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Mining magnate Andrew Forrest pledged on Tuesday to give 65 million Australian dollars ($62 million) to university education in his home state in one of Australia's largest philanthropic donations.

NSEL had hired SGS to verify the quantity of commodities lying in borrowers' warehouses

DieHard, owned by Sears Holdings, is taking advantage of the Halloween season by marketing car batteries as the perfect companion in a zombie apocalypse.  Y&R Midwest teamed with director Tim Router, of the production c...

Diet Coke, the country's No. 2 soda, may be losing some of its pop.

(Reuters) - Citigroup Inc and State Street Corp have been exploring ways in which they might impose limits on the use of short-term treasury bills due in the coming weeks as collateral, the Wall Street Journal reported, ...

The new deal being brokered in the Senate by Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell seems far from certain to pass the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.  The outline of the deal ca...

The two stock exchanges are turning on the charm as they compete for one of the most hotly anticipated IPOs since Facebook.NEW YORK — As Twitter Inc. shops for a home on Wall Street, the Nasdaq Stock Market and New Yor...

Upset that the U.S. fiscal impasse threatens to trigger a default that would roil financial markets worldwide, Beijing suggests 'building a de-Americanized world.'WASHINGTON — Five years after the U.S. financial crisis...

At the end of 2012, after he had been safely ensconced in the White House for another four years, President Obama had a chance to put all of the budget wrangling to bed, for good. The Bush-era tax cuts -- passed as the R...

As AT&T eyes European acquisitions, it also has to keep one eye on its debt load

(NEW YORK) -- Stocks are closing lower as hopes fade for a quick solution to the gridlock in Washington over how to avoid a U.S. government default. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 133 points, or 0.9 percent, to cl...

There's a party raging in Finland tonight. Finnish game developer, Supercell, just vaulted to multi-billion dollar valuation status after a sale to Japanese telecommunications powerhouse SoftBank.

It's day 15 of the U.S. government shutdown. And we're two days away from the October 17 debt ceiling. First, the scoreboard: Dow: 15,168.0, -133.2, -0.8% S&P 500: 1,698.0, -12.0, -0.7% NASDAQ: 3,794.0, -21.2, -0.5% A...

Those cheap fast-food prices conceal a huge hidden cost--even if you never pull into a drive-thru. New studies by the University of Illinois, University of California, Berkeley, and the National Employment Law Project fi...

The federal government shutdown is annoying, venal and dangerous. Unless you are a Democrat gleefully watching the GOP implode, it's bad, sad theater. But really, what do you expect from the most partisan Congress since ...

If Congress doesn't raise the national debt limit, the U.S. Treasury may have enough financial wiggle room to put off default until Nov. 1. But it's extraordinarily dangerous for politicians to assume they have any addit...

Typically, after he finishes scanning a room with the Structure Sensor, a 3D scanner for mobile devices, Jeff Powers, chief executive officer of Occipital (the company behind Structure), gets a strong reaction from the a...

Screenshots From Supercell's Two Blockbuster Tablet Games

Marketing departments need to move beyond seeking only engagement on social media channels and begin building a comprehensive social presence. This will require linking your website to various social media profiles, incl...

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Will Congress act on tax extenders before year-end 2013?

Benjamin and Tamae Kekona sued Ms. Paz Feng Abastillas, alias "Paz Richter", and attorney Robert A. Smith and various of his entities in Hawaii in 1993 (yes, this case goes back that far).