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World Economic Forum's annual competitiveness ranking moved USA up two places in 2013.

Serial killers and sexual deviants aren't the only people who take pleasure in other people's pain. Sadistic personality traits are more common than you'd think — more than half of people show these both in personality...

I used to own an Audi, which is to say I had a close relationship with my auto mechanic. His name was Bob. He knew my first name, too. When Bob told me what it would cost to repair or replace the timing chain, CV boot, o...

Artist Donald Judd's minimalist furniture, created for his own home, could bring style to yours.

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, has officially left the solar system NASA has confirmed. While out all alone in the blackness of space the craft has been gathering data. One type of data is audio. NASA JP...

Were you ever in the middle of a presentation and had a sudden realization that all was not right?

The brightest young stars in the music business.

When the media cognoscenti think about church & state, their focus typically revolves around the wall separating editorial decision-making and advertising sales. Journalistic purists at nearly every established news orga...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks were flat in early trading Thursday, a sign that traders may be pausing after the market's longest rally since July.     

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Lenders initiated foreclosure action in August against the fewest U.S. homes for any month in nearly eight years, a trend that should help reduce the number of homes lost to foreclosure in the months ...

One of the biggest challenges facing Brian McAndrews, the new CEO of Pandora, will be renegotiating the royalty rates the Internet radio giant pays to the music industry.

I started out in the news business as a copy editor. Somehow, I became the journalist who worked with art directors to redesign magazines. Then came the real fun. I've spent the last 13 years building, designing and prog...

Ray Dolby, an American inventor and audio pioneer who founded Dolby Laboratories, has died at the age of 80.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- As the leader of a pro-gun, anti-tax state, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has prevailed against the odds -- and sent a sobering reminder to legislators nationwide that single-party legislative domin...

In the last few years there has been a lot of research on Millenials and how they're different. But a new and important topic has now come up in many of my conversations with HR and business executives: What are their le...

While relatively few low-income people pay federal income tax, a large and growing share owe Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes, according to new estimates by the Tax Policy Center. As a result, while about 43 pe...

While the United States appears to have pulled back - at least for now - from a missile attack on the regime of Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad in retaliation for that country's alleged poison gas attacks on civilians, ...

Marissa Mayer doesn't use a passcode on her iPhone. As the CEO of Yahoo, one of one of the world's largest technology companies, she probably has some pretty important information sitting on her device. And although she ...

Recent Medicare fraud cases in Chicago and Detroit accuse certain doctors of performing unnecessary surgeries or treatment to increase their Medicare payments.

Liquidity is arguably one of the essential elements of the banking industry.  Before the global financial crisis of 2007-2008, the general assumption was that funds were always available, at no or very low cost.  Banks...

Shake could be big news for entrepreneurs--users can source documents, review and sign via iPhone. It's legal without the lawyers.

There are a number of taxes on businesses under the Affordable Care Act hat most business owners are unaware. The PCORI tax arguably takes pole position as the stupidest.