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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev gave the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda a tour of his office and showed off some of his stuff including some surprisingly old school electronics, his direct line to President Vladi...

The big excitement around Apple's fall product release will be the size of the new iPhone, which everyone expects will be called iPhone 6. The persistent rumors are that the new iPhones will come in two sizes, 4.7 and 5....

If you're going to buy in the Hamptons, you might as well go big. The Pond House by Georgica Pond in East Hampton is was recently listed for nearly $29 million. Everything from its high ceilings to the front portico giv...

When "X-Men: Days Of Future Past" rolls into theaters this weekend, you'll see a lot of Jennifer Lawrence dressed from head to toe in blue. The actress reprises her role of shapeshifter Mystique from "X-Men: First Class,...

They're on the go, living their lives on smartphones and using social media. They're skipping the doctor more and more, relying instead on pharmacists for medical advice. And they want to save money.

MEXICO CITY -- The crisis in Ukraine may create an opportunity for Mexico. Because the European Union depends on Russia for almost a quarter of the gas it needs, the instability is fueling Europe's desire to find other p...

It's official: This is going to be another year Target misses its mark. The embattled retailer slashed its full-year profit outlook Wednesday on a quarterly earnings drop, signaling that a...

Remember how panicked we all were about the Y2K crisis back in the year 2000? Everyone freaked out because computers only used two digits to represent a year in their internal clocks, so Jan. 1, 2000 would also be 1/1/00...

A big hotel with its own indoor water park is being built near Disneyland as a growing Wisconsin resort operator brings a new tourist attraction to Southern California.

A source confirmed to TechCrunch today that Apple's Beats deal is in fact happening. But Apple doesn't want beats for its technology; it wants Beats because of the talent.  "They want Jimmy and they want Dre," the sourc...

By Morgan Housel Benjamin Roth wasn't a professional writer or investor. But he wrote one of the most instructive investment books ever published. Roth, an Ohio lawyer, kept a diary during the Great Depression, writing s...

Unilever to sell Ragú and Bertolli brands to Japan's Mizkan Group for $2.15 billion, speeding up its move away from once-core foods business.

Vietnam has offered tax breaks and other incentives for companies whose factories were damaged or destroyed during anti-Chinese riots last week.

STOCKHOLM-- Spotify AB has more than 10 million paying subscribers and more than 40 million monthly active users, the company said in a rare update of its usage data on...

It hasn't been a great year for cyber security so far. Between the massive Heartbleed bug that was discovered in April, and numerous password breaches, the most recent coming from eBay, it's clear that there are some ser...

Keywords Press will release six to 10 titles annually, both in print and digital formats.

General Motors Co. is recalling more than 218,000 older Chevrolet small cars in the US and its territories due to a potential fire hazard, bringing US recalls this year to...

The initial public offering for JD.com was priced at $19 per American depositary share, valuing the company at nearly $26 billion.

Paris-based startup TVTY has just nabbed $4.5 million to lower the chances that you can avoid ads from a specific company by going online during TV commercial breaks. “TV viewers are looking at another screen during yo...

It's another effort for the cloud-based file-sharing company to get Box woven into applications.

The latest example of why bipartisanship is not necessarily good: A bill proposed by senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Pat Roberts (R-KN) to require the IRS to hire private debt collectors. The last time Congress mad...

The ease with which the term "big data" gets slung around obscures the complexity and awesomeness of the real work going on in the field.