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If you're involved with a major drug cartel, you might not want to plaster your exploits on social media. Recently police arrested Jose Rodrigo Arechiga Gamboa, who is allegedly the top enforcer for Sinaloa cartel No.2 I...

Kia unveiled its new concept sports car at the Detroit Auto Show this week, and the GT4 Stinger is a far cry from the low-end models (advertised by dancing hamsters) the brand is best known for. The rear-wheel drive conc...

BMW AG is rolling out a new model for its retail sales to "future-proof" its distribution. Translation: Make sure its dealerships don't become obsolescent, says Peter Miles, executive vice president of the company's Nor...

One of the big stories on Wall Street lately has been the investment banks cutting back the amount of hours their junior employees have to work.  Long hours on Wall Street for junior bankers came under scrutiny after 2...

Web design trends come and go every year, and it's important for designers and business owners to keep up with them in order to stay up-to-date and avoid having an outdated website. Although minor trends pop up all the t...

On 1/16/14, SLM Corp.'s 6.97% Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock, Series A (NASD: SLMAP) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.8712, payable on 1/31/14. As a percentage of SLMAP's recent share price...

Toyota started the Detroit Auto Show with a bang this morning, unveiling a concept sports car that's so far the craziest thing we've seen in 2014.  Toyota says the new FT1 (for Future Toyota) represents a desire to make...

During her presentation last week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced the introduction of Yahoo Advertising, a consolidated advertising suite that brings together the company...

Dale Mortensen, who won the Nobel Prize for his research on supply and demand in the labor market, died last week at the age of 74, leaving economic academia without one of its foremost labor market scholars of the past ...

The U.S. Gulf of Mexico has proved to be a bright spot for oilfield services companies over the last year or so, owing to resurgent drilling activity and an increase in capital spending in the region. Many large oilfield...

Eleven major employers in Florida support a legislative proposal for LGBT workplace protections in the state.

We are overextended and due for a down year based on history.

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and state attorneys general are expanding a probe of for-profit colleges and their student lending practices.

A year ago, Cuba approved a groundbreaking immigration reform that allowed Cubans, for the first time under the Communist regine that has ruled the island for five decades, leave the country. And, contrary to popular bel...

A two-door ATS may help General Motors do battle with luxury compacts from Germany.     

A new 15-minute at-home test for Alzheimer's found that 28 percent of those 50 and older had cognitive impairment. Take it yourself to find out where you stand.

Want to get a head start on what angel and venture capitalists are looking for in 2014? Here are some sectors we hear whispers about from investors:

The Internal Revenue Service is one of the biggest losers in the 2014 budget deal agreed to last night by House and Senate negotiators. Under the agreement, the service would get just $11.3 billion, which is $526 million...

How do you turn a talent for baking into a business? Camilla Stephens, award-winning founder of the hugely successful Higgidy pie company, tells how she started with one oven and now produces 150 miles of made-from-scrat...

Google's decision to buy Nest for $3.2 billion is fascinating to intellectual-property experts, who see indirect gains here for patent king Nathan Myhrvold and his firm, Intellectual Ventures.

Japanese spirits giant Suntory has acquired American bourbon whiskey company Jim Bean for a deal valued at some $16 billion. The horizon for the spirits industry shows promising developments on the opposite side of the s...

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