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A trip to the vending machine will usually yield some pretty unhealthy and unsatisfying snacks.  A Chicago-based entrepreneur is looking to change that with a healthy twist on the vending machine, an experiment he call...

Sometimes companies find themselves on the wrong track. Whether due to flawed strategy, incompetent management or even a handful of small glitches that slow down the entire enterprise; some businesses just need someone t...

During the first days of China's Lunar New Year holiday, the consumer market boomed, despite a fall in luxury gift sales, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said on Wednesday.

Everyone's talking about cigarettes today in the wake of CVS Caremark's huge decision to ban sales of tobacco. Thanks to varying excise taxes, a pack of Marlboro reds runs just under $5 in Kentucky, compared to $14.50 i...

The earliest Superman cover art known to exist -- Fred Guardineer's visage of the Man of Steel from Action Comics #15 -- may bring over $200,000 in Heritage Auctions' Feb. 20-22 Vintage Comics Signature Auction in New Yo...

Ninety-eight gold medals will be given out at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Norway, thanks to dominance in endurance skiing sports, is the favorite to win the most golds. But the U.S. isn't far behind. We compiled the gold me...

Some of you may have made a New Year's Resolution to get more exercise. Luckily, there are plenty of high-tech devices out there that can track your exercise and recommend some better habits.  To give you a head start, ...

Credit-rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded Puerto Rico's general-obligation bonds to junk levels Tuesday, making it even more difficult for the fiscally distressed island to borrow money and dig out from its sever...

Panel to NSA: Change your ways -- or else. "Lawmakers on Tuesday bluntly warned the Obama administration it will lose its sweeping surveillance powers if major changes aren't made at the National Security Agency (NSA)," ...

After compiling a list of more than 100 CEO candidates, Microsoft settled on Satya Nadella a home-grown leader who joined the software maker in the early 1990s. That's back when Google's founders were teenagers and Faceb...

The farm bill is a hard-fought compromise that sets policy over agricultural subsidies, nutrition programs and the food stamp safety net for the next five years.WASHINGTON — In a rare display of bipartisanship, Congres...

There's a lingering misconception out there that deflation will be a problem for Bitcoin, and that will prevent it from widespread use. The argument (which, full disclosure I used to believe) basically goes like this: Be...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Google is awarding its $100 million worth of equity to Eric Schmidt, plus a $6 million cash bonus in recognition of the executive chairman's contributions to the company's performance in 2013.     

A bizarrely realistic statue of a man sleepwalking in his underwear on Wellesley College's campus has left some students unsettled and upset. The sculpture titled "Sleepwalker" is a part of a Tony Matelli's "New Gravity"...

North Carolina considered incentives packages of up to $2.5 billion in its unsuccessful bid to lure a Boeing jet plant, public records obtained by the Observer show.

Conservative pundit Laura Ingraham on Tuesday criticized Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor for claiming the term "illegal alien" is insulting, and that people should instead used the term "undocumented immigrant." "W...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- One of Australia's largest banks faces a multimillion dollar payout to thousands of customers after a judge ruled on Wednesday that late payment fees it charged on credit cards were exorbitan...

Asian stocks mostly bounce back, as the global selloff that has shaken markets in recent weeks pauses.

Real-estate billionaire Sam Zell, the co-founder of Equity Group Investments, defended Tom Perkins' letter and comments this morning on Bloomberg TV in an interview with Betty Liu.   Last month, legendary venture capita...

While there are some nightmare stories about the conditions in Sochi being reported by journalists, so far the Olympic athletes appear to be having a great time. One of the more popular things for the athletes to do upon...

Jamie Kempner, the scion of the Loeb banking family, is hoping to tap his generations-old network of contacts to build a merchant bank that will invest in deals as well as give merger advice.

Interactive -- aka online media and games -- is Disney's smallest earner, but Infinity's success made it the best performing unit year over year.