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Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey just highlighted a new way to use Vine, his company's app for sharing short, simply edited videos. He snapped a bunch of old photos of himself, going back to baby pics. It's decades of life ...

The "bare fleshy under curves" of everyone's buttocks are drooping a little lower today, as CBS' Standards & Practices department has issued a harshly-worded email forbidding all Grammy attendees from flashing their soft...

Rand Paul appeared at the Heritage Foundation Wednesday morning to give his break-out speech detailing his vision for American foreign policy. Though the speech lacked in specifics, Paul made some savvy observations abou...

Oreo is getting social media totally right -- lighthearted, open, and human. It's also pretty fun for fans when brands interact with each other. It just makes everything feel less... corporate. You see, Oreo has been run...

North Carolina had fewer scholarships to give out this year and coach Larry Fedora was frugal in handing them out.

As Business Insider first reported yesterday, Twitter has bought Bluefin Labs, the Cambridge, Mass.-based maker of tools for measuring the impact of social media on TV viewing. Twitter COO Ali Rowghani said in a blog pos...

North Carolina had fewer scholarships to give out this year and coach Larry Fedora was frugal in handing them out.

When teams are on the cusp of greatness, the last step to get the team over the edge can oftentimes but a trade with a rebuilding team. Teams are often looking to get salary off their books and hoard draft picks to rebui...

For the second time, the NFL career of quarterback Michael Vick is at a crossroads. Two years after a triumphant return to the National Football League, the 32-year-old southpaw struggled through a miserable 2012 campaig...

It's difficult to conceive of any team winning a Stanley Cup unless it is strong on the defensive end. A few generations ago, the Edmonton Oilers of the 1980s could string together championships because they could outsco...

How could an ad celebrating the American farmer paint such a distorted picture of the people who actually work on farms today? The reality is that farmworkers are systematically underpaid and under-appreciated.

U.S. and British regulators announced a $612 million settlement on Wednesday with Royal Bank of Scotland, with the global bank acknowledging that it manipulated key benchmark interest rates to benefit...

Be aware that the person you are speaking with has no time for you until you prove you can give them something they might need or want, so having your elevator pitch ready is always a must. -- Emily Blumenthal

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A blizzard watch was issued early Thursday as a powerful winter storm threatened to dump up to 2 feet of snow across Boston and other parts of the Northeast on Friday night.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was speaking about her love of opera music with New York's WQXR radio program earlier this week when, somehow, the death penalty came up. According to Think Progress, she said sh...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a leading proponent of overhauling the immigration system who has gained attention in GOP circles, will deliver the Republican response to President Barack Obama's State of th...

Deep in the heart of Europe sits a massive display full of live camera feeds from all over the world. Visitors drop by to peer in on unsuspecting strangers, staring blankly at scenes both intimate and banal -- sleeping b...

Dell founder Michael Dell is taking his company private by giving the money back to shareholders. Why is he doing that, where is the company going, and can Mike make it?

Philip Marley came up with a clever scheme to profit from Ireland's acute shortage of student accommodation.

Tsunami generated by 8.0 quake in South Pacific, several island nations under warning