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Police in Scotland have launched an investigation into a new Glasgow nightclub following complaints from clubbers that its girl's toilet housed a two way mirror. Punters are asked to part with as much as £800 to access ...

After being arrested by Federal Protective Service yesterday, they were asked for their names. Among the names that the arrested gave were Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase, Brian Moynihan of BOA, John Stumpf of Wells Fargo...

The cover of TIME Magazine's June 3 edition has just been released. It's a poignant tribute to the residents of Moore, Oklahoma, an Oklahoma City suburb that was ravaged by a massive tornado on Monday. The twister destro...

Justice John Roberts recently argued gays in America have so much political power they don't need protection from anti-gay bias. He's absolutely right that gay rights have progressed rapidly over the past few years. But ...

Merck & Co Inc. said it will repurchase $5 billion worth of its common stock under an accelerated share repurchase agreement with Goldman Sachs & Co.

In the first week after MoneyGram International implemented IBM software, called Identity Insight, to detect and prevent fraudulent transactions, the program stopped $1 million in fraud. Over the course of its first year...

The Japanese yen falls following fresh remarks by Japan's economic minister about the currency's recent price levels.

What began two years ago as an $18 million clubhouse reconstruction at Belmont Country Club has devolved into a nearly $30 million fiasco, and now the club's affluent, well-mannered membership has lost its collective coo...

John Haley, chief executive of Watermark Environmental Inc., borrows a popular business phrase to help explain his company's success: "You're either growing or you're dying."

With this year's home buying season off to a strong start, due in large part to tight inventories and low interest rates, many prospective homebuyers may find securing financing an obstacle. Here are some tips on how to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate voted Tuesday to keep a $400 million annual cut -- or roughly a half of 1 percent -- to the food stamp program as part of a major five-year farm bill.

The Senate dragged Apple Inc., the world's most valuable company, into the debate over the U.S. tax code Tuesday, grilling CEO Tim Cook over allegations that its Irish subsidiaries help...

The Affordable Care Act, aka health care reform, aka Obamacare, is spurring a massive creation of new business opportunities, according to the HHS chief technical officer, Bryan Sivak.

Shareholders at JPMorgan Chase voted to let Jamie Dimon, the chairman and CEO of the nation's largest bank, keep both his jobs Tuesday. Dimon also received strong support to be re-elected to the bank's board.

FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors. Rosenberg: "The Bull Market May Well Be In Complacency" (Gluskin Sheff) "The gold-silver ratio has...

Guest Post Ultimately, the world is witnessing a fundamental phase shift in the way applications are built and designed. Keeping these new basics in mind will let you create and deploy robust apps that people actually wa...

Timothy Cook calls for simplification of U.S. tax code in his Senate testimony.

During a press conference on Tuesday to launch VMware's new cloud, Bill Fathers, VMware's top cloud exec, dropped a bombshell: VMware would be "the first and only cloud provider" to offer SAP's popular and pricey softwar...

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Microsoft is the last of the three big video game console makers to unveil its latest gaming system. The unveiling comes nearly eight years after the Xbox 360 went on sale. It follows last fall's debut o...

The developer of pull-to-refresh was so concerned about how Twitter would use his patent that he asked Twitter to agree with him -- as part of the terms of the sale of his company -- that it would never use the patent of...