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No one has time for anything anymore, amid the increasing demands from work, family and friends. Yet unemployment remains high. No wonder an array of new services are offering to ease the pressure on overextended individ...

Argos Therapeutics, a Durham company that is developing a promising treatment for kidney cancer, has defied a difficult funding environment by raising an impressive $42.5 million in venture capital.

Durable goods orders recorded their biggest drop in nearly a year in July

Next time you host a soiree, you can collect photos of the event from your guests in one album on Facebook.

Soybean prices rose sharply Monday as hot, dry weather threatened crops in the Midwest.

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With the help of new software, Floridians can soon put their individual needs before private insurance carriers in hope of landing a better insurance rate.

Statements like "a cubic mile of rock" take on new meaning when that cubic mile is laid out in plain sight, like God attacked the mountain with a cosmic ice cream scoop.

Even if your meetings aren't as important to world peace as Reagan and Gorbachev's, there are plenty of benefits to making your next meeting a walking meeting.

Miley Cyrus danced with giant bears, twerked on Robin Thicke, and stripped down on stage during MTV's Video Music Awards. Cyrus' performances of "We Can't Stop" and "Blurred Lines" collaboration with Thicke was one of th...

BANGKOK (AP) -- Asian stock markets mostly rose Monday after expectations for an imminent phaseout of the Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus program began to fade.

Shannon Burke is typical of many American shoppers these days. She's pouring money into her home and cutting back on everything else.

Novan Therapeutics, a Durham company that is developing nitric oxide-based skin therapies, has been awarded a $7.8 million government contract to develop a treatment for thermal burns.

The burgeoning market value is a turnabout for Facebook, whose stock slumped as low as $17.73 in September

China's government tried Monday to reassure companies and its public about the economy's health, saying growth is stabilizing after a lengthy decline and should hit the official target of 7.5...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A conservative group is launching a radio ad challenging Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell to oppose any money for President Barack Obama's health care law even if it means triggering a governme...

Is it time to adopt a new naming system for hurricanes? A new video from 350 Action proposes the World Meteorological Organization drop its pre-determined...

The stage is set for Aussie startups to look up and scale from Down Under.

Argentine airline unions are threatening to strike Thursday if the government goes ahead with plans to evict the local subsidiary of Latin America's biggest carrier from its Buenos Aires airport hangar.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew has told Congress that the government will run out of money to pay its bills in mid-October unless lawmakers raise the country's borrowing limit, which is capped at $16.7 t...

A U.S. judge on Monday granted final approval to Facebook's $20 million settlement of a lawsuit over targeted advertising despite objections that the deal did not go far enough to protect children's privacy. Five plainti...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Two former employees of Flow Traders, an electronic trading company, were charged Monday in New York with stealing secret data and computer codes from the company to help start their own business.