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2013 wasn't a good year. It was an incredible year. Entering its fifth year of the bull market, the S&P 500 actually gained steam and booked its best year since 1997. No one saw it coming. The most bullish strategist at ...

It's that time when research analysts and market mavens make predictions for the upcoming year.  Often times these are lighthearted productions with a fair bit of levity thrown into the mix (e.g., "The New York Football...

A lot of hot new startups launched this year. Looking ahead into 2014, Business Insider has identified some of the most promising startups to make a dent in the ecosystem.  Some of these startups are tackling the sharin...

As 2013 comes to a close, people are posting various videos and pictures of their best moments this year. Twitter should be feeling pretty good about how well its video app Vine did this year. It was consistently one of ...

Investors in US equities are celebrating outstanding returns from 2013. So are investors in German equities and, in particular, Japanese. By the close on December 30, those three markets were up, respectively, 29% (S&P 5...

Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today: Former NFL star Terrell Owens reflects on the abuse he received from Philadelphia Eagles fans in a new ad for hamburger chain Carl's Jr.  In the ad, made by 72an...

There are certainly some dumb ways to get yourself fired. The employees on this list are guilty of committing stupid and trivial acts they're surely regretting now. They clearly didn't think twice -- let alone once -- ab...

Southern University beat Champion Baptist College 116-12 on Monday Night. It's a sham and the game never should have been played. Southern plays in Division I while Champion Baptist plays in a league far below Division I...

Looking around a Mexico dotted by Starbucks, Wal-Mart and Krispy Kreme outlets, it's hard to remember the country before the North American Free Trade Agreement, which has dramatically expanded consumer choice and trade ...

Over the weekend, something catastrophic happened in Switzerland: A fire gutted a workshop that rust-proofs the component of a wristwatch that literally makes it tick, halting production for an untold number of weeks. An...

What if we could identify a child pornographer by magnifying his or her reflection in the scared, sad eyes of the victim in the photograph? The law may not have explored these capabilities yet, but research just took the...

U.S. stocks have had an incredible year, with the S&P 500 surging a whopping 29%, something not seen since 1997.  But that's nothing compared with the year stocks have had in Venezuela. Thanks in part to annual inflati...

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Looking around a Mexico dotted by Starbucks, Wal-Mart and Krispy Kreme outlets, it's hard to remember the country before the North American Free Trade Agreement, which has dramatically expanded consum...

(Reuters) - Netflix Inc raised the salary of its Chief Executive Reed Hastings by 50 percent to $6 million for 2014, a regulatory filing showed, as its stock quadrupled in value this year amidst new programming and a gro...

Watch out! China and the U.S., the world's stimulus machines since 2008, will begin to unwind that stimulus in 2014, warns Andy Xie in a Caixin Online commentary.

Among digital media startups, Upworthy is a company that seems to be run by miracle workers. While Buzzfeed and Business Insider took years to build their readerships, Upworthy was able to amass a comparable audience num...

In a nation with a reputation as a tough place to do business, American tech entrepreneurs are importing the Silicon Valley mind-set.     

The City of New York filed a civil lawsuit on Monday accusing FedEx of illegally delivering tons of untaxed cigarettes to city residents from a distributor on an Indian reservation on Long Island.

LEBANON, Tenn. -- Cracker Barrel says it won’t consider selling itself, rejecting a push from its biggest shareholder. The company said Monday that it will continue pursuing its own business...

Months after the collapse of the Rana Plaza complex in Bangladesh exposed abuses in the garment industry, there is no consensus on what responsibility global chains should bear for reform and compensation.     

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