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China's surveillance networks are believed to be some of the largest and most ambitious in the world — in just a decade, the country has gone from having virtually no surveillance cameras to some 20 million, accordin...

The job of Victoria's Secret model is a coveted one: The company gives its annual fashion show and the models who walk in it credit for billions of dollars in annual sales.  Beside these powerhouse models are their sup...

The companies the best entrepreneurs start are as unique as they are. How they think, however, is remarkably similar across-the-board.

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Monday's session are Twitter, News Corp and Sotheby's.

Starting with the premise that health-insurance companies should relieve, not create, headaches, a group of venture capitalists and health care professionals believe they have the right prescription. Josh Kushner of...

Tesla's stock has been getting crushed lately in the wake of three separate incidents where a Model S has caught on fire, but one of those owners has taken to the company blog to defend Tesla and vowed he would "buy ano...

What do you call an entrepreneur that's also a micro-entrepreneur, and leveraging sharing economy websites to generate income needed to support their startup ventures? A new classification is needed to describe this grow...

CNBC Andy Joseph received a welding engineering degree from Ohio State University. This clean-shaven, buttoned-down Midwestern father of five likes making things, but he never expected to be selling those things to the m...

NHPC had floated bid for forming joint ventures with those developers who have sites awarded to them

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U.S. manufacturers added more jobs last month than they had since February, but job gains in the sector continue to be below the expectations of some economists. And recent industry data from Sageworks, a financial infor...

Vodafone India MD says like everyone else, the telecom industry too has to increase the prices

Wording glitch in law at issue; state has yet to create market for trading renewable energy creditsShawn Temple, a development director for Weston Solutions, said he has manufacturers, grocery chains and retailers intere...

Forbes: Professional keynote speaker Micah Solomon on how to hire and get the most out of professional speakers for your event.

Including Twitter, 19 tech firms have chosen to go public on the NYSE in 2013, while Nasdaq has won only 14 listings so far

Goodbye, Thanksgiving. Hello, Thanksgetting. The economy is still hurting, and this holiday shopping season will be hurt by another thing nobody can do anything about -- it's so darned short....

Morgan Stanley and Evercore are getting down to business this weekend. The two banks working on the hottest media auction in town, IMG, are set to cut their list of...

Steven Cohen may be about to join a new level among the elite money managers handling tens of trillions as a condition of his $1.8 billion civil settlement. Cohen's SAC...

Nowadays social media are getting all the buzz. Look no further than Twitter's spectacular IPO Thursday or Facebook's move into mobile. But they aren't the only ones innovating out West....

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As a vocation, "professional speaker" has a curious ring to it.

Chicago is a great city, a peculiarly American city. Carl Sandburg's City of Broad Shoulders, it is the old and the new Mayor Daley, Studs Terkel and Mike Royko. It is an architect's city, big, friendly and Midwestern.