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The gig: Judith and Steve Marosvolgyi are the founders of Century Books, a used bookstore on Green Street in Pasadena. Judith and Steve were voracious readers while growing up in their native Hungary. After defecting to ...

The government will need to quickly clear stalled infra projects, which will have a multiplier effect on other sectors and help boost bank credit growth

When one thinks about surfing, the first place to come to mind probably isn’t Alaska. Adventure photographer Scott Dickerson is trying to change all of that.  Dickerson has been photographing and surfing in Alaska for...

Lately, various housing-market metrics such as existing-home sales, new-home sales, and mortgage applications have all been flagging. We also recently learned that the U.S. homeownership rate was at a 19-year low, and so...

Launched in 2008 by Stanford graduates Maxim Faldin and Kamil Kurmakaev, Wikimart had the initial ambition of creating a Russian analog of eBay. Heavily funded by major U.S. investment funds, the startup has now become a...

Fundamentally, Bush believes that the marketplace, for lack of a better word, is good. "The marketplace works," he explains. "It rewards innovators, kills laggards, and provides consumers with better value and more choic...

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Among the many questions surrounding the Federal Reserve’s programme of quantitative easing (QE) is what will happen to the vast stockpile of bonds it has accumulated in its efforts to lower interest rates. Officials a...

An electric guitar played by George Harrison on British television before the Beatles' U.S. "invasion" fetched $657,000 at auction on Saturday in New York, topping pre-sale estimates, Julien's Auctions said.

The Oracle of Omaha stayed true to his investing philosophy last quarter despite a volatile market.

A former Florida governor who is seeking re-election said Saturday he was in favor of lifting a US embargo on Cuba. Washington has had an economic embargo clamped on the communist-run Caribbean country since 1962, and th...

AT&T agreed today to acquire satellite television provider DirecTV for about $48.5 billion. The acquisition, announced via a press release, will close only if approved by regulators. Both companies approved the transacti...

Life360 founder Chris Hulls has faced his share of patent shakedowns before — at least three or four, by his count. But when the latest patent holder, AGIS, sent his company a notice alleging that Life360 was infringin...

The new owner of Atari discusses the direction of the classic video game brand.

When Marco Polo travelled to Hangzhou, China 700 years ago, never had he thought he’d be creating a dream job of social media ambassador in 21st century China.

Of Americans who know enough about net neutrality to have an opinion, a slim majority support the regulation. Most don't know enough to offer an opinion (57%), but knowledgeable respondents favor net neutrality 23% to 19...

A recent covert to social media marketing, Mark L. Poniatowski, reported in on his immediate success using just the basic networking tools LinkedIn provides. He reaped a 10x ROI in just a month of working that social med...

You might be surprised to learn how Steve Farnsworth earned over 113,000 highly engaged Twitter followers. His bonafides reflect his followers' hyperactivity. Steve was named by Forbes as a Top 50 Social Media Influenc...

FastFWD, Philadelphia's unusual "super-group" accelerator, just held its first investor pitch day--and is ready for its next cohort.

Next Tuesday's release of Wolfenstein: The New Order now comes with free beta access to 2014's Doom 4.

Anyone who followed the action on Wall Street closely last week can’t help but be puzzled by three charts that are inconsistent with what’s going on in the rest of the US economy.