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On October 10, 2012, The United States Department of Justice unsealed an Indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Miami, FL, charging 10 individuals in connection with a vending machine “business opportunity�...

Let the ride-sharing wars begin. Ride-sharing startup SideCar has raised $10 million in Series A financing from Google Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners to take on others in the space.

Robert Kiyosaki, author of the bestselling Rich, Dad, Poor Dad series of financial advice books, is offering his fans yet another lesson in how the rich are different than you and me: they file for bankruptcy not beca...

Cleaning staff in Tokyo have seven minutes between arrival and departure to clean the world's fastest train.

On the campaign trail Romney says we shouldn't ship jobs to China and should "crack down" on China trade problems. But he refuses to help or even meet with the Sensata workers whose jobs are being shipped to China right ...

Conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court aimed withering questions at lawyers defending the University of Texas's affirmative-action program today, asking how the school could determine when it had accomplished th...

How clever of Matthew May to design Laws of Subtraction as what Frans Johansson dubs a “hook”  -- something concrete around which we can gain clarity in our own thinking and are pulled into contributing re...

Americans will pay more to heat their homes this winter as they feel something they didn't feel much of last year: cold.

You don't have to be a genius to like chocolate, but geniuses are more likely to eat lots of chocolate, at least according to a new paper published in the august New England Journal of Medicine. Franz Messerli reports...

Last April, after Facebook(FB) caught most of the tech world off guard -- especially the folks at Twitter -- by buying Instagram from $1 billion, I wrote an article where I made the case for why the next shoe to drop was...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. touted strong sales at its U.S. grocery stores and a big start to holiday layaway sales today, helping to send shares of the world's largest retailer to an all-time high.

Thor Industries Inc. (THO) grew earnings per share by 27.3% in its fiscal fourth quarter, driven by improved markets for recreational vehicles (RV) and buses. This manufacturer of RVs, buses and ambulances achieved a Zac...

Doug Wheat, a certified financial planner with Family Wealth Management, answered reader questions about financial planning for retirement.

No one likes to pay bank fees. And they are even more annoying when the amount and variety of fees can vary depending not only on where you bank, but also on the state where you live.

Stocks fell on Wednesday, a day after the earnings season opened with Alcoa posting a quarterly net loss and Chevron saying profits would fall sharply.

There was a time, before primaries, when each party's platform was really important.  Voters didn't pick a candidate, the party did.  Then voters read what policies the party planned to implement should it control ...

Suspiciously familiar-looking polar bears are the latest anti-sugary soda advocates, and they're starring in their own animated online video.

Undergoing negotiations since January to sell a majority stake in Osklen, the sought-after Brazilian maker of sportswear, Oskar Metsavaht, the label's founder and creative director, has just reached an agreement with ...

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday said its business contacts suggest economic activity is still expanding modestly in most regions though pockets of weakness and strained labor markets remain a problem for some districts.

EADS and BAE Systems have dropped plans to merge after failing to win political support for a $45 billion deal that would have created a European aerospace and defense giant.

(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Today the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency released the evidence it compiled against Lance Armstrong, who was stripped of his seven Tour De France titles in August when he decided to not fight the agency...

A couple in Hong Kong are suing a Boston-area education consultant for the $2 million they say they paid him to get their two sons into top schools leading up to an Ivy League university admission, an example of an "arms...