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Bald is beautiful. Especially on a baby. Or is it? One company seems to think bald babies need hair, at least based on the product it's selling: Baby wigs.

Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appeared in court for his arraignment yesterday. However, those hoping to see how his appearence had changed were left disappointed -- as Tsarnaev was appearing in a federal court...

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A year ago UpTo was going to be the social network that lives in your calendar. Today, with 250,000 downloads, a million events, and a $2M series A round under his belt, CEO Greg Schwartz realizes that a modernized calen...

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The Wright brothers' plane first took off at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903, but it wasn't until 1927 that the first federal pilot license was issued. License No. 1 went to William P. MacCracken, Jr., the Assistant S...

Kenyan woman hails Calif. bus, leads police to Saudi princess charged with human trafficking SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- Suitcase in hand, the 30-year-old domestic worker from Kenya managed to flag down a Southern Californ...

SAO PAULO (AP) -- Tens of thousands of workers across Brazil walked off their jobs on Thursday in a peaceful nationwide strike demanding better working conditions and improved public services in Latin America's biggest n...

With the popularity of celebrity chefs -- and 45 million daily Instagram uploads, a good portion of which are food-related -- there's never been more interest in what we eat.

Jack Dangermond's software is used by 350,000 organisations to make sense of 'big data', integrating vast troves of information related to specific locations. The post The unassuming entrepreneur who made 'Facebook for g...

Drugstore chain, insurer association hope to aid those tangled up by new insurance offerings, requirementsDrugstore chain, insurer association hope to aid those tangled up by new insurance offerings, requirements.

Asian markets rise after Fed chief's monetary policy comments

Commercial real estate leaders expect the state's nonresidential market to keep growing for the next three years but start to slow after 2016 or 2017.As the economy improves, commercial real estate industry leaders are i...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Gov. Jerry Brown is making one final bid to delay a federal court order requiring the state to release nearly 10,000 inmates by year's end to improve conditions in California prisons. The admin...

A bill would require Wal-Mart to pay a starting wage that is several dollars above the city's minimum.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Gov. Pat Quinn suspended Illinois lawmakers' pay on Wednesday, following through on his warning of consequences if they failed to come up with a solution to the state's nearly $100 billion pension crisis,...

Here's an old chart that sadly still holds true today. While computing power has taken off, battery life has languished. Christopher Mims republished the chart today at Quartz. It came from a 2005 report by Joseph A. Par...

Adrianne Curry first rose to fame after winning the debut season of "America's Next Top Model," but these days the self-proclaimed "Angst Ridden Gamer Child of The 90's" is most well known for her crazy costumes at fan c...

Brazil is pouring approximately $15 billion dollars into the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. The sporting events are expected to generate a combined 3.6 million temporary and long-term jobs and to boost GDP gr...

The mobile payments space is a crowded battlefield of competing companies and rivalry is slowing the sector's growth.

Silicon Valley-based Comprehend provides the requisite tools for customers in the life sciences sector to collect data, and most importantly, mine it for relevant insights.