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A massive 8.0 earthquake just struck off the shore of Chile, and a tsunami warning has been issued. One of the first markets to react was the commodities market with copper prices ticking higher. It was a modest $0.02 ju...

A joint military exercise between the U.S. and South Korea has freaked out the North Korean leadership. The annual drill, named Foal Eagle, runs from February 24 to April 18 and features Marines from both countries. Nort...

PHOENIX -- Charles H. Keating Jr., the notorious financier who served prison time and was disgraced for his role in the costliest savings and loan failure of the 1980s, has died. He was 90.     

North Korea's space agency has revealed its new logo, and it looks very similar to the logo of NASA, The Guardian reports. The National Aerospace Development Administration, or NADA, showed off its new logo on state-run ...

April 15th is quickly approaching once again. It's around this time that the state of mind of many small business owners who have not yet filed their taxes shifts from mild worry to panic. The best way to quell this anxi...

Glen Taylor, owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves basketball team, has signed a letter of intent to buy The Minneapolis Star Tribune, the newspaper announced on Tuesday.     

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Pacific Gas and Electric was charged on Tuesday with federal felony counts involving safety violations linked to a 2010 natural gas pipeline explosion that killed eight people in the San Francisco B...

Last week, we reported on an unfortunate incident on the New York Times website, where an Apple ad featuring a deep-sea snorkeler ran right beside a headline about Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 being at the bottom of t...

Three out of four Americans believe marijuana will one day be legal to buy and use anywhere in the United States, according to a public opinion poll released Wednesday. Fifty-four percent of respondents to the Pew Resear...

Gavin Vongkusolkit has spent eight years starting his own businesses in Thailand, some successful, some not. Great preparation if he someday runs his family's sugar and hotel empire.

Ocean Spray Cranberrries Inc. said Wednesday that Peter Dhillon was recently elected to the post of chairman of the board.     

Mobile users love their apps. Of the 2 hours and 42 minutes per day the average U.S. consumer spent on smartphone and tablet iOS and Android devices during the first quarter of 2014, 86% of that time was spent within app...

After launching Lendico, a peer-to-peer lending platform, Rocket Internet announced the launch of its most recent startup Zencap, a digital credit marketplace for small and medium-sized enterprises in Germany. "About 99 ...

Italy is a country known for its cuisine, which is studied, admired and imitated worldwide. When dozens of international state representatives gathered in Rome last week, it was to talk about food, but also Islamic law.

Monsanto Company (MON) reported its earnings for the second quarter of its fiscal 2014 (2QFY14, ended February 28, 2014) before the opening bell today.

It’s pretty clear that marketing automation is no longer just for tech companies. And it’s becoming obvious that it is also not just for medium and large enterprises. But I hadn’t heard of local business adopting m...

Has California's dream of zero-emission electric transit buses turned into something more akin to a nightmare?     

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Intel plans to invest even more in Chinese mobile tech companies     

By Maria Gamb

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