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Brady W. Dougan is a low-key Midwesterner who drives a Prius. He is also the chief executive of the first very large bank to be criminally convicted in decades.

Sponsored Post: TMM, Inc. (TMMI-PK) ("TMMI") or (the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has entered into a joint research program with Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) to test the TRUDEF™ video compression technolog...

The founding fathers of enterprise lived by a simple maxim: crush the little guy.  Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan and their ilk may have built the modern industrial age but they did it on the carcasses of a million small...

NerdWallet tallied the top 42 metro areas by population to determine this (surprising!) list of the best cities for young founders. These 10 came out on top--and (shocklingly!) the Alley and the Valley are nowhere to be ...

On May 9, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued what will likely be a highly influential—and in many ways problematic—ruling on source code copyright, holding that a set of Java application programming ...

Nobody should be surprised anymore by news of big, fat telecom mergers. AT&T's acquiring DirecTV for nearly $49 billion is just the latest in a long line of tie-ups among phone, cable and satellite companies. It's the li...

Year after year, Paul Allen's party aboard his massive "Octopus" yacht is one of the hottest after-hour tickets of the Cannes International Film Festival.  Models, socialites, and major players in the film industry tur...

Everybody knows Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates,  the richest man in the world.  But Microsoft's other cofounder, Paul Allen, has only become famous (outside of Seattle) since he published his memoirs in 2011. He, too,...

The slow start of the WWE's (NYSE: WWE) online streaming service and lukewarm reception to the organization's new television deal has had a significant impact on Chairman Vince McMahon's bank account. The 68-year-old rep...

A federal appeals court refused to reconsider an earlier decision upholding the process by which BP must compensate businesses claiming damages over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

The morning we talked with Jim Koch, the Sam Adams founder had already sampled his company's goods. Skipping breakfast to catch a plane, he got some nourishment in the form of a Boston Lager aboard his JetBlue flight. "W...

IBM bought Cognea for its "depth of personality" technologies. The startup provides virtual personalities range from "suit-and-tie format to kid-next-door friendly."

There are people who are leaders simply because of their position, and then there are leaders who are in their positions because they've earned them. You want to be in the latter camp. In anticipation of Memorial Day, th...

CreditEase, a Chinese peer-to-peer (P2P) lending service, has been the subject of negative publicity of late. In April, the company was accused of concealing from investors of enormous amount of bad debt, which was subse...

The wife of political blogger Clayton Kelly said that her husband had been ordered to quickly take down a video clip against Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) featuring Cochran's wife by primary challenger state Sen. Chris McDani...

This article is the first of a 4 part follow up to the earlier published 4 Trends Transforming the Way We Communicate. The original article can be found here.

U.S. Census data also reports that immigrants are more likely than native citizens to choose self-employment--5.1% are self employed in their own incorporated businesses as compared to only 3.7% of native-born U.S. entre...

When Pinterest launched Place Pins — which let users mark their favorite places with images on a map — the image-sharing site expected to see maps of beautiful beaches and stunning national landmarks. But maps based...

It's easy to forget, but these simple tips will show you the value of understanding user metrics and acting on them.

Psychological research has found that your subconscious interprets what it hears very literally. The words you think and speak therefore create the world in which you inhabit. Your words have immense power. Power to open...