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Risk mismanagement is everywhere. Many investors (individual and professional), investment advisors and even Wall Street are guilty of overstating, underweighting or misunderstanding risk. As a result, portfolios are bei...

Now in its second year, Sony World Photography Awards' National Award uncovers the best single image taken by a local photographer in countries spanning from Africa, Asia, Europe, Central and South America, to the Pacif...

WASHINGTON -- A new study gives a big boost to fixing a bad aortic valve, the heart's main gate, without open-heart surgery. Survival rates were better one year later for people who had a new valve placed through a tube ...

ODESSA, Ukraine -- Jaded by decades of mismanagement and corruption, Ukrainians greeted the announcement of the International Monetary Fund's assistance package of up to $18 billion with the cautious expectation that it ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A University of Virginia student is seeking $40 million from the state and seven Alcoholic Beverage Control agents who arrested her believing she had illegally purchased beer when she had bought bo...

The fear of starting anything new is very real and very normal. Here's is one simple thing you can do to deal with it.

One of the biggest Texas liquor store chains has reported a security breach that exposed personal information of customers at some of its smaller stores.

Right now the government uses Times New Roman or Century Gothic for the font in all of its documentation. But a 14-year-old student in Pittsburgh, Suvir Mirchandani, discovered that if the feds switch to Garamond — wh...

The recall involves 2008-11 Chevrolet Cobalts and HHRs, Pontiac G5s and Solstices as well as Saturn Ions and Skys. Also, GM tells dealers to stop selling certain Chevrolet Cruze cars.General Motors Co. recalled an additi...

ISTANBUL -- At a noisy, bustling shipyard 20 miles south of Istanbul, the world's second-ever tugboat powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) sits at the end of a pier, awaiting its first water trial. "Then it's off to No...

The list below is from over two decades of observations in first, second and third person. Before publishing I asked over 50 Fortune 1000 CIOs and CTOs to review and comment; their feedback is included. At the core of ev...

The Boston firm J/Brice Design International Inc. has designed more than 200 hotels around the world since it was founded in 1989, and today, the majority of the firm's work takes place in the booming Middle East market....

WASHINGTON - Charter Communications, which was rebuffed last year when it proposed a merger with Time Warner Cable, then lost out to Comcast in a bidding competition for the cable company, is urging the Time Warner Cable...

The automaker plans to reinforce the undercarriage of its Model S sports sedans with high-strength shields, a move that ends a probe into two fires that occurred in the electric cars.Tesla Motors Inc. has announced plans...

Last June, Microsoft, which so often features land mines in its games, learned how it feels to step on one. The company’s gaming division announced that a game’s license could be transferred from one owner to another...

Bitcoin isn't just for buying and selling cupcakes and cameras anymore.     

NEW YORK -- General Motors Co. announced Saturday that it was recalling about 490,000 trucks and 172,000 small cars, meaning the automaker has now recalled about 4.8 million vehicles in the United States during the first...

If you ask someone crippled by polio about the legacy of polio, you would likely hear about the life-altering implications of the horrid disease. When you ask the partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative--Rota...

Some people believe emerging markets are too risky to be investible. We take a deep dive into the concept of risk and how it relates to these markets.

Connected lightbulbs are a nice idea. But what about a connected lightbulb that’s also a Bluetooth speaker? That’s the idea behind the AirBulb, whose developers just started a Kickstarter fundraiser to make this drea...

Google announced some tweaks to its Google Play policies yesterday, aimed at clarifying and clearing up its policies on sexually explicit content, app promotions, and potentially deceptive in-app advertisements.    �...

More details have emerged about the U.S. and British spy agencies’ efforts to surveil targets in Germany — including chancellor Angela Merkel. According to documents leaked by former National Security Agency contract...