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While Charlie Brown and his creator, Charles Schulz, share a first name, the character was actually named after one of Schulz’s art school friends, not after himself. Despite this, the big-headed character shares ...

The former CEO of Autonomy slammed Hewlett-Packard's board of directors Tuesday in an open letter for accusing his company of "serious financial impropriety.""On 20 November Hewlett-Packard (HP) issued a statement accusi...

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters shares this afternoon gained 25% after the embattled specialty-coffee company provided a surprisingly upbeat snapshot of the business that a new chief executive will soon helm.

When the Venezuelan Antonorsi brothers opened a chocolate boutique in Encinitas, California, in 2002, they lavished attention on tiny truffles, not large distribution networks. But in the decade since, Chuao (pronounced ...

What could be more exciting for a small business than knowing your product is in the hands of delighted customers around the globe? At the same time, if you have no idea how to crack the exporting nut, few prospects coul...

I find offensive the primitive accusations that Warren Buffett is a hypocrite for pressing the nation's wealthy to pay higher taxes in order to restore our finances to a stable position. He and his company, Berkshire Hat...

These Forbes 400 members want to pay more taxes.

Could Republicans shut the Senate down if they wanted to? All of the sudden, that's not such an idle question. As we'vebeen noting, Democrats in the Senate are proposing to tweak the chamber's filibuster rules when the 1...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury on Tuesday said China's currency remained undervalued but stopped short of labeling the world's second-biggest economy a currency manipulator.

Japan’s legacy television brands continue to struggle against competitors, and this means a fuzzy picture for American shoppers trying to decide if and when to buy a TV.

Tax uncertainty over estate and gift tax exemptions fueling surge

In a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) Arbitration Statement of Claim filed in March 2010, Claimant Morgan Stanley Smith Barney asserted Count I: unfair competition/raiding Count II: aiding an...

In today's pseudoscience ridiculousness, a female geneticist and her fellow researchers claim to have sequenced the genome of Bigfoot. Yes, Sasquach. The research isn't published or peer reviewed yet (what a crazy random...

E-commerce giant is seeing stronger demand for its Kindle Fire tablets, leading analysts to raise their forecast. Google, Microsoft tablets aren’t faring as well, while Apple’s iPad remains the strong marke...

Students of Modern Portfolio Theory are encouraged to take more risk in exchange for higher returns, but good students know there are exceptions to every rule. Low-risk stocks have substantially outperformed their high-r...

The teacher cheating ring that operated in Memphis for 15 years shines a light on the murky world of teacher licensing, experts say. Federal prosecutors...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A gauge of planned U.S. business spending increased in October by the most in five months, raising cautious optimism that the sharp cutbacks in capital investment during the summer are abating.

Amarin (AMRN) was initiated at Citigroup (C) with a buy rating and a $20 price target, as the company will benefit from cardiovascular care changes.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A group of retailers on Tuesday appealed a court order preliminarily approving a $7.2 billion settlement between Visa Inc, Mastercard Inc and merchants over credit card fees, saying it violated their...

Politics is an ugly thing.  With ongoing negotiations surrounding the fiscal cliff in Washington, the top Democrat in the Senate, Harry Reid, sparked a risk-asset sell-off on Tuesday after noting ?little progress? had...

Autonomy founder Michael Lynch and HP, which acquired the company last year, are trading public statements over alleged financial improprieties at Autonomy that led HP to write off $8.8 billion recently.

Multifamily housing has been a runaway success ever since the housing market crashed in the U.S. as millions lost money on their home investments and millions more were scared out of buying. Now that a true recovery is u...