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Ad agencies are always on the lookout for new photographers and artists whose work they can borrow, steal or hire. They should check out Kerry Skarbakka, whose photo series "The Struggle To Right Oneself" is one of the m...

Pretty much anyone with a gun and a distaste for giant snakes has been invited to participate in Florida's first "Python Challenge." It's a month-long competition that offers a bounty for capturing and killing Burmese py...

Intrusive mobile device ads, known as madware, are on the rise on smartphones and tablets.

Every time the rhetoric heats up in Washington, corporate decision makers stress out. According to Fidelity's latest business cycle update, when there's a lot of political uncertainty, corporations just don't want to she...

The divisional round of the NFL Playoffs is underway in Denver. The game just started, but it's already Ravens 14, Broncos 14 in the first quarter after a 90-yard Trindon Holliday punt return touchdown, followed by a 59-...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo declares a public health emergency in the state due to the increasing severity of the flu season.

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Treasury Department will not mint a high-value platinum coin to avert the debt ceiling, according to an official statement from the...

Two new books -- "Plan Your Prosperity" and "Diary of a Hedgehog" -- offer ideas to consider long before you invest in any market.

Guest Post Two once-great analog companies, Polaroid and Fujifilm, have struggled with the transition to the digital economy -- but with different results.

Another reminder about why the economics blog Calculated Risk is so indispensable if you want to really understand what's going on in the economy. Bill McBride (the blog's author) has put together a dazzling 10-part seri...

The NFL Network aired a great segment this afternoon about how Peyton Manning rehabilitated the neck injury that caused him to miss the entire 2011 season. The most incredible detail: On March, 3 2012 -- at the very end ...

Stunning news from WaPo's Ezra Klein: The Treasury is ruling out the use of a trillion dollar platinum coin to break the debt ceiling impasse. Klein writes: That's the bottom line of the statement that Anthony Coley, a s...

The Treasury Department will not mint a trillion-dollar platinum coin to get around the debt ceiling. If they did, the Federal Reserve would not accept it. That's the bottom line of the statement that Anthony Coley, a sp...

Shares of PPG Industries are expected to see active trade in Monday's session as the company is slated to release earnings.

General Assembly aims to teach technology skills that the market needs, not just what professors think you ought to know -- and it's expanding its locations worldwide.

For the first time on Friday, Vice President Joe Biden indicated the White House gun violence task force was interested in so-called "smart gun" technology, which would prevent a gun from being used by anyone but the per...

When all other moneymaking ideas fail, you can always try selling your worldly possessions. But even that can run into a wall.

North Carolina State upset in-state rival, and top-ranked Duke this afternoon, so it is not surprising that their fans would be a little excited and storm the court. Well, apparently that included one overzealous Wolfpac...

Touchscreen table can handle 40 simultaneous finger touches.

The Best Buy Company had better-than-expected holiday sales, setting off a gain of $2, or 16.4 percent, in its stock price, to $14.21 a share on Friday.

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras hopes to raise 2.3 billion euros (about $3 billion) from a tax increase on middle- to high-income earners, self-employed professionals and businesses.

President Barack Obama came into office during one of the worst salmonella outbreaks in United States history, in which at least 700 people fell ill...