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The circumstances by which Hawaii was annexed by the U.S. are so sketchy that Congress felt obliged to issue an apology in 1993. It all started 100 years earlier when a group of mostly American businessmen led a paramili...

The overwhelming consensus prediction on Wall Street for 2014 is that this will be the year the U.S. economy finally takes off, which should translate to a more gains in the stock market and more pain for holders of gold...

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Are you getting ready for retirement in 2014? Here are some official retirement planning numbers that every 2014 retiree should know:     

Your smartphone gives you power when shopping, but danger too.     

Economist Paul Krugman is not one to shy away from a good fight, but he may have vexed his most passionate opponents yet last week with a blog post titled “Bitcoin is Evil.” Krugman’s title is tounge-in-cheek. He d...

With the cheaper price of natural gas compared with diesel, UPS, Frito-Lay and other firms are expanding truck fleets as energy companies build up a network of fueling stations.Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens thinks h...

The media is full of exciting articles about last year's winners. But studies show that a list of the previous year's losers is more likely to be fertile ground for the following year's winners, as they are likely to be ...

It's not how much you make, but what you do with the money you have that counts. Morgan Housel, a senior analyst at financial services company The Motley Fool, made just this point in a recent newsletter on the basic te...

Swaady Martin-Leke, an Ivorian entrepreneur, is tapping the growing market for luxury goods in Africa and abroad with her one-year-old company, YSWARA.

Santa Claus had no last-minute approvals in his sack, and we ended the year with 27 new drugs (Exhibit 1.). This is a significant drop from the 37 we had last year, and a disappointment to many who had hoped that last y...

As of January 1, citizens of Bulgaria and Romania, who joined the European Union in 2007, are officially allowed to work in all of the European Union, including the United Kingdom and eight other western E.U. nations, wh...

Last week I got a call asking me to write a Direct Mail Trends Report ...what I expect to see in 2014. I started to make a list and pretty soon it was almost as complicated as an actual direct mail program. Sorted out si...

Recording artist Alicia Keys is officially on her way out as global creative director for BlackBerry, the Canadian telecommunications and wireless company. Keys has been in place for only a year.

New Fame Game: Leveraging Status to Invest in Hot Deals

By Sarah Vermunt

Hacking has become an ever-present threat for companies, governments, and private citizens alike in the 21st century -- and that means next generation cyber-security firms are hot commodities.

CB Insights tracks venture capitalists and the companies they invest in. According to their data 26 privately held technology companies have a valuation of at least $1 billion (real or rumored).

Though Intel expects its 2013 revenue to be flat, it believes that the macro situation will improve in 2014 as the industry accepts innovative form factors in ultrabooks, convertibles and detachables and the company expa...

When customers ask us for something, our first inclination is most likely to give it to them. Naturally, our goal is to deliver value to those who pay the bills. And the customer is always right, right?

You can do far more with what you?ve got than you realize. And innovation is easier than you can imagine.

There is a paradox of money: You need some to get to where you want to go--but too much may take you someplace you don't want to go (or it may make you sit still when you should be moving).