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A famous Taiwan plastics fortune has not spared Walter Wang his travails. But the plucky scion's luck could turn again and let new wealth flow.

At this year's F8 developer's conference, Mark Zuckerberg jokingly rolled out a new motto for Facebook: "Move Fast With Stable Infra." In the past, Facebook's motto was "Move Fast, Break Things." The idea was that it wan...

Snapchat co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy both made Time Magazine's list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. At a gala Tuesday night celebrating the honorees at Lincoln Center, Spiegel and Murphy po...

Lawyers for Apple and Samsung presented closing arguments in the latest billion-dollar patent dispute between the mobile phone and tablet makers.

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Within 72 hours of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, a White House lawyer had crafted the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF). That law, approved by Congress, gave President George W. Bush the power...

He stood there tall and thin, a bald man with a quiet intensity, choosing his few words carefully and speaking them forcefully. They were authoritative and decisive: "personal outrage," "personally distraught" and, perha...

For a few years there, Apple was on an insane run. It defined the smartphone market with the iPhone, then reinvented personal computing with the iPad. Growth was off the charts as consumers bought these products. Then, t...

Benjamin M. Lawsky, New York State's top financial regulator, is sending cease-and-desist letters to 20 companies suspected of making illegal payday loans.

The board of the struggling French industrial company Alstom formally accepted a net $13.5 billion all-cash offer from General Electric for its energy businesses Wednesday, giving the U.S. conglomerate a leg up over a bi...

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are the technology of tiny devices, such as earphone-attached microphones, accelerometers, and gyroscopes found in smartphones.

More than 200 executives, foundation leaders, and social sector professionals gathered a short breeze from the spring blooms of Washington Square Park in Manhattan yesterday for the inaugural Women in Philanthropy Sum...

Myntra expects the marketplace business to generate as much as 40% of its sales by the end of the year, from 20% currently

(Reuters) - Nuclear power company Exelon Corp agreed to buy utility company Pepco Holdings Inc for more than $5.4 billion in cash, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the transaction.

Wal-Mart teams up with AutoInsurance.com to offer price comparison shopping for auto insurance

Fuyao Glass Industry Group, the auto-glass manufacturing flagship of Chinese billionaire Cho Tak Wong, said Tuesday net profit in the first three months of 2014 gained 20% from a year earlier to $76 million. Revenue duri...

When you're trying to start your own company, one of the biggest obstacles can be effective time management. Even if you've got the necessary business skills, a talented team and plenty of funding to get started, you'll ...

Japan's central bank kept its ultra-loose monetary policy unchanged in a policy meeting Wednesday, despite data suggesting the economic recovery is weaker than expected.

The United States Supreme Court's decision that existing law was too rigid should help cut the number of abusive or coercive patent suits brought by so-called patent trolls.

Senators are expected to vote tomorrow on a bill that would raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10, a well-intentioned though economically irrational policy change that few Democrats realize has a troubling racial h...

The Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday delayed consideration of a measure that would revamp the nation's housing finance system, with the panel's leaders signaling that they have enough votes to pass the bill out of com...

Ayla Networks has moved into China and has created a series of chip and hardware partnerships.