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There is just something about Miguel Angel Jimenez that everybody loves. The cigar. The belly. The ponytail. And oh yes, the stretching. We will never get tired of watching Jimenez stretch before a round of golf.There is...

Leap Motion is a tiny device that lets you interact with your computer a la "Minority Report" - meaning you use your hands and fingers to move things around on the screen without actually touching it. While the concept b...

By making two remarkable electric cars and becoming the first new American auto company to turn a profit in decades, Tesla Motors has made itself into a household name. But why did founders Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpe...

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My resume is just that -- my résumé. Before I even interview with you, you're instructing me to edit my own information out of my own résumé and put your name on it?

Ahead of the Tape: Investors' enthusiasm for IPOs is on the rise. One of those, Noodles & Co., reports its first quarterly results as a public company Thursday, but they won't do much to justify its gains.

This help wanted ad for web developers at Bloopark assumes applicants will be male, and that their girlfriends don't understand what they do: Bloopark is an Apple app development agency based in Magdeburg, Germany. It al...

A discount grocery chain is being called "Wal-Mart's worst nightmare." WinCo, a Western grocery chain with about 100 stores, has a business model that allows for cheaper prices than Wal-Mart, writes Brad Tuttle at Time. ...

Wal-Mart is quietly becoming a popular destination for buying beer, according to Renee Dudley at Bloomberg, who writes that the company aims to double sales by 2016. The company is well on the way to success, Cameron Smi...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Virgin Chairman Sir Richard Branson, two of the tech world's most lauded entrepreneurs, are advising entrepreneurs and talking about their mutual passion for space during a Google + hangout this a...

Retailer revises forecast, projects steep Q2 loss.

Drivers of the world, rejoice: The technology behind the natural gas revolution could give us a more flexible and dependable source of gasoline

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Grains futures were mostly higher Thursday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The parents of a camp counselor crushed to death by a falling tree near Yosemite National Park sued Pacific Gas & Electric Co., contractors hired by the utility and the camp's arborist, saying they ...

Mike Kalis, the chief executive officer of Marketplace Homes, grew up in Plymouth, Michigan and graduated from Michigan State University in 2004 with a degree in business. Kalis did not have access to much money while in...

Mongolian policy makers have scrambled to minimise the fallout following the surprise collapse of the country's fifth-largest bank. The post Mongolia shaken by banking collapse was first published on MoneyWeek.

Katie Kline and Noah Goodale giggled as they hoisted an old rusty brown bicycle and prepared to clean it off. Their teacher and mentor, Niaomi Curtis, directed from a distance.

BANGKOK (AP) -- A drop in oil supplies and positive Chinese trade figures helped boost the price of oil on Thursday.

BANGKOK (AP) -- Asian stock markets were mostly higher Thursday after Chinese trade figures suggested a slowdown in the world's No. 2 economy might be plateauing.

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"The quickness to market is incredible," says Gregory Phillips, a senior web analyst at OfficeMax. "It's literally hitting a button."