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Google has reached a legal settlement with European antitrust regulators that will change the way it displays shopping ads. The Europeans believe the deal will lessen Google's dominance of online advertising and improve ...

The reaction was slow in coming, but financial markets and corporate bosses have been jolted awake to China's relentless growth decline and are scrambling to cope with wrenching changes in…

It's a crisis that pits the public's need to know vs. protecting the profitability of an industry. In a recent article by the trade publication World Poultry, poultry producers in China are deeply concerned about the med...

A new analysis of America's prison demographics has revealed for-profit prisons jail minorities even more disproportionately than publicly operated prisons. For-profit prisons — like those operated by Corrections Corpo...

The following tax-exempt fixed-income issues are scheduled for pricing this week.     

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Democrats are determined to cast an election-year spotlight on Republican opposition to raising the minimum wage and overhauling immigration laws. To try to accomplish that in the GOP-controlled ...

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Sunday called on House Republicans to pass immigration reform and said that the GOP needs to pass immigration reform to fulfill any hopes of winning a national election. "States like mine, over...

After Oaksoon Callahan graduated from college, she had the choice between working at ExactTarget's trendy orange-splashed Downtown offices or at a more traditional white-walled suburban financial institution in the subur...

Target ignored a request for a more thorough review of security on its point-of-sale systems two months before a hacker stole 40 million credit card numbers from the retailer, the Wall Street Journal reports: At least on...

Miami-Dade commissioners will consider a proposal to create an oversight committee for public funds to improve Jackson Health System.

The soap opera characters are wrestling not only with their emotions, but also with basic Downtonomics: the threat and promise of technological change, burden of inheritance taxes, foreign investment, danger…

A rolling borderland of onion farms and strip malls provides a test tube of sorts for observing how the minimum wage works in daily life.     

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Kickstarter has been hacked and an unknown number of user accounts' personal information has been accessed, reports Recode. The damage is not financial — no banking or credit information was exposed. But personal detai...

Never mind the fashion: Vivienne Westwood has it down to a T. More importantly, the veteran designer wants to talk about fracking and the floods wreaking havoc in Britain.

Pastor Jamie Coots, one of the stars of National Geographic's "Snake Salvation," died on Saturday after he was bitten by a snake, police told WBIR. Coots was allegedly bit while handling a snake at his Pentecostal church...

Never mind the fashion: Vivienne Westwood has it down to a T. More importantly, the veteran designer wants to talk about fracking and the floods wreaking havoc in Britain.

WASHINGTON

On the streets of Rome, Italians are waiting. Waiting for their new government. A series of political maneuvers has the country expecting the president to officially announce yet another Prime Minister.     

All startups hit the trough of sorrow. Here's how one company survived the accelerator trough of sorrow.