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Hilton Worldwide's CEO says the hotel company expects to introduce a new brand in 2014 aimed at affluent, young travelers by emphasizing style and design.

Sprint, the third largest wireless carrier in the U.S., is considering a $20 billion bid to buy T-Mobile next year, according to The Wall Street Journal. T-Mobile is the fourth largest carrier and the smallest of the "bi...

The non-human web has overtaken the human web, according to new data from Incapsula, which tracks bots on the web. The non-human web is made of search engine crawlers, spammers, hackers, scrapers, and impersonators.   T...

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and UBS have also been hired

Aereo, the upstart online video company that’s become the bane of big TV broadcasters, didn’t use the words immortalized by Clint Eastwood‘s “Dirty Harry” in its Supreme Court filing, but the message is clear. ...

As affiliates of the United Automobile Workers, New York University graduate teaching and research assistants will make up the only such union in the country recognized by a private university.     

Turkish billionaire Rahmi M. Koç acquired the Merrill-Stevens boatyard with minority partner John Spencer with plans to continue operating the yacht repair facility.

Tequila gets a bad reputation for being the fuel behind hazy drunken nights and rough mornings, but it doesn't have to be that way. Our friends at FindTheBest have compiled a list of the best bottles of tequila you can b...

Gains from Adobe Systems Inc.,Twitter Inc. and chipmaker ARM Holdings grab attention from investors Friday as the tech sector looks to close the week out on an upbeat note.

The entry-level PocketSurfer 5 smartphone costs `3,499, while the upper-end model is priced at `6,499

For years, protesters in Thailand have used social media to organize rallies. Now they're taking smartphones to a new level.

The workforce reduction, part of a companywide restructuring, will affect those in Boeing's R&D unit in Long Beach, Seal Beach, Huntington Beach and El Segundo.Aerospace giant Boeing Co. announced that it would reduce it...

Southeast Asian nations welcome Japan's efforts to nurture closer security cooperation, given China's growing assertiveness, though they hope the two powers will mend their frayed ties, Indonesian President Susilo Bamban...

The soft-drink company said it would divide its North American business in two divisions, including one to manage its bottling operations.     

ATLANTA (AP) -- Coca-Cola is shuffling its executive ranks and organizational structure at its North America business, which has struggled with a decline in soda sales.     

General Motors has sold Chevrolet vehicles in Europe through the Great Depression, World War II and the partition of the continent by the Iron Curtain. What the automaker could not weather was Europe's current blend of e...

On Tuesday, General Motors named their new CEO, current senior vice president for global product development Mary Barra. Barra will be the first female CEO of a major automaker. The announcement of her appointment procee...

The twosome behind The Partnership Resource provides valuable conflict-resolution for small businesses while practicing what they preach.

A Series of Forbes Insights Profiles of Thought Leaders Changing the Business Landscape: Poojan Kumar, Co-Founder and CEO, PernixData...

The squinch is the latest rage, thanks to photographer Peter Hurley, who has shown in a recent YouTube video how it can immediately make celebrities and mortals alike more photogenic.

Whatever happened to 1995-style tax reform? That year, Republicans gained control of both the House and Senate. Rep. Bill Archer, who took over the chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee, was deeply committed...

Is Palantir's recent (December 2013) $9B valuation reasonable?