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With nearly half the U.S. workforce made up of women these days, you'd think paychecks would start to reflect the same kind of equity. But working women still earn only 77 cents for every dollar their male counterparts t...

Alex Pusco turned his enthusiasm for financial technical analysis into a multi-million pound business.

Memorial Weekend sales at some national retailers have started as early as Tuesday, so shoppers may want to find what they are looking earlier than later, according to Thayer Meicler, co-founder of the free location-base...

Few companies truly understand how the consumer thinks, and even fewer are able to successfully translate this understanding into an integrated mobile experience.

"Fast and Furious 6" hits theaters this weekend, packed with an amazing roster of cars and over the top action sequences. But the movie franchise would never have started without real life inspiration. Before you head to...

WEEKLY LOSS: Major stock indexes ended the week lower for the first time since the week ending April 19. A disappointing manufacturing report out of China and a sharp fall in Japan's stock market rattled investors' nerve...

Only 49 percent of shareholders voted to approve the executive compensation at Elgin-based Middleby Corp.

Yahoo has officially placed a bid to acquire popular video streaming service Hulu, along with Time Warner Cable, Amazon, Guggenheim Digital Media, and former News Corp. President Peter Chernin.

BOSTON (AP) -- Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Edward Markey released eight years of tax returns Friday, showing virtually all he's earned has come from his salary as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

An energy company's plan to drill an exploratory shale gas well in a bucolic area of southern England has galvanized residents.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) vetoed five bills Thursday, the first to reach her desk since she vowed to veto all legislation until the state...

South American hospitality company Atton Hotels will open a location in Miami two years from now.

Credit scores, as with most attempts to make sense of our world, operate on the assumption that the near future will look a lot like the recent past, and that going forward, people can be expected to behave pretty much a...

County staff recommends that the board approve the church but reject a request to allow three apartments for church personnel.

The gains suggest economic growth may be holding steady this spring.

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Timothy D. Cook testified on Apple's taxes, Jamie Dimon held onto his dual roles at JPMorgan Chase, and an immigration bill advanced in the Senate.

More and more, health professionals from varied fields put their energies, time and money toward gaining the knowledge and experience necessary to effectively embrace the power of nutrition. But astonishingly, health pro...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Legislators in Puerto Rico on Friday approved a heavily debated bill that outlaws employment discrimination based on gender or sexual orientation.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- ISTA Pharmaceuticals Inc. pleaded guilty on Friday in a federal case involving its eye drug Xibrom, admitting it promoted the drug for unapproved uses and agreeing to pay $33.5 million in fines and ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korean police say a suicidal man jumping to his death killed a 5-year-old girl by falling on her as she walked with her parents outside the apartment building. A police official said the ...

Flickr is hiring a select batch of software and mobile engineers. To make sure that only the right kind of candidates apply, the company hid its "We're hiring" ad in the source code of the newly redesigned website's fron...