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Starbucks (SBUX) recently filed a $5 million lawsuit against its ham supplier, Wellshire Farms. In 2008 Starbucks began making sandwiches with what the company thought was Wellshire's ham, but the meat instead came from ...

Turns out the meme is right: Chuck Norris -- and his home -- can't be found.

Bernard "Bernie" Ecclestone is credited with bringing Formula One racing the fame and clout that it has today. The 82-year-old Formula One president and CEO is worth a staggering $3.8 billion dollars. These days Ecclesto...

Nick Glass meets the Dramix inventor Ann Lambrechts who has managed to increased concrete durability using steel fibers.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories came out with their annual Sankey Diagram explaining energy use in the U.S. today, and it's another excellent visualization of the real story of American energy use. The chart sho...

In the recent correction, the higher credit quality segments of the high yield market declined more than the lower credit quality segment.

Back in February, Google enraged some of its biggest advertising customers by changing the Adwords system they use to make it less likely that they'd run mobile or tablet-only campaigns. It was a fix, they said. Immediat...

The city of Detroit, which for years paid its bills with borrowed money, is the largest city in U.S. history to file for bankruptcy protection. Here's a look at how the city spiraled into financial ruin and why it's in s...

Hospitals, 911 call centers and other public safety agencies can be shut down by hackers using denial-of-service attacks.The demand stunned the hospital employee. She had picked up the emergency room's phone line, expect...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just voted to move ahead with a proposal to bring faster Internet to almost every school in the country.

Motorola's not-so-secret Moto X, its first Android smartphone developed under Google, will officially be unveiled in a few weeks.

Google has made a lot of design changes to Gmail in the past few months, sometimes to the dismay of its users. Now it's fixing one of the biggest complaints.

CBS on Thursday launched an ad campaign that is intended to scare TV watchers and make them angry.

Needless to say, investors' confidence was impacted by this week's flood of earnings news. Here's a look at what moved up, what moved down, and why.

With Gmail's new inbox, Google is creating its own flavor of spam.

Adobe has released PhoneGap 3.0, and it's full of new features to make cross-platorm mobile development easier for y'all.

The convoluted story behind the creation of The Hamptons newest luxury resort, a case of purists almost destroying a historic building in their zeal to prevent change.

Would be entrepreneurs describe their proposed ventures in mashup style, "It's like Groupon meets Zillow" or "It's Etsy for Dog Products." Most of the combinations I hear make me nod in quick understanding - which is the...

This year Google made one of the biggest changes to the engine that drives its cash flow, ever. And that change was supposed to drive increased revenue and higher costs per click. I guess someone forgot to tell Google.

Kate Middleton has reportedly been helicoptered from her parents' country home to London in anticipation of the royal baby's arrival -- but she has yet to arrive at St. Mary's hospital where she will check in to give bir...

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says that his expedition company has recovered a engine used in the first moon landing spaceflight. No big deal.

San Jose State University is shuttering the five online classes it introduced in April, a decision that may prove to be a major setback for online education.