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Investors will be able to focus more on corporate fundamentals as third-quarter earnings season enters its peak week without the distractions of a government shutdown or pending U.S. debt default.

US banking giant JP Morgan is set for a record $13bn (£8bn) fine to settle investigations into its mortgage-backed securities, according to US media reports.

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, k...

Caesars Entertainment Corp. is ending its partnership with Gansevoort Hotel Group to transform Bill's Gamblin' Hall & Saloon into the luxury Gansevoort Las Vegas on the Strip.

Tied to the World Food Prize Foundation's 2013 Borlaug Dialogue, the Skoll World Forum is featuring several keynote speakers writing at the nexus of three subjects central to the global challenges we face in the 21st ...

Although the sigh of relief that the nation wasn’t going to default today was worth a short bounce, the outlook for additional stock market gains seems bleak.  The agreement to open the federal government and raise th...

Every passing month and unanswered résumé dimmed Jim Glay's optimism more. So with no job in sight, he joined a growing number of older people and created his own. In…

Total digital sales are down almost 1 percent so far this year, and some in the industry cite the rise of streaming music services like Spotify and Pandora.     

Miscalculations and miscommunication can lead to some horrible results — especially in the field of science. These eight classic examples may make you laugh, cry, or just shake your head in disbelief. A simple problem ...

The producer Jason Blum's winning movie formula relies on profit-sharing, and he's thinking about applying it to television.     

With consumers expected to spend more cautiously this holiday season, retailers are increasing advertising, discounts and other efforts to attract them.     

Nokero just introduced its next generation of solar-powered light bulbs aimed at impoverished communities--and saving lives.

I posed that question this week to my friend Dr. Phil Windley, an expert technologist, Executive Producer of IT Conversations and a serial entrepreneur. He and co-founder Stephen Fulling have launched multiple ventures t...

In hospital and healthcare settings I'm often asked (as a keynote speaker and consultant on customer service and the customer experience) about HCAHPS and how to improve scores. (A quick digression for the civilians rea...

We've all been there: You land a new client but soon discover he has no idea what your company does -- let alone what he actually expects from working with you. This is the client who pisses off your employees, takes up ...

Procuring the resources needed to make products is a pillar of any business. How much easier would it be if you could simply find them washed up on a beach? Three American entrepreneurs operating in Chile are, apparently...

The following guest post is by Shama Kabani, a business strategist for the digital age, and serves as founder & CEO of The Marketing Zen Group (a full service web marketing & digital PR firm). She is also the author of T...

By Mark Chandler, the general counsel at Cisco Systems

With the U.S. economy?s slow growth in recent quarters, it may seem like nobody?s seeing much business, least of all small firms.

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Monday's session are McDonald's, Netflix and Texas Instruments.

If the deal is finalised, it would be the biggest settlement of its kind ever paid by an American company.

As it prepared a bid to supply taxicabs to Hong Kong, Ford Motor released correspondence in which China's first president invited Henry Ford to China.