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Information overload is a huge problem. The Internet gives us access to mountains of information and sifting through all of it can be daunting at times. That's why when we heard about personal assistant app Winston's hug...

Visitors to a special after-hours showing of an exhibition based on the theme of "naked men" were encouraged earlier this week to shed their clothes. "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life", Oscar Wilde wrote...

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-- "When I received my first warning from Google that 'state-sponsored attackers may be attempting to compromise' my Gmail account, I was relieved." -- "Just imagine the future potential loss that would result from the d...

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The former head of a peanut-butter company and a handful of other former employees face criminal charges for fraud in connection with a salmonella outbreak blamed for nine deaths and hundreds of illnesses.

Amnesty International launched a jarring anti-capital punishment campaign that depicts the last meal requests of executed men who were later proved or presumed innocent. One example is Cameron Todd Willingham, who was co...

Wal-Mart posts a rise in fourth-quarter profits, benefiting from a delayed tax rise in the US, but the supermarket giant says sales were slower at the start of the year.

"The vast majority of organizations put their emergency information on paper," Summers says. "This is an opportunity to leverage networking technology for safety."

Earlier today, Vladimir Pekhtin, a senior lawmaker within Russia's ruling United Russia party, announced his resignation. Pekhtin was not only one of the co-founders of United Russia, one of the key drivers of support fo...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has its hedge-fund quants, the University of Southern California has its movie moguls. But if you really want your child to be a billionaire, you might want to send them to Harva...

Office Depot and OfficeMax decided to merge without picking a new CEO for the combined company. Instead, there's going to be a competition. This whole process is really strange. Leadership is almost always decided before...

Shares of nutritional supplement seller Herbalife, the company that hedge fund manager Bill Ackman is shorting, tanked in after-hours trading during a CNBC report. CNBC's Scott Wapner reported that one of Herbalife's 50 ...

U.S. stocks continued a two-day slide Thursday on weak economic data and concern about the Federal Reserve's resolve to keep juicing the economy. The Standard & Poor's 500 index is...

Here's how families can stretch out the life and tax benefits of both their Roth and traditional IRAs.

Verifone (PAY) was downgraded by JP Morgan (JPM) to neutral due to a worse than expected earnings miss.

Bruker (BRKR) was upgraded by Bank of America/Merrill Lynch (BAC) from underperform to neutral with a price target of $19.50 due to improving fundamentals.

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Teleflex (TFX) maintained its quarterly dividend of 34 cents per share. The dividend is payable March 15, 2013 to shareholders of record at the close of business on March 5, 2013.

Everest RE Group Limited (RE) maintained its quarterly dividend of 48 cents per share. The dividend is payable on or before March 20, 2013 to all shareholders of record as of March 6, 2013.

The dollar held on to most of its gains Thursday after the Federal Reserve signaled that it's considering slowing or ending its efforts to support the economy.

Goldman Sachs Chief European Economist Huw Pill and his team are out with a new report on the fiscal situation in the euro zone, and they are very much focused on debt. Specifically, the report takes aim at some of the e...