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It's International Coffee Day. And there's little doubt that America's love for coffee has had an impact on coffee prices. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which publishes consumer price index (CPI) data, cof...

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On Friday, I attended the inaugural Social Enterprise Crowdfunding Conference at the Snowbird Resort near Salt Lake, the project of Forbes Contributor Devin Thorpe and Richard Swart, a crowdfunding expert I've collaborat...

The Pebble watch started as a Kickstarter project  that exceeded their $100K funding goal by over $10M over a year ago in May, 2012.  The watch is currently shipping directly from Pebble and you can also buy it at Bes...

The newspaper business probably hasn't worked out as planned for the Fortress Investment Group, which eight years ago began buying up local papers across the country, including about 100 in Massachusetts.     

What Illinois residents need to know about signing up as insurance exchanges launch Tuesday Three years ago when President Barack Obama signed the 906-page law that promised to transform health care, Americans were deepl...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republican-run House has voted to avoid a partial government shutdown next week but also delay President Barack Obama's health care law.     

Sweat gathered on the back of Gilberto Olivo's shirt as he tried to divert attention from his resume at a recent job fair in the working-class town of Catano.

Video   Building in Dinosaur Adventure Land in Pensacola, Florida. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Recently I predicted that although Kent Hovind might keep losing in court, he would never give up his tax fight.  As Yogi B...

Welcome to Base Camp Bonn Young Hostel, the world's first hostel that uses camping trailers for the rooms. Depending on how you look at it, this could be the weirdest or the coolest thing ever. Built inside a former ware...

A short history of the device from a tiny Canadian company that created and, for a long time, dominated what became the smartphone market.     

State Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker is holding eight events across the state to solicit input about economic development issues and discuss recent initiatives launched by the department.

A Boeing 787 Dreamliner, operated by Poland's LOT airline, has made an unscheduled landing in Reykjavik, Iceland, because of a malfunctioning antenna.

A Boeing 787 Dreamliner, operated by Poland's LOT airline, has made an unscheduled landing in Reykjavik, Iceland, because of a malfunctioning antenna.

Authorities say an Alitalia jet on a flight from Madrid safely made an emergency landing at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport after one of its landing gears failed to open.

Henderson Alvarez added a bright spot to an otherwise bleak season for the Marlins when he struck out Matt Tuiasosopo of the Tigers to complete nine innings without allowing a hit. However, the no-hitter did not become o...

ROME (AP) -- Authorities say an Alitalia jet on a flight from Madrid safely made an emergency landing at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport after one of its landing gears failed to open.     

"Farce reigns and risk aversion rises. Yen up, euro down." That's from SocGen strategist Kit Juckes and it just about sums it up. The farce of course is what's going on (again) in the U.S. Congress, and the situation in ...

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KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- Thousands of Sudanese protesters took to the streets of the capital Khartoum late Sunday, chanting "freedom" and renewing calls for their longtime autocratic president to resign after dozens of pr...

Obamacare actually raises an interesting pop-culture question: What will writers do when they can no longer use catastrophic health-care costs as a plot device? Health-care costs are an incredibly common explanation for ...