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If you've been sitting around cursing the absence of Tax Geek Tuesday for the past two weeks, your loneliness saddens me I apologize, but I've been tied up pursuing every American's dream of writing 20,000 words about ...

Territorial tensions in Asia continue to rise. The latest: A Chinese ship has reportedly sunk a Vietnamese boat, reports the Nikkei. A Chinese vessel rammed and sank a Vietnamese fishing boat off the coast of Vietnam on ...

The above map, sent to us by Mike Simmons of Broadview Networks, shows the largest employer in every state.  Broadview Networks used information from CareerOneStop, a database sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor.�...

With rumors of a huge $500 million round of funding on the horizon, Uber is set to become the most valuable startup in the world. For users, the appeal of Uber is obvious. You can get a car on demand without the hassle o...

Google is looking to acquire Skybox and its satellite technology. This could be Google's move into the stars.

John Defterios on how President Putin is presenting an image of a leader working to overcome western sanctions.

The owners of the tallest tower at the World Trade Center are cutting office rents just months before it opens because of slow leasing activity.

If you're hoping to pre-order books by J.K. Rowling, Michael Connelly and other Hachette Book Group authors, you'll have to go somewhere besides Amazon.com.

The White House has launched an investigation into the apparent inadvertent disclosure of the identity of the CIA's top official in Afghanistan on Sunday. White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough asked new White House ...

If ever there was a master on stage, it was the late Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs. While much of Jobs' personality can't be imitated (and probably shouldn't be), everyone can benefit from studying his presentation style....

I think of the photos we have in our social media profiles, particularly LinkedIn, as akin to personal logos. I recognize the photos of many colleagues, friends, and others from their profiles in the various social netwo...

Longhand note takers learn by reframing lecturers' ideas in their own words.

The number of shareholders having a say on how their companies are run is on the rise. But not everyone agrees it's a good thing. The post Should we cheer the shareholder activists? was first published on MoneyWeek.

China's government plans to take 5 million older, polluting vehicles off the road this year in an effort to revive stalled progress toward cleaning up smog-choked cities.

This Memorial Day Weekend, sailors in dress whites, Marines, and members of the Coast Guard roamed New York City to take in the sights and activities of New York's Fleet Week. We set out to meet sailors to see what they...

Venezuela's cash-strapped government has agreed to pay part of $4 billion owed to foreign airlines and may soon allow them to aggressively raise airfares as it works to head off more carriers from leaving the country.

A new report concludes that while financial institutions have taken significant steps to bolster cyber security efforts, they will continue to be challenged by the speed of technological change and the increasingly sophi...

Business Highlights

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is boasting in a new campaign mailer of shutting down a plan to give "amnesty" to "illegal aliens," a strongly worded statement from a Republican leader who's spoken f...

Some employees of Adchemy, the adtech startup acquired by Walmart's digital marketing unit, @WalmartLabs, are angry that five members of the company's management became millionaires in the sale, when most employees got n...

Predicting the future can be like "throwing guesses at the wall” and waiting to see which ones stick. Considering how quickly mobile has proliferated the marketplace in the last few years, with almost seven billion mob...

In light of the avalanche of trade press articles, analyst reports and vendor pronouncements, one can be forgiven for thinking the whole business world already exists entirely in digital form. But most products and servi...