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Guest Post: The arms race is on to apply technology to proven investment heuristics.

I like gold. My wedding ring is simple but classy. My crowns in my mouth are so good that I forget they are there. The electronic contacts in my computer work just fine. Gold is great. But not as a steady measure of purc...

Pizza Vinoteca isn't your typical pizza place. The restaurant, which opened in March just off of New York City's Union Square, is taking a high-tech approach to creating quality pizza, with features like an army of iPads...

    There's no better place than Times Square to find out what people think of an obscure expression used solely in Vermont and Maine.  Check out the entertaining responses we gathered, some of which were surprisingly...

Arsenal won their 11th FA Cup and first since 2005 with a 3-2 win over Hull City. Hull looked like they were on the way to winning their first FA Cup when they jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first eight minutes. Arsenal...

It's college graduation season, meaning throngs of young workers with freshly minted diplomas are hustling to land their first jobs. As the economy continues to slowly improve, it appears the class of 2014 is facing a su...

I love it when all my hats fit at the same time.  Last night’s Small Business Week reception at the Chamber of Commerce building (gorgeous) in Washington, D.C. was a smash hit from the entrepreneurship perspective. �...

On March 21, 2003, the second Gulf War began with an amphibious assault on the Iraqi city of Umm Qasr, a small strategically important port on the Kuwaiti border. The battle lasted only a few days and was followed by a m...

A growing number of cameras -- hundreds around Los Angeles, thousands nationwide -- are engaged in a simple pursuit: Taking pictures of license plates. The digital photos, automatically snapped by cameras mounted on cars...

Somewhere out there in the world of equities there are Holy Grail investments.

Malware has become the big bad wolf in cybersecurity circles, and businesses around the globe are quickly buying up the latest detection technologies to protect their IT networks. However, the problem is that hackers are...

Launching a business is the dream of many of this year’s college graduates. But the road to success can be fraught with frustrating roadblocks. Some studies show that as many as three out of every four business startup...

California's unemployment rate dropped below 8% last month for the first time in nearly six years as employers put the state on the verge of recovering all of the jobs lost during the Great Recession. Employers added 56,...

Clarence Otis Jr. is throwing Red Lobster overboard -- and could soon face a mutiny. Despite fierce protests from activist shareholders, the embattled chairman and CEO of Darden Restaurants pushed...

Pact between Apple and Google brings to a close a patent dispute between the iPhone maker and the Web giant's Motorola unit.

On Thursday, the new bestseller list arrived at the offices of Hachette Book Group with good news: One of the publisher's books, T.D. Jakes's "Instinct," had vaulted to the No. 1 spot. But the bad news was that anyone tr...

Earlier this week, over 1,800 investment professionals took time out to visit Seattle for CFA Institute's 67th Annual Conference. This was an important opportunity to join an initiative that is about the future of financ...

The Minnesota Senate passed a bill on Friday that seeks to protect borrowers from falling further into debt to payday lenders.

Hyundai Motor Co. is recalling 137,500 Tucson SUVs because the air bags aren't correctly mounted to the steering wheel.

$240,000. That’s how much these folks need to launch Israel’s first lunar mission. In a new Indiegogo campaign, Israeli non-profit organization SpaceIL is seeking enough funding to get a foothold o Earth’s moon by ...

Founder of now shuttered music service MOG David Hyman is suing Beats Electronics for upwards of $20 million, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday. Hyman joined Beats after the company purchased the MOG streaming music...

Everyone's favorite plumber is tired of getting nothing but kisses from Peach.