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There's a new app from Tribune Digital Ventures. It's called Newsbeat.  You open the app and it gives you a personalized audio newscast.  It starts with weather and traffic conditions, and then dives into news stories ...

China's yuan has weakened to a level that has some folks sweating. The offshore yuan (CNH) exchange rate has fallen to 6.20 per dollar. This comes days after policymakers announced that it would allow the yuan to swing m...

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FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors. We're Far From Euphoria (MarketMinder) Stocks had a record year in 2013, with the S&P 500 returnin...

As navies and media outlets from around the world converge on the Indian Ocean in search of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, some may recall another flight that ended tragically in the same waters. On the evening of Nov. 27...

In the last two years, Facebook and Google have gone from a position of merely being two big, fast-growing players in mobile advertising to dominating it completely. Combined, they have cornered 75.2% of the entire mobil...

Curious about legal weed in Colorado, but confused about the new laws and how to best take advantage of them? Well, then according to a new state website launched Thursday, here's everything you need to know about buying...

Today, March 20, is the first day of Spring in the northern hemisphere marked by the vernal equinox.   The equinox is cool because it's a time of year when the night and day are almost equal.  This awesome GIF of Earth...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Federal Reserve on Wednesday downplayed the unemployment rate as a guide to the U.S. economy's health. But Janet Yellen, the new Fed chair, didn't leave investors in the dark.     

China's largest private steel maker has failed to repay a 3 billion yuan ($3.75 billion) debt, which means yet another high-profile company in China will likely face bankruptcy.

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It was nearly a century ago that a trade union leader said this: "And, my friends, in this story you have a history of this entire movement. First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and wan...

A union-backed advocacy group alleges in a complaint to the state's Department of Health that Walgreens pharmacies in Florida are violating state law by allowing its pharmacists to sit at a table away from the actual pha...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- At her first news conference as Federal Reserve chair, Janet Yellen had a message for the financial world: The U.S. economy may need several more years to fully heal from the Great Recession.     

(Reuters) - Bank of America Corp is laying off workers at its global trading and investment banking divisions, Bloomberg reported quoting three people with direct knowledge of the decision.

Russia's intervention in Crimea has cost it "real economic pain," the United States said Wednesday as it readied a new slew of sanctions to punish Moscow for taking over Ukraine's southern peninsula. "The question at thi...

Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, with cancer support advocates standing behind him, announced Thursday that a deal had been reached that will lead to passage of a bill making expensive chemotherapy drugs in pill fo...

According to our analysis, the company is expected to record revenues of $27.7 billion in 2013, an ~12% year-on-year increase. Late in 2013, the company's management announced its revenue target for 2017 - it expects to ...

During the Q&A today, Fed Chair Janet Yellen said: "[T]he language that we used in the statement is considerable period. So I, you know, this is the kind of term it’s hard to define. But, you know, probably means somet...

Carl Icahn has yet another idea for PayPal. In a statement published today, the activist investor pitched the idea that parent company eBay conduct an IPO of PayPal in which 20 percent of the electronic payments service ...

Some investors preach the importance of making decisions based on data but continue to back startups based on instinct. Now more firms are opting for a data-driven approach.