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Online commerce continues to gain share from physical store sales.

This is the fifth article in the CIO-plus series, covering CIOs whose roles have been augmented due to the good work they did first and

Zindigo collects $4 million for its social commerce platform that lets users open boutiques on Facebook and keep 40% of the profits.

Guest post written by Stephen Forte

Addressing the grieving community of Newtown, Conn., Sunday night, President Barack Obama promised to take action to prevent shooting massacres like the one that killed 26 people — mostly children — at Sand...

Interesting night for Apple! First, Citi cuts the stock to neutral, citing "good not great" iPhone 5 demand. Then, Apple says it sold 2 million iPhone 5s in China this weekend, a record for an opening weekend in China. T...

A group of golden retrievers were sent from a Lutheran organization in Illinois to Newtown, Conn., where they will comfort the survivors and others affected by the recent massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The gro...

Marilyn Monroe once quipped: “I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.” Like so m...

In keeping with holiday tradition, hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones has put up another elaborate Christmas lights display at his Belle Haven estate in Greenwich, Connecticut. The spectacular light show features th...

A coded message from the Second World War found tied to the remains of a carrier pigeon in a chimney contains details of German tank movements sent by a British soldier, a team of Canadian researchers believe. The letter...

Stocks were strong all day on hopes for a deal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff. President Obama met with top Republican John Boehner today. Boehner is reportedly willing to accept tax hikes on the very wealthy in a c...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — This used to be a land proud of its oil barons. Now the energy industry that has brought wealth and...

Energy stocks gain, riding a wave of renewed optimism that a budget deal in Washington is within reach. Chevron has offered to pay $149 million to settle two civil lawsuits in Brazil related to an oil spill there in late...

Over the last dozen years, I have studied failure and leader's career ending mistakes and shared my list of the "worst" CEOs of the year.

I've been told that I explain technical things well to non-technical audiences. I learned long ago that communication skills were as -- if not more -- important than intelligence, and it turns out that I'm not the only o...

Apple says iPhone 5 sales in China top 2 million in first weekend, but Citigroup analyst cuts rating to neutral; Akamai, Compuware all gain investors’ attention.

Artists from around the world come together on See.me to create and share portfolios, find opportunities, and gain exposure.

A Starbucks Twitter campaign just went embarrassingly wrong. The coffee giant recently asked customers to tweet out some holiday cheer, using the hashtag "#SpreadTheCheer." What...

Some agreements require written contracts to protect the parties involved.  Other agreements are so basic to our nature that they are taken for granted, considered something that “everybody knows.”

The best ways to buy gold.

A few months ago, Steve Denning published a post that included this graphic. It made me think of Warren Bennis and his classic, On Becoming a Leader.

Despite all the risks, it paid to stay invested in 2012. And 2013 will be much the same, says Bengt Saelensminde. With that in mind, he picks his favourite stock for the year ahead.