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Most NFL coaches will tell you that the two most important things in the regular season are to clinch a playoff spot and to play well heading into the postseason. And no two teams are playing better than the Seattle Seah...

Stocks added to losses in the final hour of trading to close sharply lower Friday, with the Dow logging its worst weekly drop in six weeks.

NBC's Kelly O'Donnell tweets a photo of the huddle of Republican Senators around Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, right after McConnell returned to the Senate floor following today's fiscal-cliff meeting at the White Hou...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge granted preliminary approval on Friday to Toyota Motor Corp's $1.1 billion settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought by consumers who lost value on their cars due to sudden, unin...

Question from an entrepreneur in his 30's: I have found that being a CEO is a  lonely job. Do you have someone you ask for advice? Have you ever received really beneficial advice?  If so, from whom? Thank you for y...

Here’s a knee-slapper to kick off your weekend: Fujitsu is marketing a new line of smartphones for the elderly. Snark aside, some of the features might be just what the 65-and-better market needs — noise ca...

Major League Baseball will introduce new batting practice caps next spring, and Paul Lukas of Uni-Watch.com has given us a first look at the new designs. Many of the caps include the use of logos, a nice divergence from ...

A number of large public company CEOs have come under fire in the past year because of the extremely poor financial results of the public...

It's the last Friday afternoon in 2012, and you're still at work for some reason. That's sad. Be happier and watch this, the best bloopers from TV news in 2012: Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook. Join the convers...

As a business leader, to succeed, it's important to think of change management as an ongoing, not occasional, activity that should be ingrained in any enterprise from day one.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fisker Automotive has sued XL Group Plc after being denied insurance coverage over flooding from Superstorm Sandy that destroyed 338 of its Karma plug-in hybrids, worth about $33 million, at a Port N...

Stocks tanked today, tumbling into the 4:00 PM ET close. The S&P 500 fell 1.1 percent, or 15 points to 1,402. However, the futures market is open and stock futures are tanking.  Here's a look at S&P futures, which are...

In the Disney film "Wall-E," a colony of humans becomes an obese population after hundreds of years locked inside a spaceship. A lack of activity and an abundance of food left the starship denizens with little desire to ...

Kanye West's rep announced earlier this year that the rapper won't be returning to Paris Fashion Week.  Click here to see the worst things the critics had to say about him > Fashion is a brutal world, and while West s...

Earlier this month, the new board of the New York Racing Association held its first meeting. Last spring, NYRA’s president and CEO was removed following the discovery that the Association was charging a higher tak...

Apple stock got hit again today, falling 1% to $509. That's the lowest close since the stock began its recent slide in September. Apple is now down 27% from its peak. Apple's market value has now lost about $175 billion....

(Reuters) - Investors fearing a stock market plunge if the U.S. tumbles off the "fiscal cliff" next week may want to relax.

Like yesterday, markets seemed to move on every fiscal cliff headline. First the scoreboard: Dow: 13,008, -88.2, -0.6 percentS&P 500: 1,409, -8.3, -0.5 percentNASDAQ: 2,976, -9.5, -0.3 percent And now the top stories: St...

The "NBA on TNT" studio show with Shaquille O'Neal, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, and Ernie Johnson has evolved into the most entertaining studio show in sports. Even Shaq, who took a little while to find his voice, has ...

This post originally appeared at Oyster.com. The way we travel is always changing, and 2012 provided ample proof of that. To help you prep for your 2013 vacay, Oyster honed in on the top trends currently rocking the trav...

While the long-term future may be 3-D printing, and it's sexy to watch someone print a prototype kidney at TED, there's something wildly exciting about connecting folk to factories.

A mysterious source of itchiness has been found. Certain nerve cells are specialized to detect itchy sensations, and those receptors don't detect painful sensations, according to a new study. The finding, published Dec. ...