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Google recently released a very cute ad for its mobile search app. It shows a mom rushing to get her family ready in the morning when she discovers it's "Dress Like a President Day" at her daughter's school. Her daughter...

President Barack Obama had a little fun today on Twitter despite spending most of his time talking about serious topics such as the looming fiscal cliff and middle-class tax cuts.

Whether referred to as electronic medical records, electronic health records, or electronic patient records, there is no doubting the tremendous potential benefits that the digitization of medical data holds for the heal...

So what will it be, Novocaine or Viagra?

Stocks traded mostly flat today over lingering worries over the fiscal cliff.

Every analyst covering Big 5 Sporting Goods Corp. (BGFV - Analyst Report) has raised earnings estimates in the past month, following back-to-back quarters with positive surprises for this sporting goods retailer. Shares ...

Stocks finished slightly lower in a quiet session on Tuesday as the back-and-forth wrangling over the "fiscal cliff" gave investors little reason to act. 

CoreLogic says U.S. home prices are up 6.3 percent in October from a year ago. Discussing the rebound in housing, with Dolly Lenz, Prudential Douglas Elliman vice chairman; and CNBC's Robert Frank and Diana Olick.

Investors are tuning out of Pandora shares this afternoon following weaker-than-expected January quarter guidance this afternoon for the Internet radio company's fiscal third quarter ended October 31.

By not opposing the corporate cultivation of untrammeled greed among Americans, the churches have left the door open to the triumph of America's new religion -- not liberal secularism, but shopping.

Like it or not, McDonald's is a part of daily life for people across the globe. So much, in fact, that the Australian arm of...

Apple’s fourth-quarter earnings results disappointed plenty of people on Wall Street Oct. 25, but perhaps none more than an institutional sales trader at Rochdale Securities, who made a billion-dollar bet on the s...

Today, I was one of four people speaking on Forum with Michael Krasny, on KQED (Northern California Public Radio; listen here). The big news and the show's focus is that Aspergers (and the less-mentioned, PDD-NOS [per...

On Tuesday, NAPFA officially embraced the CFP certification, a move that lauded by many in the advice industry. But critics say the CFP Board -- and it's designation -- are not rigorous enough.

(Reuters) - American Airlines passenger service agents, the only major employee group at the carrier not unionized, began voting Tuesday on whether to be represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union.

Any manager remotely associated with the demise of the nation's largest bank might seem an unlikely choice to head the SEC. Yet Sallie Krawcheck, the woman who served as CFO of Citigroup in the run-up to the 2008 financi...

From EarthTechling's Pete Danko: The long, complex process of developing wind power off the U.S. Atlantic coast took another lurch forward late last week when...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge ended a two-year-old case against Barclays involving its dealings with sanctioned countries, closing one investigative chapter against the bank even as it faces multiple continuing ...

Despite improving pay and the critical role primary care physicians will play in the future of health care in the U.S., there remains less interest by doctors-in-training in general medicine than specialty disciplines.

A new poll from Public Policy Polling found that an impressive 39 percent of Americans have an opinion about the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction plan. Before you start celebrating the new, sweeping reach of the 2010 com...

Anyone who's visited The Woodlands recently has heard the buzz about the big new neighbor moving in. ExxonMobil acquired 385 acres of undeveloped forest just south of The Woodlands a few years ago, and now is busily erec...

The oil giant is consolidating operations north of Houston