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Twitter and Square co-founder Jack Dorsey tweeted a screenshot of his iPhone home screen over the weekend. And it's kind of boring.  Aside from some news apps, the only third-party apps he has are his own: Twitter and...

If you thought Samsung's Galaxy Note was absurdly large, things are only going to get worse in 2013. This weekend, a Huawei executive showed off the company's next phone, a massive Android device with a 6.1-inch display....

Protests continue to sweep across India after the gang rape of a 23-year old woman on a bus in Delhi on December 16.  The extreme brutality of the assault, in which six men raped the victim, beat her with a metal rod ...

Now that 2012 is nearly over, the National Law Journal has rounded up the best legal quotes of the year. One of the wittiest came from the Ninth Circuit in its colorful opinion overturning California's ban on gay marriag...

Bryan A. Garner, a lawyer and writer, and Justice Antonin Scalia are, on the surface, on odd pair of friends. Garner is pro-choice and supports same-sex marriage, while Scalia is a conservative Catholic whose comments ab...

There's nothing mysterious about the world's two most famous burgers. Burger King's Whopper, invented in 1957, is a quarter-pound flame-broiled burger plus fixings. McDonald's Big Mac, invented in 1967, is two 1.1-ounce ...

Many businesses are using gamification to try to get people hooked on their products and services — and it is working, thanks to smartphones and the Internet.

Now that Facebook, Zynga and Groupon have fizzled in their first year on the stock market, hype over hot technology trends has faded, and that means still-private Web startups must deal with the downside.

Santa Claus has starred in many ad campaigns — and some of them would move him onto the naughty list. While St. Nick is most famous for Coca-Cola commercials, advertisers have also put his face in ads with guns, b...

Owners of some of the District’s parking garages are turning to smartphone apps to attract the increasing number of motorists looking to park at night or on weekends, times when their facilities once sat vacant in...

Brass door knobs, handles and handrails should be brought back into common use in public places to help combat superbugs, according to scientists. Researchers have discovered that copper and alloys made from the metal, i...

Nearly two months after Hurricane Sandy, the devasted community of Rockaway Beach, N.Y. is still reeling. Pieces of the boardwalk are littered across the beach, homes need to be cleaned in full hazmat gear, and insurance...

The job cuts come two years after the law passed as industry hopes to get pressure on Obama administration as it writes the regulations for the law. Click to Continue »

Perhaps the oddest of the conservative rationalizations for refusing any kind of budget compromise is the insistence that budget deals are pointless -- and maybe even counterproductive -- because Democrats rig them such ...

FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors. Advisors Must Warn Clients Of The Risks Of Overspending During The Holidays (The Wall Street Journ...

Now that we've reached the end of 2012, it's time to sit back and reflect on all the things that let us down this year. That's totally healthy, right?

Wine columnist gives in to family pressure to join the warehouse clubs and finds the rumors true: There are great wines at attractive prices on offer. But they’re sometimes there by quirk of fate — and they...

Goodbye, grinch: POP is back.

It's Christmas Eve. That means that all over the world families are gathering together around dinner tables to celebrate. But here in New York, we have our own tradition: eating at a Chinese restaurant.  In the belove...

The National Museum of Mathematics opened up December 15th in Midtown, and we had to check it out.  It's two stories packed with hi-tech computers and mathematical experiments that make this museum perfect for anyone ...

HP plans to lay off a bunch of Autonomy employees, according to several news reports. Up to 200 Autonomy employees are bracing themselves for a pink slip, writes Jon Rees at the U.K. publication, the Daily Mail. The actu...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With only a week left before a deadline for the United States to go over a "fiscal cliff," lawmakers played a waiting game on Monday in the hope that someone will produce a plan to avoid harsh budg...