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Nothing to see here, folks! Streaming music company Spotify revamped an otherwise dull job posting for a financial specialist on Monday after too many references to the Securities and Exchange...

Fourth-in-line to the British crown, Prince Harry, 29, has grown up with his personal tragedies as well as his blunders as the subject of intense media scrutiny. Though it all he has maintained a happy-go-lucky attit...

PARKDALE, Ore. (AP) -- People on the West Coast have counted on fish hatcheries for more than a century to help rebuild populations of salmon and steelhead decimated by overfishing, logging, mining, agriculture and hydro...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Some Connecticut lawmakers have resurrected a proposal from last year to expand the state's workers' compensation law to cover employees who've suffered an emotional or mental impairment after wit...

China has been officially crowned the world's largest gold market for the first time, according to fresh industry figures from Tuesday. The country overtook India as the world's largest consumer of gold in 2013, with con...

BIG DEAL: Ireland's Actavis is offering about $25 billion to buy Forest Laboratories of New York Inc. and leapfrog to become the world's No. 15 drugmaker by revenue.     

YANG YUANQING, Lenovo's boss, hardly spoke a word of English until he was about 40: he grew up in rural poverty and read engineering at university. But when Lenovo bought IBM's personal-computer division in 2005 he decid...

After completing its ongoing $20 million expansion at the Pune plant by May 2015, Haier will start work on the proposed new new plant

Travelers suffered through another difficult day Monday as winter's icy grip caused airlines to delay and cancel more flights.

(Reuters) - Former AIG boss Maurice "Hank" Greenberg's Starr Investment Holdings LLC said on Monday it had agreed to take over health insurance claims processor MultiPlan Inc in what is by far its biggest private equity ...

It's hardly a secret that the heads of major corporations in the United States get mind-bending paychecks. High pay may be understandable when a top executive turns around a failing company or vastly expands a company's ...

Charles Schumer (N.Y.), a top Senate Democrat and member of the body's antitrust subcommittee, appeared to give his blessing to Comcast's purchase of Time Warner Cable, but did not disclose that his brother was involved ...

Despite recent soft jobs data, John C. Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, sees positive momentum in the economy and no need to stop tapering the Fed's stimulus program.WASHINGTON — Brutal...

Good news, coupon clippers. Super Doubles at Harris Teeter is confirmed, according to the HT Facebook page. Here's the start of a long list of freebies and good deals based…

Americans overwhelmingly dislike the idea of having their traffic throttled or blocked. And they're threatening to vote with their feet if Internet providers don't play along. A survey conducted by Consumer Reports finds...

Puerto Rico's government is cracking down on tax evaders to increase revenue and help pay off $70 billion in public debt after recent downgrades put the island's credit rating into junk status, officials said Tuesday.

Herbalife Ltd. shares get an added boost after the bell Tuesday as quarterly results top Wall Street estimates. La-Z-Boy shares decline after a miss.

Add this to the list of things to freak you out: Healthcare organizations of all kinds are being routinely attacked and compromised by increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks.     

The George Washington Bridge lane closures scandal may end up in a courtroom sooner than you think.

By Nicole Hughes It's no secret that reading is the best exercise for your brain. Nowadays, 75 percent of Americans read e-mails with their smartphones. By adding intellectually-stimulating reading material to your inbox...

It takes a leap of faith to unplug. Several senior marketing leaders and CEOs whom I have met think of their lives as an “either/or” proposition where they are either relaxed and unplugged, OR overworked and hyper-co...

The company behind "Candy Crush Saga" is going public, hoping the popularity of its addictive online game will translate to sweet returns for itself and its investors.