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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.     

Shares rise on expectation of government boost despite weakest growth rate in key sector for eight months

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...

Shares in Techtronic Industries, the power tool maker whose chairman Horst Julius Pudwill debuted on the latest Forbes Billionaires List this month, gained 11% at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange last week amid signs of stre...

(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 ...

The sanctions imposed by the West against Russia over its annexation of Crimea are already taking a bite out of the Russian economy, and those effects are likely to deepen in the coming months.     

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 stock has gained around 45% since October despite dismal performance of the company in the December quarter

(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.

Australia's inflation rate and cost of living are both at record lows, just don't expect anyone to believe the official figures

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...