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Networking events by their very nature are full of people you don't know and thereby can be terrifying. Walking into a room of strangers with only your opening line and maybe one business card as your defense against a s...

Exchange-traded currencies (ETCs) are a great way to gain exposure to foreign currencies, whilst avoiding expensive bank dealing spreads. Paul Amery reports.

Mississippi state lawmaker Jessica Upshaw was found dead in a residence on Sunday with a bullet wound to her head, the Clarion Ledger reports, citing unnamed sources at the state capitol. Upshaw, a 53-year-old Republi...

Jay Leno is still the ratings king of late-night television, but his expected replacement, Jimmy Fallon, has Internet skills and cross-generational appeal.

Sophia Amoruso turned an eBay store selling vintage finds from Goodwill into Nasty Gal, an online fashion retailer with nearly $100 million in annual sales.

(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc has sued a major grocery workers union and others who have protested at its Florida stores, the latest salvo in its legal fight to stop "disruptive" rallies in and around its stores by gro...

"Despicable Me 2" isn't coming out until July, but Universal is already pushing the sequel to its 2010 hit.   After releasing the first plot-revealing full-length trailer for the film last week, the movie launched ...

Zynga is losing a top-level executive next month. The social-gaming developer’s chief information officer will resign her position to take the post of chief executive officer at cloud-storage company Nirvanix, acc...

The trustee unwinding Peregrine Financial Group is seeking to be paid $3.7 million, the maximum allowed under bankruptcy law for his role in returning some money to former customers of the failed broker.

Why that 1099 from your broker should go straight in the shredder.

Just last week, China finally admitted to locking their targeting radar on a Japanese boat. When it initially happened last month, there was much speculation about a possible war breaking out. It's easy to be sc...

A widow whose husband cried about being “trapped” in his body after undergoing a prostatectomy that used Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci robotic system is suing the company.

Calling it "an important step forward," Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) commended her Senate colleagues on Sunday for their recent bipartisan vote to end government subsidies...

(Kitco News) - Gold futures eased Monday on reduced fears about Cyprus imploding after international lenders and the country reached an agreement on a financial bailout package, with some of the selling also said to b...

Maybe Yahoo! had a point about banning telecommuting.  Telecommuters' tendency to shop online while still on the clock could be eating into their budgets –– and, possibly, their work performance, acco...

Higher fuel costs are perennial worries for trucking company leaders, but the concern is much overdone. The most likely trigger for higher diesel costs is stronger economic growth—which is good for truckers.

When you weren't looking, Yahoo's stock soared 50 percent in the last year. In this chart, we mark off the major events since Marissa Mayer was named CEO. The three big reasons for the stock's lift: Mayer brings some exc...

In the story told by the Roman poet Ovid, Pygmalion is a sculptor who falls in love with a statue he has created. George Bernard Shaw borrowed the theme for his play “Pygmalion”—later turned into the m...

Facebook is no longer relying solely on what its users reveal. Instead, it is tapping outside data sources to learn even more about them, and to sell more finely targeted ads.

The record levels of support for gay marriage have been ignited by more Americans than ever saying they know a family member or close friend who is gay, according to a new CNN/ORC poll released Monday. CNN Polling Direct...

T-Mobile is holding a press event in New York Tuesday to go over its new budget-friendly cell phone plans and officially announces its new LTE network.  But there are also reports that T-Mobile will unveil more detail...

The owner of Franklin Street's Lantern restaurant plans to replace a mural that was on the side of her building with outdoor gardens and vine-covered walls. The Chapel Hill mural… Click to Continue »