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Take one look at Best Buy scrambling to hang on to market share and it's easy to see how eCommerce has been crushing brick-and-mortar retail's business for a while now, especially in developed markets. According to a new...

While most fashion and cosmetics companies almost always use waifish models in their campaigns, MAC has gone a completely different route by featuring bodybuilder and fitness model Jelena Abbou in its latest ad. The new ...

Al Qaeda insurgents in Iraq used to wire Improvised Explosive Devices just like in this video -- using 9-volt batteries and stereo wire -- but those would just explode underground. In this video, however, the Chinese arm...

By Ankita Rao When Brett Geranen needed an eye exam he turned to the website you might choose to find cheap Thai food or...

The number of Americans unemployed for 99 weeks or longer has averaged just shy of 2 million for the past two years, but their ranks...

Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday that Texas is making no promises it will roll back any of the deep state spending cuts imposed during past...

Now presenting, the world's worst excuse for not tipping. This week, Redditor nickshambo posted a picture of the note he said a customer left his...

A McDonald's customer got really mad when workers got his order wrong at a restaurant in Wichita, KS, and it eventually led to a standoff with police, KAKE reported. According to KAKE, the man had ordered at the drive-th...

Heroku was alerted to a security vulnerability that let anyone change an account's password and take over the account. The company reacted quickly, pushing out a fix the next day.

RIM's first-year BlackBerry 10 strategy means you'll be seeing not just two BB 10 phones this year, but a half dozen of them.

Starbucks' new $1, reusable cups are selling out. About 28 percent of Americans have either purchased one of the cups or plan to, according to a study by YouGov Omnibus. The majority of those polled also said they though...

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis has resigned, opening another spot in President Obama's Cabinet. Announcing the resignation in a statement on Monday, Obama hailed Solis as "a tireless champion for working families" during "t...

Swedish police have issued arrest warrants for two British men suspected of being behind a multi-million dollar scheme to smuggle garlic into the country. The Local reports that the pair are believed to have been involve...

It seems that almost every major feature on Facebook started as a hackathon project. Hackathons are all-night coding sessions where engineers get amped up on caffeine, brainstorm ideas, and build anything they want. Ther...

I suggest putting a freeze on those debt collector lawsuits until unemployment falls to some more reasonable level -- 6 percent. That would give millions of Americans the breathing space to get back to work -- and then t...

NEW YORK -- Shares of Facebook are pushing above $30 for the first time since July after it sent out invitations to "come and see...

BY KEN THOMAS, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- A White House official says Attorney General Eric Holder and the secretaries of Health and Human Services...

Everyone's making a huge deal out of the news that hedge fund manager Dan Loeb is long Herbalife. (And they should, because it means war with Pershing Square's, Bill Ackman). But in all our excitement over a good knock-d...

The message to Congress is simple: Adapt. Figure it out. Make the tough choices. It's what business owners do every day, and it's what Americans have done for centuries.

Sony unveiled its latest smartphone, the Xperia Z, at CES 2013. We got to spend some time with the the 5-inch Android-powered phone and came away very impressed. The Xperia Z is packed with the latest technology, putting...

Imagine being able to mute your TV by shushing it or pausing a video simply by getting up. If Cube26 has its way, those types of interactions will come to TVs and smartphones in the near future.

In addition to the Hall of Fame snub today of players like Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, and Roger Clemens, several other hotly-debated players have been on the ballot for at least five years and still came up short. For Dale...