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West Virginia University sociology professor Karen G. Weiss teaches at Playboy magazine's number one party school, which likely gave her same great insight for her new book — "Party School: Crime, Campus, and Communi...

A cinema audience of children waiting to view the hit Disney animation Frozen were accidentally shown a trailer for explicit art house sex epic Nymphomaniac. Parents in the auditorium in Tampa, Florida, reportedly strugg...

The question of who owns a tiny Renoir landscape of the River Seine may rest on a four-page handwritten letter penned 78 years ago by a middle-aged woman in a bad mood. The letter, by the Baltimore art collector Saidie A...

Carl Icahn is stepping up his battle with Apple.  In a new story at Time, he details what he wants to see happen next: Icahn believes the technology giant should share more of its wealth with stockholders. So to push Ap...

We just got the Fed's Beige Book survey of constituent businesses for December. The consensus is that the economy is growing "modestly to moderately," and as a result, the Fed won't its monetary policy trajectory. There ...

The idea of wearing your deceased loved one around your finger or neck might be a little unsettling, but that's exactly what a company called Algordanza does: transform human ashes into a diamond. We first heard about th...

Whenever you buy something with a credit card online, you also have to provide your name, number and address, information seen by the processing banks as well as the merchant. What if you don?t want them to know who you ...

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"Anchorman" star Ron Burgundy, aka Will Ferrell, interviewed Peyton Manning on Tuesday during a segment of SportsCenter. Ron Burgundy and co-star Champ Kind (David Koechner) will host the 6 PM SportsCenter on Thursday. ...

Payments giant PayPal is hoping to coax holiday shoppers’ gift card spending out of brick and mortar stores and into its digital wallet instead. Here’s the catch: only if it’s an Apple iTunes gift card. The eBay-ow...

When you first start your own business, everything is a milestone: First customer. First dollar. First year. But after some time, things level out. You're still growing, but you've been around the block a few times, and ...

While both indices measure the rate of inflation, there is a vast difference in the components

Magnets, mushrooms, monitors and modular green walls may shape the home of the future.

Surf apparel firm also plans to sell other units in a bid to focus on its top 3 brands.Huntington Beach surf apparel company Quiksilver Inc. said it sold its snowboard subsidiary, Mervin Manufacturing, for $58 million an...

The SEC settled with a Miami-based trader charged with insider trading and short-selling violations.

Ptch, a startup that spun out of Dreamworks Animation, has been acquired by Yahoo and will shut down on January 2, 2014, the company announced on its website. Terms were not disclosed. Ptch's mobile video app was launche...

This article is by Allen Bonde, partner and principal analyst, Digital Clarity Group, and advisor, Art+Science Partners; and Loie Maxwell, partner, Art+Science Partners. She is a former Starbucks, Target, and CVS creativ...

On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or as it's affectionately or derisively known, depending on your point of view, Obamacare. Following two years of conten...

Filling the CEO slot at the Microsoft table might be easier than Bill Gates thinks. Have you have noticed that the missing piece of a puzzle is generally right under your nose, which is why you can't see it?

The old adage goes that if you're not paying for a product, then by default you are the product. A perfect example of this is Google and its consumer services - search, YouTube Gmail etc. Google of course makes squillion...

They work hard, concocting wild ideas and products that can take entire industries by storm.  These companies are executing on big ideas that are driving profound change by challenging conventional markets and making in...

Unless you spent yesterday shuttered in a digital media fast, you're probably aware that it was #GivingTuesday, the nonprofit sector's answer to the buy bonanza that dominates the Thanksgiving Day weekend in the lead-in ...