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Europe's economy continues to be a mess. The latest purchasing managers index (PMI) numbers continue to show contraction at an accelerating rate. The eurozone composite PMI fell to 46.5 in March, down from 47.9 a month a...

Facebook announced its long-rumored plans for a "Facebook phone" today. Here are the basics: Facebook Home, essentially a very deeply integrated Android app that overlays the phone's entire interface. Facebook Home inclu...

The big Wall Street banks are among the last Twitterless bastions of the American workplace. But even their high walls are crumbling, thanks to a new Bloomberg terminal product -- and perhaps a recent SEC decision on Net...

The 2013 New York International Auto Show is now open to the public, and some of the best new cars on display are luxury sedans. Among them are two new offerings from Mercedes-Benz: The 2014 CLA-Class debuted at the Detr...

A key mission in a fight against North Korea would be neutralizing their nuclear stockpile. This could be done by nuking the nukes -- which as you might guess is pretty politic all unlikely -- or through subtler measures...

This means almost nothing. But, what the heck, we're going to toss it out there any way. According to an online survey of consumers from Retrevo, people didn't want a Facebook phone, or a Facebook phone service. Luckily ...

With its new "Home" on Android gadgets, Facebook aims make its social network the hub of people's mobile experiences. The question, now, is whether people want all their Facebook content greeting them every time they loo...

The 4 Stages Of A Bubble (The Geography Of Transport Systems via Barry Ritholtz) "Bubbles (financial manias) unfold in several stages," writes Jean-Paul Rodrigue of Hofstra University. But they go through four distinct s...

Halleloo! Drag queen Shangela made an appearance in today's Facebook Home launch. But this isn't Facebook's foray into LGBT-friendly waters.

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Banks would be required to go through formal mediation with a homeowner before beginning a foreclosure under the terms of a bill pending in the N.C. Senate.

(Reuters) - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said on Thursday that broad federal spending cuts through sequestration should not be a drag on overall economic growth, but will have different effects among the country's ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. chairman Ray Lane is stepping down. The announcement Thursday comes two weeks after a near ousting by shareholders. Here are some biographical details on Lane.

John Paulson's hedge funds are off to a strong start this year, according to an investor letter, after two years in which some of his funds were among the worst-performing.

This week, Diet Pepsi confirmed what consumers have suspected for a while -- the brand is for only half the population: women. "It's targeted at females who love home design," Amy Spiridakis, Diet Pepsi's director of mar...

Movie and TV cliches we don't blink at.

The board gave auto dealer Norman Braman the go-ahead to build a nearly 100,000-square-foot showroom and parking garage on the site of his Braman Motors operation on Biscayne Boulevard.

George Osborne, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, presided over some very unpopular budget cuts this week. Amongst these cuts were cuts for benefits to the disabled. Tomorrow, the front cover of the (left wing) Daily M...

Guest Post The lessons from online games and virtual communities are taking over. Here's how they can help your company.

Hewlett-Packard chairman Ray Lane will soon leave his post after shareholders lost confidence in him.

Facebook's new approach to Android is called Home--and it takes on rival Google in the key battle for consumers' mobile usage.

How has Facebook changed since 2004? Here's a look at some of the site's most notable redesigns and features.