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The Weekly Oil and Gas Follies – Volume 44, May 5, 2014

In 2009, Anna Newell Jones was deep in debt — $23,605.10 to be exact. "I felt hopeless about money, and the whole idea of trying to get out of debt was such a drag," recalls Newell Jones. "Not surprisingly, I did every...

America's allies are nervous. With Russia grabbing territory, China bullying its neighbours and Syria murdering its people, many are asking: where is Globocop? Under what circumstances will America act to deter troublema...

The chief executive of Montana's largest mining company says layoffs and buyouts potentially affecting about 100 workers are needed to ensure the company's future growth.

Berkshire Hathaway held its annual meeting in Omaha, Neb. on Saturday, with Chairman Warren Buffett once again defending his decision to abstain from voting on a Coca-Cola Co. equity compensation plan.

The fate of casino gambling in Massachusetts may hinge on a case before the state's highest court Monday.

President Obama's much-hyped "pivot" to Asia is leading to misunderstandings between what America's Asian allies expect and what the U.S. is likely to do in case serious trouble blows up in the seas and small islands cla...

General Motors Co is recalling 51,640 Buick Enclave, Chevrolet Traverse and GMC Acadia SUVs of the 2014 model year because faulty software may cause the fuel gauge to read inaccurately, U.S. regulators said on Saturday.

The five highest performing cloud computing stocks year-to-date in the Cloud Computing Index are F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV), Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM), Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR), Riverbed Technologies (NASDAQ:RVBD), a...

On May 20, 2013, Yahoo announced that it'd be buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion. Tumblr's founder, who still owned a large portion of the company, was only 26 years old. How has David Karp spent his past year? His Tumblr bl...

If you spent any time on the Internet over the last few months, there's a chance you saw this photo of firemen who had found a fool-proof way to lay a hose over train tracks. The photo went viral, being shared all over T...

The NBA and the Clippers continue to move forward to find a CEO replacement for Donald Sterling

So much for “sell in May and go away” -- for now at least, there is too much going on.

Richard Freeman of ClearBridge Aggressive Growth has racked up big gains on stocks bought decades ago.

These funds for retirement savings can use very different recipes, which means investors need to look closely at a fund's approach.

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Seventy-five years ago today, the World's Fair came to New York, and with it came one of the world's first official time capsules.  Called "Dawn of a New Day," the 1939 Fair adopted a future-focused theme, which would b...

Brominated vegetable oil had already been dropped by PepsiCo from its Gatorade products following public scrutiny and a Change.org petition

Guest Post: As new grads enter the workforce, they expect video to be an essential part of corporate learning and communication. And companies that don't embrace the technology risk being at the back of the line for job�...

Breakups are always hard, and sometimes kind of messy. Such is the case between PayPal and its (now former) VP of strategy Rakesh "Rocky" Agrawal, who parted ways as of this weekend. Agrawal, a former VentureBeat columni...

Star Wars is more influential than you might think.

Smartguns, which just entered the market, are firearms equipped with small embedded computers that are supposed to enhance safety by preventing anyone other than authorized parties from firing the weapons, and, in some c...