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Fifty years ago yesterday, the World’s Fair opened in Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, N.Y. The event was a watershed moment for 1960s America, which was still putting the assassination of President Kennedy in the pa...

Posh pub and fancy fishing shack among winners as luxury vacation mag Conde Nast Traveler crowns its favorite new venues.

Paul Wallace has made a business out of his video passion. Jim Boulden reports.

Apple is probably the best company in the world at consistently releasing major updates that work well and are adopted by the majority of its customers. Developers get updated on the latest versions of iOS and Mac in Jun...

Last year, GitHub appeared to be the perfect Silicon Valley startup. After essentially bootstrapping for four years, it accepted a $100 million investment from hot venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. It boasted tha...

Seventh Generation, the Burlington, VT-based maker of environmentally friendly laundry detergent, trash bags and diapers, takes its name from an Iroquois law that says, “in our every deliberation we must consider the i...

Apple is moving more of its stores to renewable energy, and all its data centers are now in line with that guideline.

The Internet Of Things will make many of the familiar devices and objects in our lives — from door locks to toll booths to refrigerators — suddenly Internet-connected, smartphone- and tablet-accessible, and responsiv...

Facebook is rumored to be preparing to announce an all-encompassing mobile ad network. The rumors already have Google and Apple scrambling.

Drivers in the U.S. are facing rising gasoline prices ahead of summer-vacation season, just as refiners here are shipping more gas to other countries.

Japanese Economics Minister Akira Amari said Tuesday that he sees significant distance toward a broad agreement on trade with the U.S., something that is seen as vital to a wider regional pact, Reuters reported.

General Mills reverses course on right to sue after backlash by consumers.General Mills, maker of Cheerios and Wheaties, thinks it deserves credit for reversing itself after quietly trying to strip customers of their con...

AQR Capital's Chief Investment Officer describes his unique quant strategy.

The Sensex touched a lifetime high of 22,812.36 and Nifty hit an all-time high of 6,829.4 in early trade

Some people who pay private student loans on time are being placed in default when the co-signer of their loans dies or declares bankruptcy, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said in a report due out Tuesday.

High court justices take a dim view of Coca-Cola's selling juice labeled as pomegranate-blueberry that is mostly apple and grape juice. WASHINGTON — In a case that could strengthen truth-in-labeling laws, Supreme Court...

Despite the Chinese leadership's austerity measures and recent reports of weak profits from Chinese car makers, the country's biggest car show opened to much buzz.

The problem for Iraq now: How to export its plentiful oil amid bureaucracy, corruption and violent attacks.

At the Rising Tide Car Wash in Parkland, Fla., most of the employees have one thing in common: they've been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders.As young adults they began to age out of the school system, with employ...

The FBI warned Boston-area businesses and academic institutions earlier this month of "scams involving malicious [Russian] venture capitalists."

"The Internet is changing the future of business and entrepreneurship. Never before have people been so empowered to build global businesses with huge flexibility," said Tencent USA chairman David Wallerstein in a state...

The feds are set to begin slapping app developers and mobile game companies with hefty fines for violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act starting any day. And software startup AgeCheq’s software soluti...