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I Am Not A Virgin, winner of the MakeImpactNYC pitch competition, is creating jeans with eco-friendly denim and a good fit.

A year ago Twitter launched a video sharing app called Vine. It lets you take a six-second video and post it on Twitter and Facebook. It's a really fun app. To celebrate its birthday, Vine posted some of the best, most m...

(Kitco News) - Gold prices enjoyed a late-week surge as concerns about the global economy reinvigorated flight-to-quality buying, building on the recent short-term higher trend seen in the metal.

The Richard Sherman-Erin Andrews post-game interview is becoming the most famous post-game interview of all time. Now, a bunch of little kids have done their own impressions of the interview It's pretty funny (via Fox Sp...

The rout in emerging markets continued as investor concern mounted over how the developing world will cope with the withdrawal of global stimulus.

Investors dumped currencies in emerging markets, underscoring growing anxiety about the ability of developing nations to prop up their economies as they face uneven growth.

U.S. stocks slumped, joining a two-day selloff in global equities, as continued volatility in emerging-market stocks and currencies prompted investors to flee riskier assets.

State Street's quarterly profit missed Wall Street analyst views Friday, and operating expenses climbed, triggering a stock slide.

Toyota recently revealed that the actor Terry Crews ("Brooklyn Nine-Nine") and the Muppets will be starring in its upcoming Super Bowl ad. The new teaser, featuring Crews doing his signature "pec pop" to a song provided ...

Big companies are so worried about risk these days that it is a miracle any of them ever buy anything from a startup. That's probably the reason that people used to say you can never get fired for buying from IBM. But a ...

DAVOS, Switzerland

Last week Mayor Marty Walsh declared to the business community that he will introduce a "new era of transparency" to economic development in the city. I decided to put that to the test.     

Microsoft on Friday apologized for promoting its cloud-computing service, Windows Azure, with a marketing campaign that implied: "So easy, even an older woman can do it." An earlier tweet on its @WindowsAzure Twitter acc...

If you're looking for a job, you might want to consider going to a live taping of "The Daily Show." At the top of Monday's show, Boston University grad Adam Even Engel got a personal on-air job recommendation from Jon St...

How much of a pay cut will J.P. Morgan Chase chief Jamie Dimon take after a tough year for the bank? None at all, the company announced Friday. Quite the opposite, in fact. The bank’s board agreed to pay its chairman a...

KIHEI, Hawaii (AP) -- A surge in shark attacks on Maui over the past year, including two fatal ones, hasn't stopped people from surfing and swimming in the warm ocean waters that surround the Hawaii island. But it has sp...

Robert W. Dudley, the chief executive, says BP is ready to move on from the disaster, focusing on exploration and deal-making.     

How do investors value pre-revenue companies? This question was originally answered on Quora by Leo Polovets.

Alexander Collot d'Escury, the CEO of Desso, a global carpet company, talked with HuffPost Live at the World Economic Forum in Davos Friday about the benefits of a circular economy, in which old products are reused to ma...

U.S. stocks are falling sharply, following a global rout as investors pull money out of emerging markets like Turkey and Argentina and worry about a slowdown in China. Traders shifted money into lower-risk assets like U....

Your job is not to maintain the status quo.

In Davos, I asked Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) her take on the upcoming debt ceiling fight. Now granted, she's a Democrat, and nobody can know exactly what Republicans will do. But her comments about what's like...