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Military members in combat zones can earn a high rate on their savings through the Department of Defense Savings Deposit Program.

As uncertainty continues to grip the European markets, identifying surefire investment opportunities has become increasingly difficult, if not impossible. However, one analyst argues that high-end European real estate ma...

Buyers are coming back to the housing market in ever greater numbers, as an industry index measuring contracts to purchase existing homes surged 5.2 percent in October from September.

While you are waiting for Congress and President Obama to decide what they are going to do about the fiscal mess, here an idea: Pick up a copy of Taxes in America: What Everyone Needs to Know,  (Oxford University P...

Today I leave for a three-month reporting trip to India. My home base will be the Southern coastal city of Chennai, near the tip of the subcontinent, a metropolis of 4.5 million that is the center of India's auto industr...

Many people today prefer texting to talking on the phone, which can present businesses with a serious challenge. How do you get in touch with customers who won't pick up the damn phone?

Who would have thought that a full-on debate would erupt with such a simple question, "What is open cloud?"

Apparently, Scribblenauts Unlimited now knows everything from urinal cakes to keyboard cat.

A look at the 10 biggest percentage gainers on New York Stock Exchange at the close of trading:

Yes, Ezra Klein and Dylan Matthews have both posted graphs of the day. But we felt we had to add this chart of Syria's total Internet blackout from Akamai, one of the world's leading Internet delivery networks: Read full...

Two former stock brokers at a Connecticut financial services company were charged with criminal insider trading on Thursday over a 2009 acquisition by computer giant IBM Corp.

At VentureBeat’s cloud-focused conference today, we got a real treat: a fascinating fireside chat with two titans of enterprise IT, Lew Tucker and Randy Bias. Tucker is Cisco’s CTO and vice president of clo...

The deal isn't exactly a breakup, but it reflects changing conditions in the market.

It was a choppy day of trading on Wall Street with all the major indices in positive territory by mid afternoon, following the release of mostly better-than-expected economic data this morning.

After six numbers were drawn for the $550 million Powerball jackpot Wednesday, thousands of Americans learned that they didn’t beat the odds; no one did. For the 16th consecutive time, the jackpot remains untouche...

Anyone who watched the newly released movie God Loves Caviar, portraying the life Ioannis Varvakis -- one of Greece’ great benefactors -- would probably have concluded that wealthy Greeks love their country.

Barnes & Noble Inc said the quarterly loss in its Nook division increased as the bookseller increased spending on its e-readers and tablets to keep pace with larger rivals Amazon.com Inc and Apple Inc.

Occupy the drive-thru: Fast-food workers in New York City staged a walkout on Thursday to demand better pay and the right to unionize.

DETROIT (Reuters) - For the first time in nearly two decades, GM's Chevrolet brand will be back in the business of selling rear-wheel-drive sedans in the United States.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jeb Hensarling and Maxine Waters are about as far apart politically as two U.S. lawmakers can get.

A funny thing happened on the way to the tax debate: We started talking about "math," rather than policy. And just because something works on a calculator doesn't mean it will work as law. The White House has been saying...

As most of us spend more time using tablet devices such as an ipad or laptop computers, the risk for developing neck pain and muscle strain in the upper shoulders increases. According to a recent report in the Harvard He...