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At just 12-years-old, actress Rowan Blanchard is already raking in $210,000 for the first season of the Disney Channel's "Boy Meets World" reboot, "Girl Meets World," premiering June 27th. TMZ got a hold of Blanchard's ...

You may remember actress Stacey Dash for her role as "Dionne" in the 1995 hit, "Clueless."But now it's time for the 47-year-old actress to hang up her headbands as she just signed on as a contributor for Fox News. In he...

Philip Morris International's next generation of cigarettes are designed to heat tobacco, not burn it, cutting down on harmful substances.

There are two ways to look at the sleazy emails Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegal wrote when he was the social coordinator of his fraternity at Stanford. The emails describe him urinating on a girl, and talk about shooting fat w...

While Ellen DeGeneres may hold the title for most-liked Twitter "selfie" of all time, Kim Kardashian's Instagram photo from her wedding to Kanye West is giving the talk show host a run for her money. A picture of the new...

Every map grapples with making Earth, a spherical planet, appear to scale in two dimensions. But the most well-known version today — called the Mercator projection — drastically distorts the size of many countries. ...

The truly enormous scope of World War II is almost impossible to understand in hindsight. The war devastated vast swathes of Europe, East Asia, the Pacific, and North Africa, while its influence touched upon every part o...

Yes, Apple confirmed that it's buying Beats for $3 billion. The deal is part tech land grab (for Beats audio  and its subscription service) and part acquihire, Tim Cook revealed on stage at the Re/code conference on We...

Foursquare’s COO Evan Cohen and VP of Business Development Holger Luedort are leaving the company, Re/Code’s Mike Isaac reports. Cohen has spent more than four years at the company. He tells Isaac he’s “low on ga...

Tonight when the new Moon rises, or in the next few nights when the Moon is a slim crescent, go outside and look up. You might see Earth's reflected light in the dim glow. A new Moon occurs when all of the Sun's light is...

U.S. GDP shrinks in first quarter amid severe weatherThe U.S. economy contracted in the first quarter for the first time in three years as it buckled under the weight of a severe winter, but there are signs activity has ...

African Start-Up meets Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola who operates a recycling company in Lagos, Nigeria.

Apple is making a big bet that the hotter streaming-music service, Beats Music, can bring some life to its aging iTunes service, which is seeing its growth slow amid the popularity of streaming music services, writes The...

Shares in Chinese Internet firm Qihoo 360 Technology rose by 5.7% in overnight trading at the New York Stock Exchange after the company reported big increases in profit, advertising and game revenue during the first thre...

Tyson Foods Inc. (NYSE:TSN) has offered to buy Hillshire Brands Co. (NYSE:HSH) for $6.8 billion, upstaging Pilgrim's Pride Corp.'s $6.4-billion bid and signaling a high-stakes food fight for the seller of Hillshire and J...

Democrats were quick to rebut Republican Sen. Ted Cruz's criticism of President Barack Obama's policies toward Israel and Iran, which he delivered Wednesday evening during a stop on his first high-profile overseas trip.�...

Medical device maker Medtronic Inc. will pay the U.S. Department of Justice $9.9 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of giving doctors gifts in return for using…

Google elected to share some not-so-flattering numbers with the world Wednesday evening. In a blog entry titled "Getting to work on diversity at Google," Google's senior vice president of "people operations," Laszlo Bock...

Sony is expecting to sell 17 million PlayStation 4 consoles by April 2015. Will it continue to outsell Microsoft's Xbox One to reach this goal?

Labor and community groups pushed an effort to put a minimum wage of $10.10 on the ballot; Republican lawmakers joined with Democrats to pass a more modest $9.25.

Flash back to the year 2000. File sharing of digital tracks through Napster is all the rage for tech savvy music junkies. The record labels are annoyed but not yet distressed. After all they are just coming off of the be...

Microsoft and Salesforce.com chiefs say it's about giving customers what they want. But the moves should also pay off in greater usage and less frustration over a lack of interoperability.