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HONG KONG (AP) -- Asian stock markets mostly held steady on Thursday but Japanese stocks slid as investors took profits following a huge rally the day before. Japan's Nikkei 225 fell 0.8 percent to 11,374.26 as investors...

Just last week we posted the top websites in the US, but now it's time to take a look at the whole world. Google claimed the number one spot in the US, but on a global scale, no one is bigger than Facebook. The global li...

This can't be comforting for Apple. Marco Rubio is the Republican Party's hottest politician. He's on the cover of Time Magazine as "The Republican Savior." He will deliver the response to President Barack Obama's State ...

On Wednesday, we covered one student's project to build a "drone-proof" city. Asher J. Kohn describes passive defense techniques that possibly could neutralize the most effective method for assassinating anybody: targete...

The best architects push boundaries of design to create beautiful and functional buildings. Right now our friends at ArchDaily are identifying the best new buildings from around the world. After asking for nominations fr...

When done correctly, a brand extension can be a huge hit, with the only complaint among consumers amounting to Why didn't they do that sooner? Sometimes, though, the launch of a new product featuring a well-known brand i...

THE United States Postal Service has made a perfectly sensible decision. In light of the move by most Americans to electronic mail and online bill pay, it will no longer deliver the post on Saturdays. The volume of mail ...

An installment of 'Making Room for Baby: A Series About Becoming a Mother When You're Already an Entrepreneur"

"This is a huge simplification to how advertisers manage and track mobile advertising campaigns," Larry Kim, CEO of search marketing firm WordStream, told me today.

Conservative pundit Dick Morris defended himself on "Piers Morgan Tonight," one day after news emerged of his ouster at Fox News. Morris said he met with Fox News president Roger Ailes last week, when the decision was ma...

Four Amazon executives are no longer on the job. The departed used to appear on Amazon's list of top corporate officers, but they've recently gone missing, AllThingsD's Tricia Duryee noticed, in a neat bit of sleuthing t...

In the last few years there has been a huge increase in the number of young Tibetans who, protesting Chinese rule, have set themselves on fire. By last count there were almost 100 acts of self-immolation since 2009. At t...

Guest Post You just invested in a promising startup, e-Widgets. The future looks bright. Suddenly, out of nowhere, e-Widgets gets a certified letter in the mail. The letter claims that the company's flagship software is ...

In case you haven't heard, a huge winter storm in headed for New York City and the rest of New England. Current estimates say up to 14 inches of snow could blanket the snow, along with strong winds. The National Weather ...

What are those little nuggets of info that you wished you could have known before you went in -- the ones your recruiter forget to mention? What advice would you give your younger self, if you could go back and tell them...

In 1988, Michael Douglas won an Oscar for playing Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's "Wall Street." On Wednesday, Douglas returned to the New York Stock Exchange to ring the closing bell and deliver a speech on behalf of The...

Charter Communications says it is buying cable company Optimum West from CableVision Systems Corp. for about $1.63 billion in cash.

Crowdfunding-for-causes platform Rally.org expands into Europe and opens a startup incubator in its Berlin office.

Move is welcomed but iShares, Vanguard missing from new lineup.

Americans stepped up borrowing in December to buy cars and attend school. But they cut back sharply on credit card use, continuing a trend that could hold back growth this year.

Stocks slumped on Wall Street Thursday, and the rally which has pushed indexes close to record levels stalled.

Comments about the euro from European Central Bank president Mario Draghi pushed the currency sharply lower against the dollar Thursday.