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More buildings are set to rise in Playa Vista, one of the largest undeveloped areas left in Los Angeles, as developers turn their focus from the exurbs to the “infill.”

Sabina Kaylan, European head of research at CBRE Investors, tells CNBC why there are new opportunities to invest in northern European real estate.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices Inc plans to sell and lease back its campus in Austin, Texas, to raise cash and fund its chipmaking business as it diversifies beyond the struggling PC industry into new m...

LONDON (Reuters) - A small British company with a dream of building a re-usable space plane has won an important endorsement from the European Space Agency (ESA) after completing key tests on its novel engine technology.

Optimism over a possible deal to avoid the fiscal cliff gave the markets a bit of a boost today, following remarks by House Speaker John Boehner and President Barack Obama who said he hopes to reach a deal before Christm...

Your co-workers, clients and business partners are constantly telling you exactly what they think and feel - and it often has nothing at all to do with the words they speak.  Body language tends to reveal underlying m...

Startups drive the U.S. economy. Virtually all net job growth comes from startups, while existing firms are actually net job destroyers.

This week my colleague Ken Perlman expands on the commonly overlooked risks inherent in a lack of executive alignment. He explains why alignment is essential, and how he's witnessed executives fail to see the value in it...

Lottery winners have been known to lose their instant fortunes, but blowing this Wednesday’s $500 million Powerball prize will take some serious shopping. If someone...

With Intel (INTC) CEO Paul Otellini set to retire in May, one outcome remains undisputed: A failure in fulfilling the chip maker’s long-sought objective of gaining meaningful market share in mobile devices will no...

Wall Street, Washington and individuals have achieved alignment.  Unfortunately, that alignment is stupid, careless and destructive.  The alignment I am talking about is a severe case of "short-term-itis."  Our ...

There are cameras everywhere. They're like cockroaches; for every one you actually notice, there are hundreds more that you don't. (Though they're not scurrying around in the walls, yet.) Given their ubiquity it's rare t...

This week, Microsoft announced that it sold a truly bananas 40 million licenses of Windows 8 in the new operating system's first month of availability....

The latest addition to our event lineup at CloudBeat 2012 is CloudOn, a provider of an app for editing and collaborating on Microsoft Office documents from tablets and smartphones.

Healthcare needs to realize that how you charge tells your customers what's valuable.

International Business Machines (IBM) is the company Hewlett Packard (HPQ) secretly wants to be, one where high-margin service and software businesses support huge but slow-growing (at best) hardware divisions. But IBM g...

Twas the night before mid-terms, and all through the quad, Not a coed was stirring in old Ha’vard Ya’d. Modems and networking cables were tucked away with some care, In the hopes that a real live girl might...

NEW YORK -- Stocks gained on signs that lawmakers are edging toward a deal that would help the U.S. avoid the "fiscal cliff." Indexes shrugged...

Over the last few months I have given myself a self-diagnosis of A.D.D.  While I’m not sure that I meet the criteria to make me a hardcore case of Attention Deficit Disorder, I certainly have been struggl...

This article is by David Hoo and Michael von Gonten, principal consultants at research firm Effective Marketing Management.

For retailers, Christmas time is when the people come roaring in and the cash registers ring. That’s the good part. The bad part: as more goods are moving, more get stolen.

As a lame-duck Congress once again faces an impending deadline for dealing with expiring tax cuts, TPC has released a new Tax Calculator to compare potential outcomes. We obviously don’t know what the outcome of n...