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The 2013 Major League Baseball championship season officially kicks off tonight with an Opening Night game between the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros at 8:05 p.m. ET.  Professional baseball players, including those ...

With a proliferation of channels competing for a diminished number of total viewers, media companies have looked elsewhere for growth.

Know what this is? It's one of the first mass-produced mini-computers--the PDP 8.  The PDP-8 was made by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1965. It cost $18,000. It was much less powerful and vastly harder to use than ...

It's the most annoying tradition in the tech world. Every April Fools' Day tech companies and blogs spam the Web with pranks, phony reports, and fake product launches.  And every April Fools' Day, people get confused....

The leader of Cyprus' Orthodox Christian church vowed to do all he can so that ordinary people "won't go hungry" amid the country's worst financial crisis in decades. Click to Continue »

Apple's ring-shaped, gleaming "Spaceship Headquarters" will include a world class auditorium and an orchard for engineers to wander. Google's new Bay View campus will feature walkways angled to force accidental… Cl...

E-commerce companies are trying to build premium brands at discount prices by cutting out middlemen and going directly to manufacturers.

Mitch McGary has been one of the breakout stars of the NCAA Tournament. The 20-year-old freshman has averaged 17.5 points and 11.5 rebounds during Michigan's Final Four run. Towards the end of Michigan's blowout over Flo...

America's big cities may get all the splashy buzz, but for savvy travelers, our small towns are our best-kept secrets. In a time when "authentic" is a travel buzzword, these hamlets are attracting visitors with an often ...

The dollar is rising again. Click to Continue »

The newspaper industry might be shrinking in the rest of the world but it expanded Monday in Myanmar when privately run daily newspapers hit newsstands for the first time in… Click to Continue »

Guest Post A Gmail plugin here, a trip to the gym there, and you're on your way to not having a coronary at 35! No promises on the acquisition front, though.

Louisville player Kevin Ware suffered a gruesome leg injury that delayed the Duke-Louisville game for nine minutes today. Ware, a sophomore role player averaging 4.6 points per game jumped to block a shot. When he came d...

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Last week I wrote about my experiences moving to the US, initially just doing three month trips with the visa-waiver program, and then finally getting a visa: Coming to America: The Startup Visa. This week I wanted to be...

Google has gotten into the spirit of April Fools' a bit early with its new "Treasure Map" layer in Google Maps and a video suggesting YouTube will close tomorrow.

Investment in vice paying off handsomely; antistocially conscious

A new website called CoutureSQD lets women rent from stores like Zara and H&M for $25 a month.

The 2014 Buick Regal gets small but important changes to ensure it continually draws younger buyers to the brand.

Well, this might be our first market quote of how much a "Cypriot Euro" is worth. Remember, last week after large depositors in Cyprus were haircutted, and the government instituted capital controls to prevent money from...

An ExxonMobil pipeline rupture near Little Rock, Ark., Friday evening has resulted in a “major oil spill,” according to the Environmental Protection Agency -- and ignited further debate over the transportatio...

Last week, reports indicated the American housing market was still strong and the Standard & Poor’s 500 index closed at a record high. This week could bring more positive news about the domestic economy, with upda...