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A reader responds to "Trying to Slam the Bailout Door" (Fair Game, April 28).

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Over the past couple of seasons, NBA players have gone a little crazy with their fashion. Patterned shirts and lenseless glasses are all the rage among players like Russell Westbrook, but there are still a few guys who d...

The way you listen is telling, a compass that points to the true focus of your attention. For good listeners, that needle points to the person talking. For bad listeners, that needle points to themselves. The thing is th...

The pro-Assad hacking group Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) appear to have taken over the Twitter account of E!Online, using it to tweet a fake headline that said Justin Bieber had come out as gay. The hack comes after simi...

In her memoir released this week, Amanda Knox offers anecdotes about how she filled her time in Italian prison. She was locked up for four years when she was arrested and stood trial for allegedly murdering her study-abr...

Deciding which college to attend may make all the difference in your lifetime earning potential. And the colleges and universities on this list prove that a degree in engineering is definitely worth the money. Payscale p...

ASK ordinary people about their own Chinese dream, and you find owning a home is high on the list. But years of rising house prices have put that dream out of reach of many. A slowing economy appeared to take some of the...

"I am overwhelmed that our vision has reached its destination," wrote Secure.me co-founder Mario Grobholz on the company blog. "The deal with Avast is the most crucial milestone in our company's history."

You don't have to be an experienced product planner to understand why 2013 is the final year for the Acura ZDX. All you have to do is look at the sales figures. In 2012, Acura sold a total of 775 ZDXs, down over 50% from...

You don't have to be an experienced product planner to understand why 2013 is the final year for the Acura ZDX. But slow sales do not tell the whole story, not by a long shot.

Outside, it's minus 22 degrees as a February wind blasts across the Central Asian steppe and through the Mongolian capital, Ulaanbaatar. Inside Government House, President Tsakhia Elbegdorj delivers a televised speech th...

A reader responds to "Need Motivation? Declare a Deadline" (Workstation, April 21).

A robotic arm, equipped with audio and video hardware, provides a direct link from the supervisor to the situation and machinery. The arm also contains a projector, so the supervisor can literally draw out a plan of atta...

Each week at Forbes we scan our database of corporate insiders to see who got richer from the action in the stock market. Thanks to well-received first quarter earnings reports from giants like American International Gro...

As other print publications struggle to maintain great, expensive content in an age of changing economics and reader habits, it's heartening to watch an older institution gamely try new things.

Though the U.S. has seen 40 percent growth in bicycle commuters since 2000, their numbers have yet to surpass 1 million. In contrast, there are 204 million personal vehicles on the road on a given day. That's a shame. No...

Guest Post You can achieve anything you set your mind to; doing so is just process of reduction. Don't believe me? Ask Elon Musk and Richard Branson.

MAVEN is going to dabble in atmospheric forensics, looking at Martian solar winds and gathering data to figure out a bit more about how the planet's atmosphere decayed. You can use that as inspiration for your haiku.

For as long as I can remember, it's been fashionable for management consultants to attribute many of the challenges of biopharmaceutical companies to scientists run amuck (a perspective both summarized and challenged her...

Better World Books, perhaps the preeminent poster child for how to start and run a growing healthy social enterprise, just turned 10 years old. With about 340 employees, revenues are approaching $65 million, with year af...

In Part III of my series of reports from the 10th annual Strategic Investment Conference, presented Altegris Investments and John Mauldin, the question of how to invest during a deleveraging cycle is addressed by A. Gary...