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The retailers' roads may be diverging: Best Buy's 1st-quarter results are expected to show a continuing recovery while J.C. Penney's are forecast to be dismal.For a while, J.C. Penney and Best Buy seemed to be doppelgang...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- College students no longer have to take comprehensive notes to help them prepare for finals. Not when they can buy them. Tom Brady figured this out early on, and the Florida State University sen...

After seven years, ex-spy Michael Westen may be finding a job and moving out of Miami. The USA cable hit gets strong ratings but little attention, despite becoming a mainstay for the local production industry.

Whether Jodi Arias gets her wish - to be executed rather than spend her life in prison - is now up to the Arizona jury that on Wednesday found her guilty of brutally murdering her one-time boyfriend, Travis Alexander, in...

Global cut-flower sales approached $14 billion last year and most move by cargo plane, but high jet-fuel costs and improvements in chilling technology are prompting a shift to more ocean shipping.

In these days of frivolous entertainments and frayed attention spans, the people who become famous are not necessarily the brightest stars. One of the biggest hits on YouTube, after all, is a video of a French bulldog wh...

The Tempo calendar app attempts to improve on the default calendar program for the iPhone -- and largely succeeds -- by pulling information from multiple accounts, adding relevant information such as meeting locations fr...

Bitcoin may be a virtual currency, but the buzz it's getting on the street is very real. You can't open a website or newspaper these days without reading about Bitcoin, the digital currency that was invented in 2009 by a...

The Bloomberg scandal just keeps getting worse. Steve Liesman of CNBC reports that Bloomberg reporters used private log-in data to spy on the activities of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. B...

Linda Rabbitt, the founder and chief executive of Rand Construction, found few career options available to women early in her life.

The Angry Birds franchise has taken us plenty of places. We've flung birds in Rio and in a galaxy far, far away, but now game-maker Rovio is attacking an entirely new frontier: the competitive arena. "Angry Birds Friends...

Since becoming the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, Representative Maxine Waters has softened her tone and vowed to protect bankers' interests.

The Bloomberg terminal spying scandal has reached new heights, CNBC reports. A former Bloomberg employee told CNBC that he accessed information on the terminals of...

By Patrick Temple-West and Kim Dixon WASHINGTON, May 11

Chip companies

Ted Ullyot, general counsel at Facebook, is leaving the social network to take time off, according to AllThingsD. Facebook confirmed the departure yesterday. Ullyot, 45, will depart in July. The search for his replacemen...

All of the complaints about Adobe's new subscription-only model haven't "overshadowed all the goodness that we released," Adobe marketing executive Scott Morris told VentureBeat.

Critics fear it will be like creating a national identity card.

What is the value of a college degree? Why do some college graduates get multiple job offers, while others end up with jobs that do not require a college degree?

If you walk into a game of Train unaware, you'll be stunned at the way the game makes you feel upon discovering what it is about.

A few summers back, Esquire featured a gorgeous picture of Tom Cruise on the cover to go with the feature package: How to be a Man: A guide to your 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s?after that you are on your own.

Husband was an officer and agent of an investment fund (hereinafter "Fund"). The Fund alleged that for some years, Husband had misappropriated millions of dollars from the Fund for his personal use, and that his Wife (he...