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Health insurance is becoming the most sought after product due to rising medical costs

The deal to buy out the parent company of Chuck E. Cheese contains a number of provisions which seem to suggest that Apollo is concerned about a competing bid or a challenge, Steven M. Davidoff writes in the Deal Profess...

Jezebel's tagline is "Celebrity, Sex, Fashion For Women. Without Airbrushing" so it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that the site felt a need to track down the un-retouched images from Lena Dunham's controversial ne...

In Raleigh, North Carolina, the house on Wade Avenue has no driveway, walkway or lights. If you were to try to get through the front door, you would hit a brick wall. If it's not a house, then what is it exactly? Some R...

Haribo's sugar-free gummy bears have a solid, three-star rating on Amazon.  But as Michael Rusch at Buzzfeed points out, the negative reviews are terrifying enough to keep customers away forever.  The bears seem to giv...

SOME lawmen chase villains down mean streets. Others chase fraudsters across balance-sheets. In the stomach-churning stench of the Vetport at John F. Kennedy International Airport, yet others don surgical masks, goggles ...

Nintendo said on Friday that sales of its Wii U game consoles had flopped, raising questions over its future in a market increasingly dominated by Sony and Microsoft.     

Anyone who regularly uses public transportation in New York City is familiar with impromptu performances. Someone might start singing, rapping, dancing or ranting, and will usually give a full routine whether anyone care...

Officials at the U.S. Mint have been looking into cheaper ways to make our smallest coins, Fortune reports, and the latest cost-saving proposition is a brown nickel made out of a copper alloy. The coin would be the same ...

Morgan Stanley says its earnings fell in the fourth quarter as it was hit by legal costs related to mortgage-backed securities.

Ever since the real estate bubble burst in the United States in 2007, observers have pointed to Canada as an example of a well-regulated financial system that has avoided many of the regulatory mistakes that helped lead ...

The Tunisian government is losing a major chunk of public revenues due to "informal trade" - or smuggling over the Libyan and Algerian borders. The World Bank estimates that this illegal transport of goods is worth more ...

Ryan Shank of Mhelpdesk helped his young startup land the kind of deals some first-time founders believe are out of reach. Here's how.

Sales are the most important part of your startup. Don't let these shortcuts hurt you in the long run.

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) -- A Pakistan Railways official says a bomb blast has targeted a train, killing three passengers.     

If you've got a bun in the oven and $600 to spare, you can 3D-print the fetus of your little sweetheart.  Send 3D Babies your ultrasound and a fat check, and the company will send you a custom, life-size figurine of you...

Le Laboratoire, the lab that made the oPhone — a phone that emits various smells to music — is hosting a special competition in London this October.  Attendees of Wired Magazine's annual conference will be invited t...

It's not just about how much you sock away for retirement, it's also about how rapidly you'll need to tap those reserves.

Factors include larger-than-expected losses racked up while selling unwanted assets during fourth quarter.

The following post was published on the Knowledge@Wharton website on January 14, 2014.

In a nutshell, the question is whether startups should focus on building out the user base, or developing a revenue stream. On the one hand, revenue is obviously what investors ultimately care about, but the issue is whe...

As Day Z racks up a million sales in four weeks, Steam once again demonstrates its ability to make a game - even a game its creator is warning casual players not to buy. I asked indie developers for their experiences of ...