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The National Research Council (NRC) put out a new report Tuesday revealing that rape is vastly undercounted in the United States and providing some clues about how the U.S. can more accurately measure sexual assault. The...

This morning's release of new CPI figures showed that, once again, we're seeing pretty tepid inflation. Consumer price inflation fell to 1.0% year over year in October from September's 1.2% rate, well below the level at ...

The auto industry has become so globalized, you can find the same Ford in Detroit and in Beijing. So it's not surprising that Americans' taste in passenger vehicles has become a bit homogenized.  To find how much differ...

While many in the TV and technology world understand how the future of television is being reshaped by the emergence of social TV, second screen viewing and over-the-top streaming, what they don't often know is how many ...

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff says he's blown away by Marissa Mayer's ability to nurture employee talent. So he told her Tuesday night during an onstage interview at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. During t...

For years, American retail icons Sears (NASDAQ:SHLD) and J.C. Penney (NYSE:JCP) had one thing in common: they've been serving the middle class working American consumer, seeking good quality products at reasonable prices...

You have your own specialized brand of intelligence. As do everyone of the people you lead. Inside that intelligence is a background, a learning curve, a constellation of skills and talents that, when tapped, enable you ...

(Reuters) - Philip Morris International Inc plans next year to enter the electronic cigarette business, a $2 billion-plus global market identified by the maker of Marlboro cigarettes as its "greatest growth opportunity".

Ok, ok?I understand that my title borders on an oxymoron. We can no more expect to effectively present ?International Tax for Dummies? then we could ?Quantum Physics for Dummies? or ?Dennis Miller Monologues for Dummies....

While 'wearable technology' might not sound like the sexiest of apparel, startups are getting increasingly hot under the collar about the wrist -- as a great place to begin the gradual cyborg-ification of mankind. Wristb...

Vying for a prime spot on your wrist, a host of new startups want you to wear their new tech inventions on your sleeve.

In some deals there's a winner and a loser, in others there are only losers. Leading a business means coming face to face with decisions that could prove the difference between success and bankruptcy. You'll never know w...

Everyone makes mistakes. But when you run a large business you mistakes can burn a lot of people. Here are a handful of deals gone wrong, foolish negotiations and downright failures from business lore.

Explorations with different styles of QR code beautification.

You signed up for startup life -- the highs and the lows.

In the "sleeves up" third generation of Singapore's Kwees, Evan Kwee gives projects a look.

Now Groupon represents just another smack in the face to brick-and-mortar retailers that have been dealing with such indignities as showrooming, same day delivery, lockers and e-commerce sale projections of $327 billion.

Coin, the startup attempting to make credit cards history by storing financial data in smartphones and replacing multiple cards with one bluetooth-enabled Coin card, has today announced more cards are available for presa...

It's still a good bet that the Tesla Model S and Elon Musk will come through their fire-investigation saga relatively unscathed and even vindicated in the end.

?Mamas don?t let your babies grow up to be cowboys.?

Just as reading habits on the Web have shifted, so too has advertising. No longer are banner ads and overly audacious interruptions appealing to readers of Internet stories. As Justin Choi, founder of Los Angeles startup...

The ten fastest growing technology businesses in the UK have posted phenomenal increases in revenues