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As its membership ages, the National Rifle Association is trying to appeal to the younger generation with a "hip" new web show called "Noir." The show features Colion Noir (not his real name) and Amy Robbins as hosts, an...

The Business for Peace Foundation in Norway is honoring six entrepreneurs with its 2014 Oslo Business for Peace Awards. The awards are intended "to accelerate a reappraisal of what it should mean to be regarded as a succ...

Everyone knows the feeling of spilling hot coffee on their hands or pants. With a conventional coffee cup lid, spills and leaks are a constant threat. Some establishments, like Starbucks, offer plugs to seal their cups, ...

Technology companies and some of the world's biggest e-commerce businesses are giving traditional banks a run for their money.

In a surprise move, France's government issued a decree that will allow it to block foreign takeovers of French companies in strategic industries such as energy, transport and telecom, Reuters reported.

Would you pay $28 million for this one-ton steel sculpture of Popeye? If you're Steve Wynn, the answer appears to be, Why not. The casino magnate was the lone bidder for the 2009 Jeff Koons piece in a Wednesday Sotheby'...

While Japan's economy continues to falter, lawmakers are betting big that the casino industry can swoop in and lift it out of the doldrums.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faces lawsuit for allegedly breaking a part of a deal with a real estate developer, which is to introduce the latter to wealthy potential estate buyers. Zuckerberg's defense refutes the claim...

London is arguably the financial capital of the world. Though recent banking and market scandals have rocked the city's standing atop the Global Financial Centres Index, its small business scene has exploded in recent ye...

The Cossacks — an ethnic minority of East Slavic people who recently helped Russia annex Crimea from Ukraine — send kids as young as 7 to military training camps to learn how to become “defenders of the homeland.�...

Bloomberg reports the company is in talks with investors that could triple the ride-share company's value if secured

The former head of GlaxoSmithKline in China was charged with corruption by local authorities after a probe that resulted in accusations that the drug maker ran a wide-ranging bribery scheme that included payoffs to docto...

No matter how much meaning our pattern-seeking minds try to invest in correlations, they may have none at all. There's a reason the word coincidence exists.

A Senate panel approved a bill to redesign the U.S. mortgage finance system, but it's unlikely to make it into law.

When you've been diagnosed with hypertension, it's important to keep your doctor in the loop on how you're doing. After all, what might just feel like a bad day could actually be a sign of a serious condition going from ...

The yield ended flat at 8.78%, after earlier falling to 8.76% and again rising to 8.81% before the close

Gregory Pearson was appointed interim CEO at River Region Medical Center in Vicksburg.

What's a selfie worth?

The British East India Company's ships flew an ensign incorporating the Union Jack. Today corporate nationality is harder to determine. Take Coca-Cola, the epitome of Americana. Less than half its sales and staff hail fr...

If Mark Zuckerberg wants to connect the world, he needs China. Now Facebook is eyeing a China step forward.

Startup training network Founder Institute is launching a partner VC firm called Expansive Ventures.