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Zaha Hadid's wild architecture became extremely popular in China two years ago after she designed the Guangzhou Opera House in the Guangdong Province. Now her newest building in Beijing, one of 11 being built across the ...

BMO Capital Markets analyst Dan Salmon did the world a favor on New Year's Eve when he published a note to investors that included a diagram of how Facebook's ad exchange, FBX, actually works. FBX is a real-time bidding ...

Musician Joe Sumner created an iPhone app that's making a mark in the music business. CNN's Shanon Cook takes a look.

Is this what sibling rivalry looks like when a few hundred million dollars are thrown into the mix? Days after 28-year-old Formula One heiress Tamara Ecclestone was reported to have listed her London pad for $32 million,...

A water-rich Martian meteorite is unlike any meteorite scientists have ever found from the Red Planet. The meteorite has about ten times more water than other Martian meteorites, according to the study published today, J...

(Reuters) - Starbucks Corp said it will set up its first outlet in Vietnam early next month as the U.S. chain continues to expand in fast-growing Asian markets.

An advertising watchdog group says it told the distributor of 5-Hour Energy years ago that a claim that the drink did not cause a letdown once the effects wore off was unfounded.

For anyone still suffering from election fatigue, here's some good news: In terms of momentous races, 2013 is no 2012. But the paucity of marquee contests doesn't mean there won't be any drama at the ballot box this year...

There are plenty of pampered and privileged kids out there. But Gina Rio, a 23-year-old from London who gets a monthly allowance of £10,000 ($16,300) from her mother and owns 300 pairs of shoes, has to be the most spoil...

(Reuters) - Coinstar Inc , the operator of Redbox video rental kiosks, said its chief executive Paul Davis will retire and current finance head Scott Di Valerio will replace him.

More than 2.5 million people book doctor appointments online each month with ZocDoc. But with many folks sick or following through New York's resolutions, yesterday was the busiest day ever in the hot startup's five-year...

Starbucks' iconic white cup is a great marketing tool in customers' hands, but not so great when it's taking up space in a landfill.

The latest tax legislation allows more flexibility to convert traditional 401(k)'s to Roth 401(k)'s.

More than 85,000 people are asking Walmart to stop selling assault weapons in the wake of the Connecticut shooting that killed 26 people last month....

This is really thrilling. An arcane idea that started on finance blogs in the summer of 2011-- that Tim Geithner should mint a trillion dollar platinum coin to avert the debt ceiling -- is now seriously taking off. The p...

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt's trip to North Korea came as a surprise to many yesterday. It seems likely that the news would have remained secret without the AP's North Korea correspondent Jean H. Lee's scoop. Surprise i...

The much-delayed Pebble E-Ink smartwatch is almost here.

Facebook is eliminating the awkward construction of some of your news feed stories with this feature, a developer-cum-grammarian's dream.

The minutes from the December FOMC meeting, released this afternoon, contained an interesting twist. Even though the Fed announced a particularly dovish policy shift with the introduction of the "Evans rule" at the concl...

BuzzFeed, a media company that makes viral content, announced a $19.3 million fundraise this morning. Last January, it announced a $15.5 million round, and it has raised $46.3 million to date. Sources familiar with the c...

With the global economic climate expected to improve, Gartner predicts that the "major retardants to IT growth will lift."

The start of a new year is a good time to evaluate your business and look for opportunities you might be missing or things that aren't working as well as you'd hoped. Bill McBean, a serial entrepreneur and author of "Fac...