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Last week, CBS forced CNET to rescind its "Best of CES" award that was originally intended for Dish's Hopper DVR that let you skip commercials. CBS is suing Dish over the gadget, and as a result it blocked its own tech p...

The military has stealth to hide from radar, but planes, boats and even humvees still leave infrared and magnetic signatures. The problem: all the electrical systems hooked up to all that metal. Recently, a team of resea...

"People really underestimate how important hiring decisions are at startups," says Elli Sharef, co-founder of HireArt, a recruiting firm serving San Francisco's rising tech community. "If you're a team of two founders an...

A petition on Change.org is calling on Victoria's Secret (LTD) to create a special line of "Survivor" bras for breast cancer survivors who have undergone mastectomies. Allana Maiden, who launched the petition drive, tell...

McDonald's has launched a new campaign for the Big Mac, one of its flagship products. The Big Mac has been on McD's menu, but it hasn't highlighted the product specifically in years. Business Insider told you first that ...

Guest Post You know that you want to quit your job and that you want to start a startup. You've had this desire for quite sometime now and you really must begin. But you don't.

Bloomberg News' Alex Cuadros & David de Jong have uncovered eight hidden billionaires that no one knew existed. These people have their fortunes in publicly-traded companies and live in Mexico, Chile, Brazil and Spain, a...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Tens of thousands more Marines and their relatives could be eligible for government health care for their illnesses now that a federal...

As we work, we sit more than we do anything else. Excessive sitting, defined as nine hours a day, has been called a lethal activity. So four years ago I switched one meeting from a coffee meeting to a walking-meeting, an...

Let's be honest -- this is around the time of year when the Winter Blues start to set in for those of us sticking it out above the Mason Dixon Line. You might be craving sand and surf on a tropical island, but why not fi...

Hollywood's latest starlet is gazing enigmatically into the camera lens with her huge melting brown eyes, framed with lashes long enough to catch snowflakes. She radiates an air of serenity amid the flashbulbs and satell...

Gosh, those crazy electric cars. They're so different and confusing, eh? We've now come across a new and thus-far unparalleled example of just how far people will go to avoid dealing with the realities of electric cars. ...

Amazon's new app allows songs and albums to be purchased and downloaded directly onto the iPhone -- a development that could put pressure on Apple to lower its prices, writes Quentin Fottrell.Also in today's Personal Fin...

If car manufacturers really want to have something that resembles an app store, they are going to have to put their heads together and play it smart. As with everything else, there is a right way and wrong way of doing i...

WASHINGTON

When President Barack Obama steps up the inaugural platform on Monday, everything will look expertly choreographed. The stage at the Capitol will look brilliant, a huge crowd will watch his recite the oath of office, he'...

George Escobar sells Obama T-shirts on the corner of 12th Street and Independence Avenue, three for $10. In the week leading up to Monday's inauguration, Escobar was hoping business would be as good as it was four years ...

Australian researchers have redefined the relationship between galaxies and their black holes, showing that a widely-accepted method for calculating the mass of smaller black holes was wrong. The breakthrough, made by Sw...

The hidden fees and aggravations of the do-it-yourself move.

Still licking their wounds from the tax battle that featured the first tax rate increases on higher earners in 20 years, Republicans are sure to hold President Obama's feet to the fire in demanding steep budget cuts befo...

Angry about your paycheck shrinking this year because the payroll tax cut expired? Well, this should cheer you right up: Goldman Sachs's CEO got a 75 percent raise this year.