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According to teenagers, determining how cool you are on Instagram comes down to one number: Your "Cool Ratio." Introduced to us by a 12-year-old kid named Josh who was sitting next to the author of this post at a bus sto...

Robert De Niro was nominated for an Oscar for his 1976 leading role in "Taxi Driver," about a Vietnam veteran working as a night-time cab driver in New York City to battle his insomnia. Perhaps De Niro was so convincing...

McDonald's sells 13 billion servings of fries every year.  And the fast food giant has the system for the signature item down to a science.  McDonald's Canada has a great video that breaks down the process of making th...

As physical shopper numbers fall, supermarkets begin to cut back space in favour of coffee shops, gyms and soft-play centres

The continued enslavement of migrants working in the Thai fishing industry highlights flaws in the monitoring of suppliers Video: how big supermarkets are selling prawns in supply chain fed by slave labour

5 'Market Movers' with more control than seems fair.

After this week, it no longer makes sense to think of the civil conflicts in Iraq and Syria as separate events. They are now a single war, both in their operational details and in the broader forces driving both conflict...

Google's latest acquisition -- Skybox -- will allow the world's largest Internet search provider to collect and provide data from the sky.

Russia's gas giant has given Ukraine another week before it will start demanding prepayment for gas, without which it has threatened to cut off supplies.

This is my second "transfer of wealth" cycle.

Landon Donovan, the all-time leading scorer in U.S. soccer history, isn't going to Brazil after Jurgen Klinsmann shockingly cut him from the 23-man World Cup roster. Donovan said he was surprised and disappointed by the ...

Gold futures head higher for a third session in a row, buoyed by renewed worries over global growth prospects, weakness Palladium continues to surge amid a South African miners' strike.

In this borrowing economy, companies attempting to be the "Netflix of the some new good or service" seems to be the new norm, especially with respect to luxury e-commerce sites. Rent the Runway (dresses), Bag Borrow or S...

Seventeen years after Hong Kong's transfer to Chinese sovereignty, concerns are growing in the former British colony about democratic rights and freedoms.

With no stores and an IT infrastructure that makes the cost of adding inventory close to zero, Amazon doesn't have to care about its suppliers.

Walmart has low prices -- unless you're talking about the prices of its top execs. That's the message from the retail giant's independent shareholders, with more than a third of...

Increases to the minimum wage do one thing: make life better for the low paid. They don't cause unemployment, no matter what big business says

Dr. Dre has been compared with Steve Jobs as both being workaholic perfectionists. Apple hopes that Dr. Dre will help the company regain its "cool" factor against rival Samsung.

The music industry group behind the Grammy Awards wants radio stations to start forking over royalties to the songs' performers. Music streaming companies like Pandora and Spotify already pay performers...

Convicted insider trader Mathew Martoma has been given almost seven more weeks to ponder his fate. The former SAC Capital portfolio manager's sentencing -- originally scheduled for June 10 --...

The continuing crisis between Russia and Ukraine means Moscow is increasingly looking at boosting its ties with China.

According to Chinese real estate listings firm, Juwai, these are the top 10 countries China's wealthy are house hunting. To the world, China is an emerging market. But to China, the world is an emerging opportunity. Here...