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PORTO VECCHIO, Corsica (AP) -- The first stage of the 100th Tour de France ended with a bus stuck under an archway at the finish line until minutes before the first riders arrived. Shortly after the bus was dislodged, Ge...

MF Global chief executive Jon S. Corzine was sued by federal regulators accusing him of enabling the unlawful use of about $1 billion of his customers' funds in a desperate attempt to save the failing brokerage firm. The...

After a furore erupted over the decision to replace Elizabeth Fry with Winston Churchill on £5 banknotes, the outgoing Bank of England governor, Sir Mervyn King, explained it was all a terrible misunderstanding. Those f...

When we asked our friends at PeekAnalytics to tell us who the most influential ad execs on Twitter are, we expected to get back a list of the usual suspects. You know, the most famous CEOs at the biggest agencies, plus S...

As when the federal law went into effect in 1938, critics contend a pay increase would have a disastrous effect on the economy.Let us now praise one of the many legacies that prove that, in addressing its citizens' econo...

U.S. stocks rose for the week, snapping two weeks of declines for benchmark indexes, as economic data topped estimates and comments by Federal Reserve officials eased concerns over stimulus plans. Home Depot jumped 4.9 p...

Salty breezes. Fresh-caught seafood. Storybook villages. Just off the southern coast of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard is the ultimate New England summer escape. More From Travel + Leisure: Best Secret Islands On Earth Amer...

ColoHouse Data Center, a data hosting facility certified to withstand Category 5 hurricanes and floods, has completed its second phase of expansion, adding 6,000 square feet of premium raised floor data center space.

Will someone please think of the children? In the ongoing battle for the future of the living room, that's exactly what Netflix and Amazon are doing. While shows like political drama House of Cards, resurrected sitcom Ar...

The Department of Agriculture said it would provide the legally required services to a plant in New Mexico and probably to two others.

Microsoft and Apple have an interesting history that goes back to the early days of personal computing. At times, Microsoft and Apple have fought like parents at a Little League game, squabbling over who copied whose tec...

Cars from Honda and Ford and blue cheese chicken dip are among this week's recalled consumer products. Here's a more detailed look:

Cars from Honda and Ford and blue cheese chicken dip are among this week's recalled consumer products. Here's a more detailed look:

The photo shown above appears to be the shell of Apple's next generation iPhone in a rather ugly shade of green.

Twitter has released a Kindle Fire app for its short video service Vine today.

I recently read a piece by Sarah Skerik, author of Unlocking Social Media for PR and vice president of content marketing for PR Newswire. I love what Sarah has to say and it mirrors my opinion exactly.

Guest Post What do a major social network, happening news website, and a rising database company have in common? They are all 'Made in New York.'

Legislators in Grenada have approved a bill that makes it a crime to offend people through websites such as Facebook and Twitter.

Oracle (ORCL), one of the most profitable (if not the most profitable) software companies in the industry, paid its first dividend in May 2009 of $0.05 per share. The company raised it to $0.06 per share in March 2011 an...

Second screen TV service Fanhattan has forged a deal with cable TV and Internet service provider Cox to bring its new Fan TV set-top box to its subscribers in southern California, the company confirmed to VentureBeat yes...

Guest Post If you're not sold on mobile payments or NFC, then you probably haven't considered how the smartwatch is going to change both of them.

Guest Post Today, Google Glass is not what many people imagine it to be. As with prescription "glasses," many assume you actually see through Glass.