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Almost 800 million users, Apple is eyeing mobile payments system to take advantage of the millions of credit cards stored in iTunes.

A 10-year-old girl at the White House for the annual "Take our Daughters and Sons to Work Day" tried her best to get her father a job, handing Michelle Obama his résumé after being called on during a question-and-ans...

    Shaving your head is a great style choice for men, and you don't have to be intimidated when you go under the razor. Business Insider's entertainment reporter, Frank Pallotta, was in need of a fresh cut, so we stop...

CEOs are known for pulling in a pretty penny. But doctors make even more. That's right: On average, those sporting scrubs and stethoscopes bring home fatter paychecks than those donning suits and ties, according to the l...

Prince George — Kate Middleton and Prince William's first offspring — is just 9 months old and already being "digitally enhanced" with photoshop on magazine covers. As PageSix points out, George boasts "emerald gre...

When Irving Fain quit his job to found CrowdTwist, a consumer loyalty engagement platform for brands in 2010, he ran up against some big roadblocks. First, the Series A-funded TechStars startup had to figure out how to g...

For all the talk of how the Great Recession has driven people -- particularly the "footloose young" -- toward dense urban centers, the data actually reveals that Americans continue to move largely to the same generally s...

Lone Star oil production has more than tripled since 2007, closing in on 3 million barrels per day.

Wetlands are vibrant ecosystems that provide critical wildlife habitat, storm protection and water filtration. Between the mid-1950s and the mid-1970s, natural processes and human activities resulted in the net loss of m...

Here's of five Indiegogo's most successful campaigns led by women.

Alibaba and its bankers are discussing adding new shares to the company's IPO, a move that would allow the e-commerce giant to raise funds for itself and could push the size of the deal to a record.

Netflix has reached an agreement with three cable companies that, for the first time, will let U.S. subscribers watch the streaming video service as though it were an ordinary cable channel. The deal will add Netflix as ...

Former Tumblr president John Maloney has found a new home as president of mobile news startup Circa. Maloney hasn’t had an official role at another company since he stepped down from as president at Tumblr in 2012. His...

The Washington Post is reporting that the federal government is in talks to take over the Oregon health exchange. This news comes after many failed attempts at launching state-based exchanges, with more than 25% of the s...

A look inside homes around the globe that feel like they're on top of the world.

U.S. manufacturers have grown more competitive over the past decade compared with factories in China, Brazil and most of the world's other major economies.

Japan and the U.S. have made headway in trade discussions, but they haven't achieved the deal they were hoping to seal at a bilateral summit, Japanese Economy Minister Akira Amari said Friday, Reuters reported. "This tim...

Global commodity investors are turning more positive toward China as the country continues to import massive amounts of resources like iron ore, copper and soybeans even as economic growth slows.

Nearly two dozen groups have paid a $1 million application fee for the chance to open a casino in upstate New York, according to information released Thursday by the New York State Gaming Commission.

Four major tech companies including Apple and Google have agreed to pay a total of $324 million to settle a lawsuit accusing them of conspiring to hold down salaries in...

She’s still alive and working, but not many people remember Régine Zylberberg anymore. Forty years ago, everyone, especially the “glitterati,” knew her as Régine, owner of a chain of the coolest and most expensiv...

The company's forte is the 15-second video ad that runs in apps on iOS and Android devices, and it reports more than 100 million people watch its ads every month.