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Islamist rebels from the Russian Caucasus who are fighting alongside Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists in Syria could pose a serious security threat to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, analysts say. Russia has pulled out all the ...

UPDATE: BlackBerry says it will fire 4,500 employees. Details here. EARLIER: BlackBerry shares have been halted. The company is expected to announce some news soon.  There's been a lot of talk lately that BlackBerry is ...

Steve Ballmer doesn't have much time left as CEO of Microsoft, so he's letting it all out, including opening up about his biggest regrets. On a call with financial analysts on Thursday, Ballmer said he most regrets not h...

Hispanic Heritage Month is a yearly opportunity to evaluate the state of Hispanics affairs in business and economic power. Despite the slowly changing environment in participation and inclusion, only eight CEOs or 1.6 pe...

JPMorgan Chase & Co. will pay $920 million for trading losses that shook the financial world last year. But the bigger price may be a few words rarely uttered in…

Quantitative Easing is a dangerous experiment that will end badly

Progress in reaching a deal to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons helped put downward pressure on oil prices Friday.

1. Focus The biggest time drain for nearly all the women business owners I know is lack of focus. It means that even if you manage to free up some precious time in your over-busy schedule to work ON your business for a c...

Apple CEO Tim Cook joined Twitter today. He's only following 11 accounts, and it's quite an eclectic group. Kings of Leon is probably the best one though. Here's the list: Join the conversation about this story »    ...

European stock markets retreat from multiyear highs reached a day earlier, as investors opt for the sidelines ahead of the German election over the weekend.

Huge "Super Typhoon" Usagi is headed towards Hong Kong at the moment. While it is set to weaken by the time it makes landfall later today, it is currently spewing 190 mile-per-hour winds. A typhoon is a Pacific Ocean cyc...

Israeli investigative journalist Ronen Bergman has published a comprehensive history of "the Israeli-American efforts to penetrate the Assad regime." The reports details several subterfuges, sabotages, and assassinations...

As the favorite to succeed Ben S. Bernanke to lead the Federal Reserve, Janet L. Yellen faces no shortage of hurdles.

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. -- A New York City investment banker accused of raping a woman in the Hamptons faces arraignment Friday on a grand jury indictment. Jason Lee was arrested last month at an East Hampton home that he and hi...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- New Zealand's government expects to raise up to $1.8 billion by selling nearly half of the country's largest power company.     

Beyoncé and Jay Z skyrocketed to the top of Forbes' annual list of highest-earning celebrity couples for the second year in a row, pocketing an estimated $95 million between June 2012 and June 2013. Beyoncé had no tro...

(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer has made an impassioned plea to investors to support his vision of the world's largest software company as a unified devices and services powerhouse in his swan so...

The Obama administration will press ahead Friday with tough requirements for new coal-fired power plants, moving to impose for the first time strict limits on the pollution blamed for global warming.

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- Plaintiffs' hopes for collecting a $19 billion judgment awarded by an Ecuadorean court against Chevron Corp. for oil contamination in the Amazon have suffered another potential setback.     

Web-based car-sharing companies will have to make sure drivers undergo training and criminal background checks and have commercial liability insurance under rules approved Thursday by California regulators.     

The economics website FRED has just added data on median household income and real median household income for all of the states plus the district of Columbia going back to 1984. It's a fun dataset that lets you see how ...

Most think it's a long shot that Senate Democrats will vote to defund Obamacare, even after the House approved a defund measure Friday, but at least one congressional Republican is expecting some divine intervention. "I ...