on Thursday as they film the new biopic about the former US Vice President All American: Dick Cheney, now 76, is pictured with wife Lynne and their two daughters Mary and Liz in 1978 Playing Cheney...