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Twenty-eight years after the utterly devastating Chernobyl nuclear accident, a Reddit user has provided a harrowing account of growing up in the shadow of the disaster. That user, CCPKA, did an eye-opening "Ask Me Anyth...

An income tax cut seemed inevitable just two months ago, as Gov. Rick Snyder and majority Republican lawmakers offered up and even began passing rival plans to use some of a budget surplus for short- or long-term tax rel...

What with higher interest rates and fewer home sales nationwide, just $235 billion in home loans are started in this year's first quarter.Fewer home sales and rising interest rates have led to the nation's lowest level o...

Ichitan, the bottled tea company started by the flamboyant Tan Passakornnatee, began trading on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) on Monday, April 21.  Priced at Bt 13 during the April 8-11 IPO,  the stock quickly h...

There has been unprecedented activity on social and traditional media regarding proposed changes to the principle of Net Neutrality, which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is set to approve.

Trial programme expanded to multi-national firms with operations inside or outside China with an annual forex income of over $100 million

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Things seem to be settling into place.

In a surprise move, Vic Gundotra has announced that he's leaving Google behind for unknown pathways. It's a sad day for Google+, as he's been its leader since the very beginning.

Elon Musk, the business mogul who dreams of colonizing Mars, wants a bigger piece of the space market, and he's willing to sue his biggest potential customer to get it. SpaceX, his California-based rocket company, announ...

The deal adds to pacts already reached with pension fund leaders and others, and brings Detroit closer to paying back some of its overwhelming debts and emerging from bankruptcy.

It was the inside tip that kept on giving -- and giving and giving. A former tech executive was hit with criminal and civil charges for tipping friends and family...

(Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co's global chairman of investment banking and veteran deal maker James Elliott will retire in June, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters.

Starbucks's coffee purchases have nearly ground to a halt over the past four-to-five weeks, as the prices for coffee beans soared, Craig Russell, Starbucks's head of coffee said Friday.

Small businesses in eight New Mexico counties are eligible for federal disaster loans due to the drought.

As businesses, particularly in the energy sector, campaign to maintain ties with Moscow, the world's seven wealthiest nations said on Friday they would impose additional sanctions on Russia resulting from its military ac...

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(Reuters) - U.S. government agencies that have been probing banks' hiring of children of powerful Chinese officials are expanding existing investigations in other industries across Asia to include hiring practices, four ...

AOL and Microsoft partner on huge content deal. Hope to stay relevant.

Google Glass is definitely a controversial device, especially in San Francisco.  There are several bars in the city that ban the device outright, and one of Business Insider's own reporters, Kyle Russell, was attacked f...

Meet Kittyo, a new gadget that enables cat owners to play with their cats remotely.

Crowdfunder has just raised money more quickly than any other UK business on a crowdfunding platform. Is it ready to take on the world?