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If you listen to music at work, you're not alone. According to a study by Spotify, 61% of people are streaming tunes during the work day. The most popular music to listen is pop or anything on the top charts (34%) along ...

If you're afraid of heights, stay off 41-story Zumanjaro; Six Flags' newest — and the world's tallest — drop ride. The crew just put the final touches on the ride this past week. It will be ride-ready in New Jersey's...

Earlier this week, we published a list of 50 underrated colleges around the country — one from each state. We partnered with Niche to bring you the top schools in the country with great academics and high acceptance ra...

The last thing you want when you drop a few hundred bucks on a new phone is for it to fail on you within a few days. That's why manufacturers go through lengthy testing processes to make sure every aspect of their device...

Chinese exports unexpectedly fell 6.6% year-over-year in March. This missed expectations for a 4.8% rise, and compares with an 18.1% decline the previous month. Imports were down 11.3% on the year, and missed expectation...

Sometimes a career move is nothing short of brilliant. Like when Eric Schmidt left a struggling Novell in 2001 to become CEO of Google. It was a risk for him. The Internet bubble had just burst and three-year-old Google ...

Obamacare's 3.8% Net Investment Income Tax Could Hit You Hard at Tax Time. IRS Highlights Key Rules

Demand appeared strong among investors ready to look beyond the country's debt crisis.

(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc wants Americans, even those on a budget, to buy more organic food.

NEW YORK -- Hewlett-Packard will pay the U.S. government $108 million to settle charges that former employees paid bribes to officials in Russia, Mexico and Poland.

The iWatch is going to be very expensive, says KGI Securities analyst Ming Chi Kuo in a new note.  Kuo predicts some models of the iWatch will cost over $1,000 when it's out in the third quarter. Kuo's report was writte...

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch recently sat down for a wide-ranging interview with Fortune magazine, his first extended press interview since 2009. He had a busy 2013, spinning off Wall Street Journal parent News Corp. from ...

Jeremy Rifkin's book, The Zero Marginal Cost Society, is at times thrilling, at times encyclopedic, and at times possibly hyperbolic. It is very well-written, it touches on an incredibly wide variety of modern topics, it...

Crude oil jumps above $102 a barrel, highest price in a month, as Ukraine tensions escalate

WASHINGTON -- When the Federal Reserve changed the guidelines for its stimulus campaign last month, it did not change its commitment to supporting the economy, according to an account of the decision that the Fed publish...

Federal Reserve officials are growing concerned the U.S. inflation rate won't budge from low levels, the latest sign of angst among central bankers about weakness in the global economy.

Dozens of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders flocked to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to rail against a Senate proposal that they say would trample on the rights of the mortgage giants' investors, the latest in a frenzi...

Rory McIlroy has started taking his physical fitness more seriously than ever, going to the gym twice a day. He even had to be talked out of CrossFit by his fiancee, Caroline Wozniacki. The results are evident this week ...

A loss for Quebec's separatist party in Monday's election looks like a gain for businesses in Canada and abroad, say analysts. The Canadian dollar ticked up this week after the Parti Quebecois was ousted from the provinc...

Minutes from the central bank's last meeting suggest Fed policymakers aren't as eager to start raising interest rates as investors expected.WASHINGTON — An account of the Federal Reserve's last meeting suggests that po...

Lyft wants you to have the fastest possible experience. So now you can tell Lyft where you want to go before you even step into the vehicle.

More than 20 new limited partners chipped in, including institutional investors, endowments, foundations, and families.