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Saying there are a lot of comic book movies coming out in the next few years is a massive understatement. More than 30 superhero movies are expected to released by Disney, Warner Bros., Fox, and Sony Pictures as nearly e...

Today we know that sugar is not a health food and that too much of it can spark weight gain and leave people saddled with chronic diabetes, obesity, and other problems. But it wasn't always like this. In John Oliver's re...

Marvel Studios unveiled the release dates for nine movies at a press event in Hollywood Tuesday. The announcement that sent fans into a tailspin was the reveal of "The Avengers 3," which will be split into two parts. Mar...

“Negotiation is like jazz. It is improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don’t know how to get there. It’s not linear.” So says Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, former US ambassador to the U...

Despite the huge benefits, many small businesses still don’t have a website. Dan Martin explains why entrepreneurs need to be online and introduces BusinessZone's new Winning On The Web campaign presented in associatio...

What happens when you end up with a really bad boss ? Do you just grin and bear it, complain to higher authorities, look for an escape route, or do something else? Here are some ideas about how to survive.

Retail executive and serial entrepreneur Marcus Lemonis is famous for his brutal honesty with struggling businesses on his CNBC show, "The Profit." In the show, Lemonis invests in various companies that are heading for d...

The company's metals business did all right, despite rising coal costs, due to higher volumes and steady realizations

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- College tuition costs may be climbing, but that doesn't mean collegesaare hurting. In fact, a number of universities are sitting on mountains of cash as measured by the size of their endowments. A...

The Reverend Al Sharpton used to weigh 305 pounds -- no surprise, considering that the prominent reverend and activist used to incorporate fried chicken into all three meals of the day. He added fried chicken to breakfas...

HP just announced its newest all-in-one desktop computer, the Sprout, and it's unlike anything we've ever seen before. Instead of a keyboard and mouse, the Sprout features a touch mat with a capacitive touch screen. The ...

According to a recent survey of 2.8 million small businesses in Texas, building a successful company is a learned craft, not an innate ability.

Here's a bad sign for CurrentC, the fledgling mobile payment system in development by a consortium of retailers.  CurrentC is sending emails to people who signed up for the beta version of the app warning them "that un...

Build a team you can depend on, and ask the right questions of those you hire, advises tech entrepreneur Steven Beckford. The post Steven Beckford: Choose your partners as you would a spouse was first published on MoneyW...

Since Marissa Mayer started Google's associate product manager program -- APM for short -- more than a decade ago, it has swelled into one of the company's most elite entry-level positions.  Mayer started the two-year...

The recent drop in oil prices has captured the attention of many investors lately. Oil is trading roughly 25% lower than its high for the year, and oil-company stock prices have been affected by the drop, making them att...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares ofaAmerican Realty Capital Healthcare Trust fell 2.26% to $11.02 in afternoon trading Wednesday asaAmerican Realty Capital Propertiesa , which sponsored and managed the trust, fired its CFO...

American Realty Capital Properties, the massive REIT founded by recently-minted billionaire Nick Schorsch, has fired its CFO over accounting errors that inflated the company's earnings and were intentionally not correcte...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of American Realty Capital Properties Inc.a are tumbling, down 26.09% to $9.15, in morning trading on Wednesday after theareal estate investment trust announced that CFO Brian Block and Chi...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is examining how private equity firms report a key metric of their past performance when they market new funds to investors, as the regulator boosts its scrutiny of...

Search Jim Cramer's "Mad Money" trading recommendations using our exclusive "Mad Money" Stock Screener. NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Here's what Jim Cramer had to say about some of the stocks callers offered up during the Mad...

Being a productive employee isn't always on the individual. The whole company has to be supportive. As the CEO of a startup, I've realized how important it is to increase productivity while at the same time limiting expe...