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This article is by Jonah Disend, founder and CEO of Redscout.

Marissa Mayer is not the CEO of Yahoo. Mayer is a political operative from Connecticut, who is currently working with Democratic Senate candidate Shenna Bellows in Maine. When Bellows visited Business Insider for an inte...

Women in the U.S. have made great strides in economic independence in the past 50 years, but the most recent progress may have more to do with the lower quality of available jobs than gender empowerment. A new report by ...

As part of the ongoing patent battle between Apple and Samsung, we're getting a lot of juicy details about how the two companies designed their products.  Apple is suing Samsung, claiming that it copied the iPhone softw...

The floor plan of one of the most desirable penthouses on Manhattan's famed Billionaire Row has finally been revealed, and it looks phenomenal. Real estate firm Douglas Elliman released the sketch of the $79.5 million pe...

A look at the best airlines for business travelers in 2014

Traditionally, overtime pay has been mostly limited to hourly wage earners who are able to claim an extra per-hour fee for any time worked over 40 hours in a week. Currently, regulations have limitations on employees who...

Literally everything around us is made up of chemicals. That includes all foods. And the different kinds of chemicals they contain give the stuff we eat their flavors, colors, and smells. On the blog Compound Interest,...

The Ethiopian government has been on a public relations offensive to persuade its Egyptian and Sudanese neighbors that a $4.2 billion mega-dam project on the Nile river will be helpful, not harmful. Officials in Egypt an...

Countries across Asia are vying to emulate Macau's success as a gaming destination, but they're following Singapore;s model for casino development.

A Maui group says it has submitted more than 9,500 signatures in support of a temporary ban on growing or testing genetically modified organisms in Maui County.

The development kit lets you build custom apps for controlling Red's digital still and motion cameras through an iOS/Android mobile device, Windows PC, or microcontroller.

Amazon unveiled its new streaming TV box last week, the Fire TV. This product is joining a very crowded market.  Roku, Apple TV, and Google's Chromecast are all vying for your attention. Check out the chart below to dec...

American Apparel has built one of the most popular brand Instagram accounts, with nearly 1 million followers, and its success goes beyond risqué photos. In fact, the brand, which is known for print ads and billboards f...

What makes a great job candidate these days? You may be surprised to hear what the folks at Google think.

The world's biggest smartphone maker is counting on the fifth version of its Galaxy S smartphone to prove its staying power as a mobile innovator.

The Ford Motor Company is recalling nearly 435,000 cars and S.U.V.s to fix rusting frame parts or faulty seats.

Japan's central bank has refrained from expanding its ultra-loose monetary policy despite a sales tax hike, saying the economy is recovering moderately.

We are nearing the end of the first quarter of 2014, and now more than ever there is an "entrepreneurial explosion" in which new companies are disrupting every niche of every industry.

Here are the core portions of Comcast's argument that might actually sway the Senate committee members into believing this merger is a genuinely good thing for the country.

In the foreword of an upcoming book about the video game industry, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg write about how games affected their formative years.