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Well, it looks like the folks in Washington have done it.  The device called "sequestration" to impose mandatory cross-the-board cuts in Federal defense and non-defense spending is actually going into effect.  That...

Yesterday's Thunder-Clippers game was marred by an incident in the fourth quarter where OKC big man Serge Ibaka appeared to intentionally punch Blake Griffin in the groin. The announcers and the crowd both thought Ibaka ...

Most career problems stem from the fact that we are terrible at picking jobs. We think we are picking a good job and then it turns out to be a bad job. It’s almost impossible to pick a good job on the first try, a...

Among new airline fees are charges to speed through airport screening gates and board early, watch streaming movies, and have checked bags delivered.If you think air carriers have run out of ideas for new fees to charge ...

Mainland China, whose economic resurgence has been one of the world’s most remarkable economic stories of the past three decades, today ranks No. 2 on the year’s Forbes Billionaires List with 122 citizens o...

This is a guest post by Erik Bowitz, senior social media strategist at Resume Companion.

The entire NBA landscape can shift if just one elite player changes teams. Because of that, agents determine the trajectory of the league more than any other team sport. HoopsHype has a great database that tells you whic...

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the iShares PHLX SOX Semiconductor Sector Index Fund (NASD: SOXX) where we have detected an ap...

Wearable computing has officially made its way from the big screen into real life.  Science fiction movies and shows have toyed with the idea of wearable computing, but now it's finally becoming a reality.  Google ...

(Kitco News) - TomaGold Corp. (TSXV: LOT) intersected three high-grade gold intersects at its Monster Lake Project, located near Chibougamau, northern Quebec, which has opened a few doors for the company in 2013.

Experts estimate so-called budget sequestration could cost the country about 700,000 jobs, but Wall Street doesn’t expect the cuts to substantially alter corporate profits or threaten stock markets.

Employees who put company information online with their smartphones create a tricky problem for I.T. departments: how to protect corporate data without hindering employees’ work.

The Shanghai Composite is off 2 percent and is being dragged down by property stocks. The Shanghai Stock Exchange Property Index (SHPROP) has tumbled 8.7 percent. (via @Bill Bishop). China Vanke, a property giant, and Po...

Being a cable network is less of a disadvantage than it used to be, as broadcast networks become just one more click on a seemingly infinite dial.

After a strong run at the Daytona 500, Danica Patrick's encore came up a little short as she wrecked on the 185th lap of the Subway Fresh Fit 500. She was on the lead lap but was in 26th place when her tire blew heading ...

Lawyers for a man accused of a gruesome killing and dubbed the "the Canadian Psycho" will ask a judge to ban the public from his preliminary hearing scheduled to start next week, the defense told AFP on Monday. A court d...

Stocks struggled to find direction on this choppy day of trading as the two sides are no closer to reaching a deal to avoid automatic budget cuts.

Shares of Apple hit their lowest level in more than a year on Monday, continuing a decline hastened by the company's last quarterly earnings report. Click to Continue »

The Dow Jones industrial average logged its highest close of the year Monday after investors shrugged off early jitters about China's latest efforts to cool down its housing market. The… Click to Continue »

Standard Motor Products (SMP) announced that it earned $5.9 million, or 26 cents per share, down 80 percent from $29.3 million, or $1.28 per share, in the most recent fiscal quarter. Excluding items, profit increased to ...

JCPenney has split up its associates into categories based on their performance and abilities, according to sources inside the company. The move has employees worried. Sources told us that on a broadcast to supervisors a...

A California retirement home is defending a nurse who refused to perform CPR on a dying 87-year-old woman because of the facility's "no CPR policy," ABC reports. That nurse called 911 and refused to give CPR to the resid...