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People invest for many reasons. As a hobby, for their ego's sake or to meet a medium-term goal, such as paying for college.

This is Christ the Redeemer, an iconic statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Nearly 4 million people visit the statue every year. However, recently the statue was struck by lightning and suffered an injury...

Three founders from Forbes' list of America's Most Promising Companies gather at the Aileron Institute to discuss the art of hiring, firing and retaining talent.

When I test drove the 2014 Cadillac CTS a few months ago, one of the few things I griped about was the small side view mirrors. "While they meet DOT standards," I wrote, "visibility should be better."  Turns out the Eu...

The housing boom in Australia is spreading beyond Sydney. The price increases have fueled debate over whether the country's central bank should raise interest rates to keep the market from overheating.

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I am an incredibly curious person. I am also, at least I like to think I am, a very well-read person, particularly when it comes to the world of marketing and advertising.

Apple was the most actively traded stock every month of 2013.

Heavy sales promotion, combined with a weak consumer spending environment in the last three months, led to a 0.9% annual decline in Best Buy's domestic comparable store sales.

Leading up to Discover Financial Services' announcement of its fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday, January 23, 2014 analysts have become more wary as expectations have fallen over the past month to earnings of $1.18 per...

Renowned astrophysicist and StarTalk Radio host Neil deGrasse Tyson has some pretty wild ideas for how we should improve the human body, but he turns serious as he explains how we should appreciate the fragility and fini...

Clay Mathile, the billionaire former Iams CEO, and Joni Fedders, president of Aileron, sit down with YesVideo's Michael Chang to talk about innovation.

How to Minimize Fallout from an IRS Audit? Consider Getting Injured Or Having Sex.

(Reuters) - IBM missed revenue expectations for the fourth straight quarter as it grappled with weakening demand for servers and storage in emerging markets such as China. Shares in the world's largest technology service...

Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway will pay $1 billion to the person who correctly guesses the winner of every game during the NCAA men's basketball tournament.Think you can guess the winners of all 67 games in this spring's N...

Yahoo has bought a marketing tech startup called Sparq and will promptly shutter it, the startup announced on its site Tuesday. Terms of the sale were not disclosed but this likely wasn't an expensive buy for Yahoo. Spar...

Michigan Republican National Committeeman Dave Agema, who has been criticized for anti-gay and anti-Muslim comments, is not attending the RNC's winter meeting in Washington, D.C. and blames his absence on "liberal critic...

On January 14, uTest – customers of its in-the-wild app testing services include Google, Microsoft, Amazon, USA Today, Rolex, Box and Runkeeper -- announced that it had closed a $43 million Series E round of funding -...

LegalZoom, the online legal-services firm, announced earlier this month that it had dropped its plan to go public and instead will sell a controlling stake to Permira, the U.K. private-equity firm that also owns brands l...

Whether you deal with sales prospects yourself or manage a team of sales reps, getting a complete view of your company?s sales pipeline is no easy task. In this post I will show you how to set up a simple and (almost) fr...

Most people know of David Robinson as a legendary NBA basketball player. Since he retired back in 2003, he's become a philanthropist, venture capitalist and advisor. During his time on the San Antonio Spurs, he won two N...

Investors and business people should read the 73-page Pennsylvania Energy Plan just released by my former boss, Governor Tom Corbett.