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Change is difficult. Sometimes business people have the best intentions, but it is hard to make anything stick. It is no surprise that January 1st is the most popular time of year to join a health club. In addition, F...

Fending off elimination for the third straight game, the San Francisco Giants thrashed the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday night to earn the right to battle for their second World Series title in three years.

SAN FRANCISCO — From postseason bystander to starting the World Series opener. That's how far Barry Zito has come in two years to resurrect his...

When police phoned up Jose Marcos Araujo and told him his brother had been shot to death, he figured that meant he would never see Gilberto alive again. More »

Brown plays director and embraces his goth side for rock band signed to his new label. By Jocelyn Vena A scene from the set of U.G.L.Y.'s "Red" music video Photo: Chris Brown via Instagram

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Civil Protection agency said on Tuesday that the manslaughter conviction of seven scientists and officials over a deadly 2009 earthquake in the central city of L'Aquila would create "paralysis" i...

A company shows off its realistic monitors by making an elevator floor appear to disappear.

New York can be a tough place to make it for anyone, but for Anna Medyukh the task proved even more difficult on "My Shopping Addiction." She found herself $15,000 in debt thanks to her addiction. She was also facing evi...

An Arby's Restaurant in Dayton, Ohio, has fired its assistant general manager after she had to jump through the store's drive-through window to escape a knife-wielding robber. What's Arby's beef? Archer, the company says...

Madeleine Stowe was very distracted during her latest appearance on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon." She found herself very concerned that she might be having a wardrobe malfunction. She started out certain that she was f...

A dandelion-shaped ball aims to protect people from undetonated landmines -- just by blowing in the wind. Afghan-Dutch designer Massoud Hassani built the "Mine Kafon" by hand, according to the BBC. Powered by wind, the 1...

Companies like Google, Microsoft and Intel are scrambling to reinvent their businesses now that the old model — a customer sitting at a PC — no longer applies.

As has been broadly reported this morning, Utah-headquartered geneaology software firm Ancestry.com has entered an agreement to be acquired by an investment group lead by European private equity firm Permira for a report...

Those eighteen words got a founder and I kicked off of the trading floor of the NYSE earlier this evening. Because, as we shuffed out of the Girls Who Code event held there earlier tonight, we looked at the jumble of com...

It's hard to imagine a Facebook without likes, shares, or even timestamps, but that's exactly the world created by Facebook Demetricator — a browser extension that strips all social metrics from your Facebook acco...

In a world full of great entrepreneurial ideas, how do you get your idea to stand out from the others?

Giants complete NLCS comeback, return to World Series with 9-0 Game 7 win over Cardinals

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Chief Executive Marrisa Mayer promised to modernize Yahoo's websites and make them more smartphone-friendly in her debut appearance at the helm of the struggling company, faulting it for u...

Horses and bayonets. Yes, you heard that correctly during Monday's night third and final presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. And, no, you didn't fall into a time machine and end up in the year 1900....

I've never really been a fan of tapping a "Like" button on Facebook. Mostly because it doesn't always mean that I like something. I use that button as a way to say "hey I looked at this and it meant something", but maybe...

Column: Lance Armstrong cast out of the sport that turned him from a nobody to a somebody

More than 527 million YouTube views later, you may be sick of "Gangnam Style," the bizarre and baroque Korean music video that's become a viral grand slam. But if you think the song and dance are dead and over, you clear...