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James Woods, 66, had people talking when he was dating 26-year-old Ashley Madison. But the actor outdid himself Tuesday night at the "White House Down" premiere in New York City, where he showed off his new 20-year-old g...

When bees are forced to interact with only their left antennas, they have trouble bee-having: Just as humans shake with their right hands, bees also greet each other by predominantly using their right antennas. A new stu...

Technology executives and trade groups are alarmed by potential new taxes on computer services as part of the transportation finance bill Massachusetts legislators passed Wednesday night, saying the legislation is too br...

Apple's newest line of advertising has been a critical success. Unfortunately, according to Peter Burrows at Bloomberg News, they're a failure with consumers. The newest series of ads from Apple feature slow piano playin...

QVC just became the latest in a long line of companies to drop embattled celebrity chef Paula Deen. Since the Food Network announced that it was ending its relationship with Deen, people have been questioning whether QVC...

NIKE'S FOURTH-QUARTER RESULTS: Nike Inc. earned $668 million, or 76 cents per share, for the quarter ended May 31. That compares with $549 million, or 60 cents per share, in the year-ago period. Revenue increased 7 perce...

US regulators charge the former boss of broker MF Global with failing to properly manage the company, which allegedly misused customer funds before its collapse.

No matter where it's held, the annual Major League Baseball All-Star game is almost as much of a culinary event as it is a sporting event. Each year, vendors at the home field does their best to woo attendees with specia...

The attorneys representing the former baristas suing Starbucks for its tipping policy say the fight is not over after New York's Court of Appeals chimed in over whether shift supervisors should get a cut of the tipping b...

Where does the jobless person go for inspiration? For strength to keep going till there's work? Is it the hope that unemployment will pass? Hoping...

Likely every one of us has held a job at one time or another that made us feel as though we were selling our soul for a paycheck. That might sound like an exaggeration, but I have a gut feeling that notion isn't far from...

Windows 8 is about to get a handful of new high-quality apps to help give the OS more firepower including Foursquare, Yelp, and Songza.

A weaker crude can offset the benefits that the company can reap on account of a depreciating rupee

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Starbucks baristas must share their tips with shift supervisors, but assistant managers are left out in the cold, New York's highest court ruled Wednesday.

PayPal wants to explore space - or at least begin to figure out how payments and commerce will work beyond Earth's realm once space travel and tourism take off.

European Union finance ministers reached a plan that laid out the order in which shareholders, creditors and others would cover losses suffered when banks collapse.

MSCI Asia ex-Japan inches up, Nikkei opens up; investors keep wary eyes on China markets

Chrysler has agreed to recall just over 1.5 million older Jeep SUVs in a deal reached last week with government safety regulators.

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What do the announcements by Danny Alexander mean for transport, housing and broadband sectors? Transport As far as transport goes, this was very much one for the motorists. Danny Alexander might have stressed the massiv...

As technology advances at an unprecedented rate, now performing tasks typically reserved for human creativity, one realizes just how special human beings are and how inadequate technology can be. Lately, we've been recei...

Angry Birds on a giant touchscreen gives the game a new feel.