Whoever thinks that brains and beauty don't mix clearly hasn't heard about these 30 executives in the tech industry.

They're intelligent, successful, and not bad to look at. 

Some of the people on this list are worth millions, or even billions of dollars. Others are

The Nikkei hit a fresh 5.5-year high after soaring 1.9% to 15,942.60 today. But it then went red falling as much as 0.5%, only to climb back up 0.3%.

The recent rally in Japanese stocks has been attributed to 'Abenomics' — Japan's aggressive stimulus

A group of anonymous hackers sympathetic to the regime of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is causing havoc with the world's media.

They call themselves the Syrian Electronic Army, and they're devoted to attacking sites they deem defamatory to the Syrian government.

The group

HSBC China Flash Manufacturing PMI fell to a seven-month low of 49.6 in May.

A reading below 50 indicates contraction.

This missed expectations for manufacturing to hold steady at 50.4.

"The cooling manufacturing activities in May reflected slower domestic demand and ongoing

Tilda Swinton is the new face of Chanel's "Metiers d'Art Paris-Edimbourg collection," which (as the name suggests) has a Scottish theme.

Although the lanky, 52-year-old, Oscar-winning actress was born and raised in England, she has Scottish family.

Chanel has depicted her wearing rich, dark faux tartan

Yext is a quiet giant in the business of local marketing. You don't go on its site to find a business. Instead, through its PowerListings service, Yext makes sure that when you search for a business on Yahoo, Yelp, Foursquare, or Patch, you get the

HSBC China Flash PMI for May is out at 9:45 p.m. ET.

Economists polled by Bloomberg are looking for manufacturing PMI to hold steady at 50.4.

Deutsche Bank's John Horner writes that tonight's "Flash PMI is even more important than usual."

Glassdoor just released its ranking of the top 10 tech companies with the best business outlook in the next six months, as rated by the firms' own staff.

Employees that work at these companies are optimistic because they are working on the latest and greatest

Enterprise technology is a $1 trillion market. It's also become a hot focus for startups and investors as new tech ranging from big data to software-defined networking upend the old-school stuff.

Before writing checks for projects that may cost their companies tens of thousands up

Yelp has been the subject of a new crop of stories from business owners claiming they are being shaken down to become advertisers.

Last month, LA Times columnist Sandy Banks reported on a sign she saw at a local restaurant: "Stop the Bully.