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Medium-sized beer brewers like Heineken, Molson Coors and Carlsberg are under fire from two sides: The behemoth AB InBev and craft brewers.

  There was plenty of anxiety on Wall Street last week, as investors had many things to digest. First came continuing jitters over the future of Valeant Pharmaceuticals, which cooled off the once hot healthcare sector. ...

Last week's Fox Business Network Republican presidential debate started off with a challenging question about the federally mandated minimum wage. The leading candidates rejected raising it to $15 per hour, but they coul...

"Wow...That made me change my mind on Barbie." That sentence, posted by a Facebook user in the comments section beneath a new Barbie doll commercial, probably set off celebratory bells in the advertising department of Ma...

Space is not an issue in and around this expansive 6,000-square-foot house near Blue Hills Reservation -- the Globe's Home of the Week.

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Apple has $205 billion-plus cash on hand, but the struggling music labels gave its nascent subscription streaming service Apple Music a big financial break. Universal Music owner Vivendi admitted as much during its earni...

Earlier this week, Google made a splash when it released its TensorFlow article intelligence software on GitHub under an open-source license. Google has a sizable stable of AI talent, and AI is working behind the scenes ...

Federal and state prosecutors are poised to announce a settlement with Education Management Corporation, one of the nation's largest for-profit college chains, that would resolve allegations it defrauded taxpayers out of...

More than 7 in 10 millennials feel confident about their credit knowledge, a survey says. But their scores are generally very low.          

The potential for new technology to cause upheaval for utilities is getting a lot of attention these days.          

The country has been accused of acting like a low-tax haven, giving breaks that have attracted international companies. Now Ireland is phasing out some breaks, but adding another.

America's retirement savings gap is huge, but myRA (my Retirement Account), a new government retirement plan, will do little to reduce it, say advisers reviewing the program. Some praised the attempt to help millions of ...

Airlines continued to operate flights to Paris on Saturday, but the terror attacks in the French capital left tourists and business travelers wondering whether to cancel upcoming trips. …

United Airlines seems to be making strides toward fulfilling a promise by its new CEO to be more customer-friendly by dropping one of its fees and upgrading its coffee. United on Nov. 2 dropped a $50 "processing fee" it ...

The series of coordinated attacks that struck Paris Friday evening may represent a new era of expanded activity for the Islamic State. If the group's claims that it is responsible for the attacks are true, it would the f...

GUEST: High performance sports teams know that to win consistently, you have to be willing to do what it takes to recruit the best players. Giancarlo Stanton recently made headlines when the Miami Marlins baseball team a...

The company announced that it has fundraised 1 million yen (about $815,000) from Salesforce Ventures, the investment arm of Salesforce.com, as well as from Incubate Fund.

Have you ever had one of those ‘Aha’ moments when you knew your life was about to change forever? I distinctly remember mine. It started with the first recruit to my Personal Board of Directors: my husband, the entre...

Operating in the new world of networked communities calls for a higher standard of leadership truthfulness than ever before.

GUEST: To marketers, social media and other forms of consumer data represent new struggles. To turn these struggles into viable strategies, marketers need fresh and innovative approaches -- but they should also follow th...

Just like in Star Wars, there are Darth Vaders running amok in many workplaces. But that doesn't mean you have submit to the Dark Side of the Force. Here are five ways to keep your Jedi calm in a not-so-Jedi world: