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The average interest rate on a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage declined for the second consecutive week, to 3.43 percent, in response to weak employment data, Freddie Mac said Thursday.

MinoMonsters is a mobile gaming startup that released major updates to the game today and shared some news surrounding the company's progress.

Total U.S. money market mutual fund assets fell $8.89 billion to $2.623 trillion for the week that ended Wednesday, according to the Investment Company Institute.

Sentiment in Hong Kong's residential property market remains sluggish following a series of real estate tightening measures imposed by the government, according to the latest monthly report from Knight Frank. Data from t...

Over 500,000 magazines have been created since Flipboard debuted their new edition two weeks ago.

Interest in the virtual currency Bitcoin has surged in recent months, but Mt. Gox -- the largest exchange -- is (for now) holding back Bitcoin from stability and legitimacy.

Tianlang Guan, a 14-year-old Chinese amateur, shot an incredible 1-over 73 today at the Masters. He's the youngest person to ever play the Masters. He wasn't born when Tiger Woods won his first Masters. Yet, here he is, ...

If a married corporate executive threw a party, sexually assaulted a female guest while she slept, got convicted of sexual assault by a jury of his peers -- only to have his conviction overturned by the chairman of the b...

Professional networking website LinkedIn is paying about $90 million to acquire Pulse, which makes an e-reader platform used on mobile devices.

It's easy to overlook what's important when it comes to saving money. Many people would sooner clip a coupon for shampoo than review the expenses they're paying to invest in mutual funds.

In the month that has passed since Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul's historic filibuster over drone strikes on American soil, polling has shown a dramatic shift in U.S. public opinion of the issue. Overall, polling on...

U.S. intelligence assessment says for the first time that North Korea may have developed a nuclear device small enough to mount on a ballistic missile, though such a weapon's reliability would be low.

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is a committee within the Federal Reserve System that oversees the nation's open market operations. The FOMC meets eight times a year, and the minutes from these meetings are rele...

McDonald's is trying to reach dissatisfied customers by adding people to fetch sauce packets and Happy Meal toys, according to a report by Julie Jargon at The Wall Street Journal. The restaurant chain found that one in f...

Concluding that "there was no demand for women" on corporate boards, Beth Stewart decided to start a business to find them.

Leasing a new car is simply better for some people, are you one of them?

Bid to lower exemption after January deal unexpected; advisers sitting tight for now.

The cost of bailing out Cyprus has swollen to 23 billion euros ($30 billion), with the crisis-hit country having to take on the lion's share of the measures needed to avoid bankruptcy, according to a draft document by th...

DreamWorks Animation says it has bought the Troll brand from Denmark's Dam Things and plans to expand the fuzzy toy franchise worldwide.

RackWare is a cloud startup that has raised $18 million in its first round of funding. The RackWare Management Module (RMM) helps businesses scale across private, public, or hybrid cloud environments, without changing ap...

Honey has secured angel funding fot its technology that surfs the web for discounts, so you can benefit from coupons without doing any of the work to find them.

Virginia announced a new cyber-security accelerator that is based on the same model as Silicon Valley's Y Combinator.