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566 Sears employees descended upon Chicago dressed up as the "Man of Steel" today to break a Guinness World Record. The gathering, which took place at the Sears Holding Place, broke the Guinness World Record for the most...

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The Shiller P/E ratio, or the cyclically-adjusted price-earnings ratio, is one of the most popular yet most misused measures of stock market value. It's calculated by taking the S&P 500 and dividing it by the average of ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A coalition of civil rights organizations filed a judicial misconduct complaint Tuesday against a conservative federal judge for comments she allegedly made during a speech that are seen as discrimi...

SERVICE FIRMS EXPANDS: The Institute for Supply Management said Wednesday that service firms grew at a faster pace in May, driven by a jump in new orders. The group's index of service-sector growth rose to 53.7 from 53.1...

With the government and Chrysler in a tug of war over the safety of older-model Jeeps, the nearly three million consumers who are driving them are left in limbo, wondering if the vehicle they depend on is safe to drive.

New details have emerged that while Director of the CIA, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta divulged Top Secret details of the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, potentially jeopardizing the safety of the Navy SEA...

FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors. ROSENBERG: There Is A Great Contrary Buy Signal For Gold (Gluskin & Sheff) "It is headlines like t...

Any.DO launches Cal, simplifying calendar management and task planning.

As construction on the One World Trace Center is drawing to a close (at least on the outside of the tower), work continues on the World Trade Center Transportation Hub. The transit station is designed by Spanish architec...

In a brief-but-amazing McKinsey interview with Chamath Palihapitiya, the venture capitalist and former Facebook exec outlines three technologies that most excite him: sensor networks (such as asthma inhalers that can hel...

Gold edged up Wednesday as a weak report on the job market fed speculation that the Federal Reserve would keep pumping money into the economy. Corn prices plunged 18 percent...

FAULT LINES: A series of weak economic reports sent the stock market plunging to its lowest level in a month. Troubling economic data included weak hiring at private companies, orders to U.S. factories that were lower th...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The International Monetary Fund acknowledged on Wednesday that it made "notable failures" in the Greek bailout, underestimating how much the austerity measures...

The lobbying groups for the major carriers have been hard at work trying to rewrite history. Even though the Wireless Association (CTIA) was the main group petitioning the Librarian of Congress to ban individuals unlocki...

San Diego-based WeMonitor provides monitoring systems that "demystify" home energy. It has raised $5.3 million in financing to expand its team and release its first product later this year.

By Dianne Schilling, author of 10 Steps to Effective Listening

I, C, G or L -- figuring out what layout to use for your kitchen is almost like learning to speak a new language. Luckily, Houzz's kitchen layout guides can help you find the right translation for your kitchen remodel, o...

I have been an IT security industry analyst for 13 years. For much of that time the epicenter of the business was indeed in the San Francisco Bay Area. Industry giants like Cisco, Juniper, McAfee, Symantec, and Fortinet ...

A series of Forbes Insights profiles of Thought Leaders changing the business landscape: Patrick Quinlan, Co-Founder and CEO of Convercent...

Like Shutterstock itself, which serves as a marketplace for freelancers to vend their wares to end customers, Skillfeed will be a middle-man-type service between instructor/experts and learners.

Today, Gary Vaynerchuk starts "tripling down" on content - because "doubling down" doesn't begin to describe how important he thinks it is. The social media expert is relaunching his blog today. Why? "The more content I ...