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Until March of this year, Scott Sassa was one of the most influential media executives in the U.S. As president of entertainment and syndication at Hearst (it owns Cosmopolitan, among other titles), he cut deals with ESP...

New research might help explain why some people have trouble getting off the couch. Experiments on rats suggest there could be a genetic predisposition to laziness. A group of scientists put rats in cages with running wh...

Seventeen-year Cisco veteran John McCool is leaving, the company confirmed to Bloomberg's Peter Burrows. He will be replaced by Tom Wilburn. McCool was the CTO and senior VP of the Global Enterprise Segment and the "Bord...

New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority has been working for years on the East Side Access project, its plan to connect the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Terminal and ease congestion in crowded Penn Station. P...

With a big commercial-property sale, a Colorado Springs, Colo., office portfolio is testing investor concerns over federal spending cuts.

In a surprising move today, Boxee has rebranded its flagship set-top box from Boxee TV to simply "Cloud DVR."

Simon Dawlat had just landed in Brazil, bleary eyed from an overnight flight, when he looked at his phone and saw more than 75 missed calls and a stream of unread text messages. His initial thought was that a member of h...

The medical profession is joining the move into the cloud, raising complex questions about business opportunities, Big Data and privacy.

- "One man's pet is another mans delicious stew." - "Area reporter hoping you can confirm POLITICO report." - "I never pay any attention to anyone without a beard, so I couldn't really tell you how many beardless fans we...

This is a guest post by Frank Faeth, an executive coach with Faeth Coaching in Bronxville, N.Y. who specializes in coaching abrasive leaders.

This chart comes from Business Insider Intelligence, a new research and and analysis service focused on the mobile and Internet industries. Sign up for a free trial here. Video consumption on mobile phones has grown fast...

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Margaret Thatcher was known as the woman who, between 1979 to 1990, brought austerity and -- at least for part of her tenure -- economic growth to a stagflation-riddled Britain. She's also known as a heedless free-market...

FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors. This Bull Market Doesn't' Need Earnings Growth Or Fed Easing (Barron's) Wells Capital's Jim Paulse...

The cash payments promised to mortgage borrowers who may have been wronged by their banks will start going out this week - but most checks will be a good bit...

Mark Kelly, husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), is shown shooting a Glock 9mm handgun at planting pots and water bottles for target practice...

iPhone users open 17.5 percent of their commercial mail, while Android users open 8.93 percent, and BlackBerry owners open only .24 percent.

Popular travel advice and booking site TripAdvisor has acquired luxury travel site Jetsetter from Gilt Groupe for an undisclosed sum.

When Gerald "Jerry" Conti decided to retire from his teaching career after 27 years at Westhill High School in New York, he went out with...

VentureBeat caught up with blogger and social media analyst Brian Solis a few weeks after the release of his latest book.

MATERIAL WORLD: A broad rally in commodities prices pushed the stocks of materials and energy companies higher. That in turn lifted the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor's 500.

Today, Y Combinator company Hipset introduced a multichannel YouTube network that helps musicians grow and monetize their online audience.