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Meet Jack Ma, the charismatic leader of the Chinese e-commerce giant that looms over eBay and Amazon, who is sometimes described as Alibaba's spiritual leader.

The latest U.S. and EU sanctions against Russia may have American and European companies fearing for their business there, but Chinese firms see an opportunity. The Ukraine crisis seems to be pushing the Kremlin into clo...

Talk of a Chinese property bubble is back in the headlines.  Recently, leaked recordings showed that Mao Daqing, vice chairman of Vanke Group, made some bearish comments on the property sector. The recent slump in prope...

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Warren Buffett is widely celebrated for his plain-spoken, straight-shooting manner, but the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. showed on Saturday before thousands of shareholders that he sometimes values degrees of nuan...

Andy Ellison is an MRI technician at Boston University School of Medicine. In addition to scanning brains, he also creates stunning MRI scans of fruits and vegetables.  The images show the cross-section everyday food it...

Google and Amazon are going head to head over Los Angeles shoppers, launching same-day delivery services in the area within days of each other.

Chipotle's business is booming, and the burrito chain's co-CEOs are being paid handsomely for it.  Steve Ells and Monty Moran made a combined $58 million last year, according to James Covert at The New York Post.  Cov...

Predicting the NFL Draft is an impossible task. One whacky pick early in the draft, and the whole things becomes irrelevant. So instead of making up our own mock draft, we combined the mock drafts of 10 other experts to ...

In the worst collapse of the English Premier League season, Liverpool blew a 3-0 lead with 11 minutes left and drew Crystal Palace 3-3 on Monday in London. Liverpool came into the game tied with Manchester City on points...

You might think it’d be hard to find a corporate investment that pays back almost a 30 percent return but still doesn’t seem worth the effort. But a new survey we’re running on marketing automation with Ian Cleary ...

Some hiring managers ask oddball questions during the interview; others may test your skills or knowledge on the spot. One CEO will go a step further and ask you to drive his car. The New York Times' Adam Bryant recentl...

After the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting this weekend, Warren Buffett spent several hours at Borsheims — the jewelry mega-store he owns in Omaha — selling items to customers in a packed house. He als...

CEO of Women's Business Development Center spreads financial freedomEmilia DiMenco, the CEO of the Women's Business Development Center, helps spread financial freedom to female entrepreneurs.

Asian stock markets slipped Monday after a survey showed that Chinese manufacturing shrank in April for the fourth month in a row.

LG is in the process of building what it says will be one of the most environmentally sound buildings in the state of New Jersey, but not all of its neighbors are happy about it. Residents of Englewood Cliffs are taking ...

The cost of entry for an aspiring entrepreneur has never been lower, and the total wealth of opportunities has never been larger. You can start a new e-Commerce site on the Internet for as little as $100, with cheap smar...

A plan to reverse-flow natural gas into Ukraine from the European Union has been hindered by neighboring Slovakia's reticence, seemingly due to pressure from Russia's state-owned energy behemoth.

The move to integrate brands and products into video content and the resulting revenue have prompted the development of more original video programming.

One of the big and under-appreciated problems in this country is income segregation. One way this happens is that higher income neighborhoods using restrictive zoning to keep low-income housing out of their neighborhoods...

Amid a swoon in long-dated corporate bond supply this year, Caterpillar today placed $2 billion of new debt across three long-dated tranches, after adding a rare 50-year issue to the offering over the course of today's...

May is college graduation season, and soon thousands of seniors will stride across the stage in an American ritual.