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Being a celebrity’s personal assistant may sound glamorous, but before you brush off your résumé and give your favorite star a call, read these cautionary tales. SEE ALSO: Leaked Tour Rider Reveals The Crazy Items B...

While walking the showroom floor at New York Comic Con we came across a lot of great and elaborate cosplay. But we stopped in our tracks when we saw a custom "Mass Effect" cosplay made by Beck Noel featuring the video ga...

There are more angles to building (and destroying) your company?s brand these days than ever. With various social media outlets in play ? as well as the traditional means of getting customers? attention ? businesses have...

Savvy startups in restaurant and the service sector are beating the competition and standing out with snarky, funny, sexy names. While a few are growing through corporate stores, most are getting franchise owners to buy ...

When the 2013 Nobel Prize winners were announced this week, I was thrilled to see my parent's neighbor, Dr. Robert Shiller, on the list. Until now, Shiller was best known for his book "Irrational Exuberance (named for Fe...

A late surge of cases against low-level offenders will push the SEC's case total close to last year's levels, masking a steep drop in enforcement actions related to the financial crisis.

Ten video marketing mistakes businesses make -- and advice for how to turn the tide and keep viewers engaged.

The Department of Veterans Affairs backed nearly 630,000 mortgages for service members and veterans this fiscal year, an all-time record for this nearly 70-year-old home loan program. VA loans have experienced incredible...

Al Gore, the former vice president of the U.S., got drunk at the St. Regis Hotel one night in 2009 with Twitter founders  Evan Williams and Biz Stone and offered to buy Twitter from them, according to Nick Bilton's book...

With Oktoberfest fast approaching, there's only one drink on your mind: Beer. Really. Good. Beer. But not all of us can take time off to fly to Germany to clink steins with local fräuleins for days on end. You can, how...

As soon as Twitter filed its paperwork to go public, reporters scrambled to make sense of it all. Two bits of news circulated about Twitter's investors that weren't true.  The truth is buried here, in a deep dive about ...

The interest rate futures would help banks and financial firms assess expectations for borrowing costs and hedge risks of rate changes to bond portfolios

Forty years ago, someone asked a profound question that fundamentally changed how we communicate with each other every day. At the time, I was nine years old living in South Africa. When our family visited my grandfather...

A strategic plan is a roadmap to grow your business, and these are the 13 sections that will help you identify and achieve your goals.

Lending Club is taking on big financial institutions with its peer-to-peer lending model.

Millennials, and most notably the 20-something generation, are usually portrayed in social media as an unfortunate generation--crowded in part time jobs, propertyless, heavily in debt, and heading back to the empty nest.

Unclaimed property has become a revenue source for states because if the state can't find the rightful owner of the property, it keeps the property. This has made states aggressive in their audit practices.

It never ceases to amaze me. Ever. The "it" I am referring to is how a given brand - who over years has built up an incredible amount of equity in their brand, can do something that puts all that hard-earned equity in pe...

It was 1926, and Frank Bushong had a killer idea.

Coming off the the shutdown/default debacle, House Tea Partiers say they're pissed and plan to talk it out on immigrants by doubling down on killing immigration reform.

Yesterday, CF Industries Holdings (CF) reported that it approved an increase in the company's quarterly cash dividend from $0.40 per share to $1.00 per share, and declared a quarterly cash dividend of $1.00 per common sh...

Awhile ago, I was sitting beside the CEO of a red-hot startup that had recently launched a campaign on Kickstarter.