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    Richard Branson is famous for his publicity stunts to promote the launch of a business or a project. He has scaled buildings, flown over the ocean with a hot air balloon, and dressed in drag, among other unusual ac...

Investors' appetite proved hearty for the stock-market debut of GrubHub Inc., as shares of the operator of websites and apps for ordering takeout food online rose 31%.

To get access to Africa's burgeoning middle class, some of the world's biggest multinationals are offering potential customers a special incentive -- free cellular airtime in return for filling out a survey or watching a...

In 1995, Disney introduced children everywhere to a Native American princess married 400 years ago today — Pocahontas.  The plot goes that Pocahontas, the beautiful daughter of Chief Powhatan, saves English adventurer...

Entrepreneurs compete for venture capital funds by pitching ideas that change the energy landscapeThat sign in your hotel room that suggests reusing your towel to help the environment? Gary Eden wants to make it a relic ...

An interview is a conversation, not a test. So if the interviewer just accepts the response as "wrong" then both the candidate and the company lose.     

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden and Ukraine's prime minister have spoken by phone in the wake of a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund aimed at stabilizing and growing the Ukrainian eco...

Minnesota Timberwolves forward Dante Cunningham rejoined the team on Saturday, two days after he was arrested and later charged with felony domestic assault for allegedly choking his girlfriend during an argument.

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) -- The Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport is preparing to formally inaugurate a facility that includes a massive tower designed to repair and certify periscopes, submarine communication systems, ...

(Reuters) - Two executives of the Pakistani arm of computer giant Hewlett-Packard Co were arrested by local officials in Karachi on Friday on suspicion of corporate tax evasion, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Martha Stokes, chartered market technician (CMT), co-founder and chief executive officer of TechniTrader, spoke to the International Business Times about a major shift that is currently occurring in the stock market betw...

Earning a Michelin star is an achievement many professional chefs spend their lives working toward.  But amazingly enough, Chef Matt Lambert got his star within four months of opening his own restaurant, The Musket Roo...

3D Systems Corp. (DDD), Stratasys Ltd. (SSYS), ExOne Co. (XONE), and Voxeljet (VJET) have seen their stock prices drop in 2014 after the surge last year.

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A Mexican judge has ordered an end to efforts to revive moribund Mexicana airlines through bankruptcy proceedings, saying no credible new investor had expressed interest in the carrier, officials anno...

There were no bids for Dan Loeb on Friday. Sotheby's stock fell 2.1 percent Friday after the billionaire hedge fund manager and art collector made an impassioned plea to the...

Does the world need yet another housing market indicator? We're already treading water in a monthly numerical flood of data on home sales, mortgage applications, foreclosures and even a survey that supposedly measures wh...

Parents are increasingly struggling to repay federal loans they've taken out to help cover their children's college costs, according to newly released federal data. The Parent Plus program allows parents to take out esse...

LEXINGTON -- Something is happening to Charles Ponzi's former estate that never happened to the famous schemer's house-of-cards investment business: It's getting publicly listed.     

A government investigation has found that the State Department has incomplete files or is missing files for more than $6 billion in contracts over the last six years.

The Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport is preparing to formally inaugurate a facility that includes a massive tower designed to repair and certify periscopes, submarine communication systems, electronic warfare equ...

President Barack Obama praised the people of Afghanistan for turning out in droves Saturday in the country's election to replace outgoing President Hamid Karzai.

Where some see a queue of engineers awaiting private commuter shuttles, one San Francisco startup sees an opportunity to lure talent from top Silicon Valley tech firms.