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Massachusetts officials will delay collecting payments related to the recently passed software services tax, which now appears like it will be repealed by state lawmakers in the coming weeks.     

Five years after the unofficial start of the financial crisis, one of the new additions to the Forbes 400: Definitive Ranking of the Richest Americans (out this morning) made his fortune refinancing underwater homes. Wil...

For most of the hundreds of millions of Scrabble players around the world, spelling a word worth 20 points is a decent turn. The very top tournament players, however, aren't happy unless they can score around 35 or more...

He has never been elected to anything, not even "student council in high school," as he boasts. He has little patience for schmoozing. In dealing with people, he admits to being "pretty blunt" - more suited to running a ...

Young millionaires are far more optimistic than their older counterparts, according to a new survey from Fidelity Investments. The Boston-based financial services company known for mutual funds and retirement savings pro...

Asian stock markets rose Monday after economist Lawrence Summers withdrew as a candidate to head the Federal Reserve, a development that many investors believe will prolong the U.S. central bank's monetary stimulus. The ...

Could Tim Tebow be headed for the playing fields of Mother Russia? A new report published by English-language blog Russia Behind The Headlines (RBTH) alleges that the 26-year-old quarterback, recently released by the New...

NEW YORK -- JPMorgan Chase & Co. could pay $800 million or more in penalties to settle investigations into its "London Whale" trading debacle, according to a person familiar with the bank's negotiations with regulators. ...

Unlikely to win confirmation, Lawrence Summers withdraws his bid to be the next Fed chairman. Top contender Janet L. Yellen could become the first woman to lead the central bank.WASHINGTON — With political opposition m...

California's Crystal Lee is first runner-up. Much viewer attention goes to the contestant in Army boots.ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Nina Davuluri became the first contestant of Indian heritage and the second consecutive cont...

As football has changed and evolved through the years, so have the cheerleaders. Back in the 1960s and 1970s, cheerleaders stuck to leading the crowd and cheering on their teams with big poofy pom-poms. Now, a lot of che...

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made a disclosure recently that should be getting more attention, Lincoln Caplan writes in The New Yorker. Justice Ginsburg said at the National Constitutional Center last week t...

Crude-oil futures move lower as a deal to avert a military strike on Syria weighs on prices, which fail to get a lift from a weaker U.S. dollar.

Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is the richest person in the world.     

Italian officials have given the go-ahead to an attempt to right the Costa Concordia, the cruise ship that capsized 20 months ago.     

TOKYO (AP) -- A powerful typhoon was bearing down on Japan and headed toward Tokyo on Monday, dumping torrential rains, damaging homes and flooding parts of the country's popular tourist destination of Kyoto, where 260,0...

Like many grocery shoppers, Michele Ricketts dreads long checkout lines.

American Airlines and US Airways are unlikely to raise fares because it would give the U.S. another reason to oppose their merger, analyst says. A federal lawsuit to stop the proposed merger of American Airlines and US A...

I knew it was going to rain only days after booking a flight to visit Colorado this past weekend. I just didn't realize how much. The weather quickly sidelined my plans to take a dirt bike up to an abandoned ghost town, ...

Recently, The Washington Post published an article about how Google's HR team uses data to optimize their selection of office snacks. And yesterday I found an article about the personas that matter most to business analy...

BRUSSELS (AP) -- Belgium's main phone operator said Monday its systems have been hacked in what the government described as a suspected incident of cyber-espionage.     

Mandarin Oriental just announced it plans to open a 1,300-foot skyscraper hotel in Shenzhen. The fact such a development was barely noticed is truly amazing — because not so many years ago, Shenzhen used to barely hav...