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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stock and options markets will be closed on Monday, and possibly Tuesday, as regulators, exchanges and brokers worry about the integrity of markets and the safety of employees in the face of Hur...

Advertising on devices like cellphones and tablets require different approaches from advertising online, taking advantage of their ability, for example, to track a consumer’s location.

Retailers, eager to capitalize on the growing confidence of consumers, aren’t shy about starting their holiday advertising early.

Scott Forstall, senior vice president of iPhone Software at Apple, is out. Forstall, who CNBC.com reported was widely believed to be the successor to CEO Tim Cook, will leave Apple next year.

Oliver Kroll is managing partner and director of operations for the Gerber Group, an international bar management company. Flying has lost its luster, he says, and then there is passenger behavior.

While New York’s financial markets close Monday and Tuesday, disaster plans years in the making should mean systems are up and running again soon after the hurricane has passed.

After cutting back service, aircraft and personnel, airlines will have a harder time getting back to normal after Sandy.

Will we continue to over-hunt, over-fish our customers, consumers, and our market -- our prey -- until they're either extinct or just too savvy to fall for our seductive calls? What is our responsibility to the health, h...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Pearson and Germany's Bertelsmann plan to merge their publishers Penguin and Random House, aiming to gain the upper hand in their relationship with Amazon and Apple, the leaders in the ebook ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc said on Monday its head of iPhone software and its head of retail would leave, the biggest shake-up in the technology company's executive ranks since Tim Cook became chief executive la...

Microsoft is incorporating advanced computing technologies into many of its products, allowing users to comb huge amounts of data and get recommendations based on their habits.

I walked into the Times Center sitting near the front wearing my best suit, tie and shirt beaming with pride. I was about to witness the final round of the National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge, a competition for our...

As the government has chosen not to attack high unemployment with a second stimulus, some have speculated that Hurricane Sandy might give the economy a...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several justices on the U.S. Supreme Court voiced concern on Monday about letting U.S. copyright holders block the resale inside the country of products they make elsewhere, in one of the court's b...

WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has awarded $38 million to a whistleblower for information about a tax dodge involving...

What if $2 trillion dollars of corporate, brokerage and fund money began to migrate back to Main Street using the full 7,800+ population of banks instead of hyper-concentrating in under 100 too big to fail institutions?

Although the worst is yet to come for the Northeast, Hurricane Sandy is already devastating low-lying areas and coastal cities. Most dramatically, it is being reported that Atlantic City, N.J., is basically under water. ...

As conditions rapidly deteriorated in Washington, D.C., on Monday due to Hurricane Sandy, there appeared to be little rhyme or reason dictating which businesses stayed...

Here's the key as to why women are great change agents: a change agent needs to help to communicate the excitement, possibilities, and details of the change to others within the organization. And women possess strong com...

(Reuters) - Hurricane Sandy brought wind and rain to the streets of New York City on Monday, but on Wall Street, it also brought a day of eerie, almost unsettling calm.

Reports of an Internet-radio play nearly drown the streaming company’s stock, but Pandora’s still seen as being able to stand up to Apple’s challenge, writes Rex Crum.

Public debt has become the main argument against the welfare state. But the two are barely related.