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A 1970s office building across the street from a light-rail station in El Segundo has sold for $11.3 million to Los Angeles investors who plan to boost its appeal to tenants in creative fields.     

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Baton-wielding riot police on Monday cleared Taiwan's Cabinet offices of scores of angry protesters opposed to a trade pact with China, escalating tensions over the island's rapidly developing ties...

Los Angeles has the highest average price at $4 per gallon, while Billings, Mont., comes lowest at $3.18

(OKLAHOMA CITY) -- An Oklahoma City girl who says she asks everyone she meets to buy Girl Scout cookies has broken the organization’s decades-old sales record by a margin about the size of a Thin Mint. Katie Francis of...

J.C. Penney's reinstalled CEO Mike Ullman is poised to get a big pay increase as the department store chain shows some signs of a turnaround.

NEW YORK (AP) -- J.C. Penney's reinstalled CEO Mike Ullman is poised to get a big pay increase as the department store chain shows some signs of a turnaround.     

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The gonzo journalism outfit Vice Media may soon try to go public while the IPO market is still frothy, company CEO and co-founder Shane Smith said in an interview with Bloomberg that was published today. "We're throwing ...

Aerie's target demographic is big but its geographical reach is limited, which suggests good scope for expansion. The brand has performed relatively better than the company's mainline business in recent quarters, despite...

Consistently, one of the more popular stocks people enter into their stock options watchlist at Stock Options Channel is Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ). So this week we highlight one interesting put contract, and one inte...

Text messages between South African Olympic track star Oscar Pistorious and Reeva Steenkamp, the girlfriend he shot on Valentine’s Day 2013, show a contentious relationship, CNN reports.  The texts suggest Steenkamp w...

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- A hairstyling business closes four salons rather than deal with crooked tax officials. An independent salesman hustling paint from the trunk of his car faces a $5 million tax penalty. A humble craft...

The Food and Drug Administration is weighing the benefits and risks of two experimental colon cancer screening tests which use DNA from a patient's stool to detect dangerous tumors and growths.

(Reuters) - Apple Inc is in talks with Comcast Corp to enter into a deal for a streaming-television service that would allow Apple set-top boxes to bypass congestion on the web, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing p...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Asian stock markets were higher Monday as investors focused on signs of strengthening overseas demand in an otherwise weak China manufacturing survey.     

Copper prices have been tumbling on concerns about China's economic slowdown and an unwinding of copper-backed loans.  But Sijin Cheng at Barclays writes that grid spending could "help dispel" concerns about Chinese cop...

In about an hour, New Yorkers can do their laundry and their taxes too, free wash included...

China's wealthiest man, Wang Jianlin, continues to spread his wealth into new markets, this time by acquiring a landmark building in Madrid for €260 million ($358.6 million) according to a leading Spanish politician.

North Carolina lost to Iowa State 85-83 after a clock snafu in the final seconds led to an abrupt ending. DeAndre Kane put the Cyclones up by two with 1.6 seconds left. On UNC's next possession, there were two clock issu...

Connect with leaders from the companies in this story, in real life: Come to the fourth annual VentureBeat Mobile Summit April 14-15 in Sausalito, Calif. Request an invitation. Box has decided to go public ahead of key c...

Demandbase stands out because it's targeting a niche but lucrative market with a tested enterprise platform that companies are paying to use.     

Investors will soon be able to order shares of GrubHub for roughly the price of one of the online food delivery service’s meals. The Chicago-based company filed for an initial public offering in February but announced ...