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Business Day Live: Prosecutors using tapes to build criminal case over JPMorgan loss. | Privatizing Greece’s Port of Piraeus. | E-mails suggest collusion between private equity giants.

If you are not sure what to make of the many claims beauty products tout for the "new and improved" you, you are not alone. A trip to the drugstore beauty aisle or department store makeup counter is enough to make one's ...

There's a good case for rethinking the way we supply and charge for electricity, but the government's take on smart meters is a recipe for disaster Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make smart. "Smart" is a...

Consumers now expect nearly every brand to have its own app, and small businesses feel pressured to create and publish them.

His marriage to Angelina Jolie only lasted three years, but Billy Bob Thornton lasted much longer with the home he shared with his former wife.

By Bob Vila

I admit it:  I used to be the prototypical lean entrepreneur. We paid ourselves meager salaries and were generally scrappy. Our $750K seed round was raised without any fanfare and we grew NewsCred to over 15 people wi...

Scion of banking family is understood to believe that Bakrie family's proposals are attempt to circumvent takeover rules London financier Nat Rothschild is preparing to increase tensions with Indonesia's powerful and con...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Roger Agnelli, who was forced out as chief executive of Brazil's Vale in May 2011, may have been lucky to leave the world's second-largest mining company when he did.

Azerbaijan president threatens 'serious measures' against oil giant saying his nation has missed out on £5bn of revenues Azerbaijan has accused BP of making "false promises" on oil output and said the state had missed...

A surprise bidder for the snacks division of United Biscuits - which makes Hula Hoops and Skips - emerges.

The FSA chairman can deflect two of the criticisms levelled at him but there is no escaping the fact he got it wrong on the euro Another day, another pitch from Adair Turner to be the next governor of the Bank of England...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Republican Senate challenger Todd Akin launched a TV ad Thursday claiming the family of Democratic Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill "pocketed $40 million...

A proposal to simplify airspace over Europe is being considered in a move which the EU believes could cut costs and reduce delays for passengers.

The FBI is reviewing taped phone conversations to build criminal cases related to the multibillion-dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase revealed earlier this year.

NEW YORK, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Women seeking the best place to work and raise children in the United States may want to head to...

Larry Summers has joined the growing list of people saying that Mitt Romney's tax plan just does not work. "It’s easy to say that 'My...

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court overturned a pretrial sales ban against Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's Galaxy Nexus smartphone, dealing a setback to Apple Inc in its battle against Google Inc's in...

Given past controversies involving urinals in the shape of lipsticked, arguably female mouths, a restaurant in Sydney shouldn't have been surprised when its bathroom fixtures...

Despite being one of the most respected constituencies in the country, small businesses are a group that many people understand little about -- the very smallest ones, especially. Micro businesses are vital contributors ...

NEW YORK -- "Now is the moment when we can do something," Mitt Romney says in the TV ad, "And with your help, we will...