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Olga Graf, a Russian speed skater was very excited after her run that won her a bronze medal in the 3,000-meter. Graf was so excited that she forgot she had nothing on under her tight suit and started to unzip it on the ...

    Curling has become one of the most fascinating events in the Winter Olympics. Team USA member Martin Sather teaches us the fundamentals of the sport, featuring a 45-pound stone sliding on ice, at the Ardsley Curlin...

Odds are you would like to create more time to think about what is important. Here are proven ways to do just that.

A parody coffee shop mocking Starbucks opened this weekend in Los Angeles and is quickly becoming a sensation on social media.  The shop, "Dumb Starbucks," looks nearly identical to the real Starbucks—with the excepti...

Fugitive ex-contractor Edward Snowden took at least 200,000 top-secret documents from NSA servers using a process that was "quite automated," according to a new report from David Sanger and Eric Schmitt of The New York T...

Shaun White caused quite a stir this week when he pulled out of the slopestyle snowboarding competition because he deemed the course to be unsafe. While some have doubted White's claims, it remains true that the Winter O...

Star Oklahoma State point guard shoved a fan in an ugly incident during Saturday's game against Texas Tech. Down 63-61 with six seconds left, Smart found himself in the stands getting taunted by fan Red Raiders fan Jeff ...

Many Winter Olympic sports generate little revenue or sponsorship interest. As a result, a lot of the athletes you'll see in Sochi have day jobs. Some athletes take odd jobs to get by, while others have full-blown career...

As evidenced by a compilation of ads by top brands marketing to Chinese residents of North America during the Lunar New Year, the Nielsen report on Asian Americans may have finally succeeded in convincing corporate Ameri...

A product made of bamboo and charcoal that Eric Rubin originally launched as a car deodorizer has become a best-selling, all-around household item. Rubin, 36, who in 2010 founded Moso...

On Friday, the Wall Street Journal published an excellent Q&A with Tim Cook, CEO of Apple. Cook was coming off his fiscal Q1 2014 earnings call, on which was savaged by investors. The stock fell immediately by 8% after W...

After posting the fastest time of any competitor in training, American skier Bode Miller missed the podium in what was likely the last Olympic downhill race of his career. Miller got off to a dream start, leading the gol...

Taiwan technology giant Foxconn group has signed a letter of intent to invest up to $1 billion in Indonesia as it seeks to diversify production away from China, officials said Sunday. Foxconn, also known by its Taipei-he...

Biotechnology companies, a mainstay of the Triangle economy, have been finding favor with a wide swath of investors. Durham's Argos Therapeutics went public last week, and a second Triangle biotech…

After J.P. Morgan (NYSE:JPM) and Assurant Inc's (NYSE:AIZ) $300 million settlement last year, now Citigroup (NYSE:C) has been told to pay $110 million in a lawsuit to house owners who were forced to pay expensive propert...

If you've ever watched a fashion show and said to yourself, "Those aren't real people out there on the runway," Donna Karan has an answer for that.

Will Yelp help? Yahoo is partnering up with the online review site Yelp to incorporate new listings in its search engine, a person who attended a Yahoo employee meeting Friday told the Wall Street Journal. The plan was u...

If you've ever watched a fashion show and said to yourself, "Those aren't real people out there on the runway," Donna Karan has an answer for that.

Republican lawmakers on Sunday said that Obamacare discourages Americans from working, based on a recently released Congressional Budget Office report. "Anything that discourages work -- and that's essentially what the C...

A new "Starbucks" has opened up in Los Angeles. Ordinarily, that wouldn't be news, but this isn't an ordinary Starbucks -- it's plain old dumb. In Los Angeles neighborhood Los Feliz, a coffee shop named "Dumb Starbucks" ...

IBM, for example, made a similar change in December 2012, received some criticism and moved on. Which begs the question: so what was different here? It's Armstrong and the ham-handed way he delivered this news.

For large consumer companies, TV advertising has always been a core staple in their marketing mix. But how are financial firms leveraging the medium and how do they approach this expensive, if still powerful, tool?