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KEY POINTS Mobile devices are ideal companions for travelers, allowing them to access information, services and booking while en route. PhoCusWright estimates that by 2015, mobile will account for one-quarter of U.S. onl...

On February 2nd 1848, following a short and one-sided war, Mexico agreed to cede more than half its territory to the United States. An area covering most of present-day Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, p...

New Home prices its shares at $11, markedly less than expected. The home builder's stock rises to close at $12.20.Orange County builder New Home Co. raised $86 million in its Wall Street debut, as the firm and investors ...

The Food and Drug Administration said Friday it is reviewing the safety of popular testosterone drugs for men in light of recent studies suggesting they can increase the risk of heart attack, stroke and death.

The Legislature's Joint Committee on Public Service will hold a hearing Feb. 25 on a recent investment loss at the MTBA pension fund and the fund board's refusal to make records open to the public.     

Many great ideas never go anywhere; many high-potential startups fail because their solution, while elegant, can't be matched to a problem somebody wants to solve.

Last year the number of smartphones shipped worldwide passed 1 billion for the first time, according to IDC, a research firm. In 2010 the four leading smartphone vendors, Nokia, Research In Motion (now BlackBerry), Apple...

You can stick a fork in Restaurant Week.     

Super Bowl parties are the worst, and that's largely because people are the worst. I'm no literary buff, but I'm pretty sure that cramming a couple dozen yahoos into a living room for three hours so they can scream in...

IBM CEO Virginia Rometty and the rest of her senior management team are relinquishing their 2013 bonuses as penance for the technology company's lackluster performance last year.

Earlier this year, Mathematician Ian Stewart came out with an excellent and deeply researched book titled "In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World" that takes a look at the most pivotal equations o...

Just in time for the Super Bowl, the National Football League installed a network of iBeacons in New York City's Times Square and the MetLife Stadium. The plan is to serve up personalized ads and alerts to people through...

The Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks took much different roads on the way to the Super Bowl in terms of how they paid their top players. In addition to Peyton Manning, who is by far the highest-paid player in this yea...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) -- Health officials at a California university will start offering a vaccine against bacterial meningitis several months after an outbreak sickened four students.     

Liz and Kent Swig swiftly scaled the heights of Manhattan real estate and social life. Then the market's walls closed in.     

Did Harry Reid kill the trade agenda?  The Senate Majority Leader is no champion of economic freedom to be sure, but his opposition to the fast track bill doesn’t kill it.  It merely strengthens the hand of his colle...

Last year the number of smartphones shipped worldwide passed 1 billion for the first time, according to IDC, a research firm. In 2010 the four leading smartphone vendors, Nokia, Research In Motion (now BlackBerry), Apple...

The conspicuous dazzle of the games masks a country, and a president, in deepening trouble FEBRUARY 7th sees the opening of the winter Olympics in Sochi on the Black Sea. The message of the games is simple: "Russia is ba...

The world’s biggest retailer is stumbling. Its genial new boss needs to prove he can push through hard changes WALMART is at an "inflection point". Those words are truer now than when Bill Simon, the head of its Americ...

The Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, have cost the nation nearly $50 billion, making them the most expensive Games in history. Much of the work to transform the resort town into a professional outpost for everything fro...

Culture matters in the financial world just like it does on the gridiron, says fund manager Zac Wydra.

Watch out: Wayne's World Syndrome can attack your customer experience initiative (customer-centricity consultant guided or otherwise)