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The 2014 Winter Olympics are quickly approaching and we will once again see the the best winter athletes competing with advanced equipment and gear. Looking back at some of the earliest Winter Olympics shows us just how ...

Zander Adell is founder of Doorman, a logistics startup that aims to solve the famous "last mile" problem for mail and package delivery. By receiving your deliveries for you remotely and delivering them to your door by ...

Most drug dealers work in cash. That's common knowledge. Yet that well-known fact could soon be relegated to history. As more states adopt less restrictive policies against marijuana and its dealers become licensed busin...

Care.com's Sheila Lirio Marcelo joined a small club when her company began trading Friday: Just 3% of companies that went public between 1996 and 2013 had women CEOs.

P&G, which owns Gillette, says it's 'seeing a slight decline in wet shaving incidence in the U.S.' and launches a men's body razor.American men are experiencing a facial hair free-for-all, embracing the unshaven glory of...

Hiroo Onoda, soldier of the Japanese imperial army, died on January 16th, aged 91 Before he approached the tent where his commanding officer waited on March 9th 1974, Hiroo Onoda did two things. First, he inspected his r...

Boxes containing pigs' heads have been sent to the Israeli embassy in Rome and the city's synagogue, Italian media reported Saturday. The package mailed to the embassy in the wealthy Parioli area of the Italian capital w...

The midsized companies I know that grow solidly year after year share a number of traits. But one is more important than all the others: Their CEOs don’t believe they’re at the mercy of their markets. Though market i...

Building 19, the retail chain that sold "good stuff cheap," may be in the middle of bankruptcy proceedings, but that isn't stopping the company from trying to reinvent itself.     

Business leaders, heads of government, entrepreneurs and even the odd celebrity are rubbing fur and down-quilted shoulders at Europe's highest altitude town, Davos, for the World Economic Forum's annual meeting.

One of the most generous offerings for corporate America in the U.S. tax code is about to become even more bountiful under an Obama administration proposal. The new rules, which are being finalized by the U.S. Treasury D...

Apple is gearing up to roll out its mobile payments system for physical goods and services, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal. The paper's sources claim that iTunes chief Eddy Cue has met with industry...

(NEW ORLEANS) -- Chrysler dealers from around the U.S. seem revved up by the purchase of the U.S. carmaker by Italy’s Fiat SpA. Chrysler dealers at the National Automobile Dealers Association convention in New Orleans ...

The family of an inmate who reportedly made "deep, snorting sounds" for roughly 10 minutes after getting a lethal injection has sued the company that made the drugs, the Associated Press reports. Dennis McGuire's executi...

"Sometimes you'll make a mistake," a chief executive says. "Life happens. But let's not do it again. One of our mantras is 'Find it, fix it, prevent it.'"     

(New York/Amsterdam/Turkey) -- Fear is back in the market. Investors are worried about slower economic growth in China, a gloomier outlook for U.S. corporate profits and an end to easy-money policies in the United States...

The attorney general says the Justice Department will be bringing more cases involving Wall Street misconduct.WASHINGTON — Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr., warning that no bank is "too big to indict," said the Justice De...

In a segment on ABC's World News, Apple CEO Tim Cook flat out insisted that the there was no "back door" that gave the NSA access to snoop in Apple's cloud. But he still thinks the public needs to know more about what th...

NEW YORK -- For marathon shoppers, stopping in at Starbucks is often a quick way to refuel. So where does that leave the cafes as more people decide to shop online from their couches?     

The taxi-hailing service Uber is loved by some, loathed by others. They have a history of aggressive driver-recruitment techniques, and their CEO isn't afraid to publicly squabble with (ex)-customers, but they also offer...

British companies account for the majority of the FinTech50 index of Europe's most exciting financial technology businesses: here's six of the best

Two key technical tools that I rely on in my stock or ETF recommendations are volume (Volume Always Precedes Price) and relative performance analysis. As discussed previously, picking positive-volume stocks that are in t...