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BI Answers: Why does your foot lose feeling when it falls asleep? You've had your foot bent in an awkward position for a long time, and now it feels kind of numb, making it difficult to stand up. When this happens, we of...

Earlier this month, The Verge reported that "Unicode, an industry standard that regulates the presentation of text across different software platforms, updated to include 250 new emoji.  Everyone was very excited abou...

"To which of the following issues are you currently allocating wealth, time or expertise?" This was a question posed to over 4,500 of the world's high-net-worth individuals (HNWI) in a recent survey conducted by Capgemin...

The runaway success of French economist Thomas Piketty's book on income inequality seems to be bringing out the billionaires to opine on the same subject. Last week it was Goldman...

Banks and mortgage servicers that made phony Federal Housing Administration insurance claims to the feds could owe as much as $500 million in penalties and damages -- for New York...

It's the greatest migration of wealth ever to hit humanity: The unprecedented flood of money, four times the size of the US gross domestic product, that will be passed along...

Creating new ventures is something of an addiction for some entrepreneurs.

Most chief executive officers of Idaho's publicly traded companies saw their pay increased in 2013.

The Middle East is being shaken by an intensifying sectarian war stretching from the Mediterranean coast to Iran. And all signs suggest that the situation created by the ongoing war in Syria — which has spilled over in...

American Apparel CEO Dov Charney received an ultimatum at a company board meeting last Wednesday, according to sources cited by The Wall Street Journal: quit or be fired. "People familiar with the situation" told the WSJ...

Immigration policy is one of the mostly hotly debated issues in the country. From the perspective of the U.S. housing market, evidence shows that immigration is very positive. Immigrants create demand, they clear out und...

Investors are becoming complacent again like they did during the last bubble.

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Most chief executive officers of Idaho's publicly traded companies saw their pay increased in 2013.

Sting's children cannot expect to inherit his multimillion-pound wealth, the rock star has said, joining the ranks of the super-rich who have claimed that passing on their vast fortunes to their offspring could do more h...

The following tax-exempt fixed-income issues are scheduled for pricing this week.

The final obstacle to GE's $17 billion takeover of Alstom's power division was overcome Sunday after the French government agreed to terms with the French engineering company's main shareholder.

Beware the idea of a “death spiral,” heralded by some as the inevitable result for electric utilities of mass adoption of renewable energy sources — particularly solar. Under this scenario, advances in renewable en...

A lesser-told angle of the recent Vergara v. California ruling is its potential to improve Golden State public schools’ financial position and and market competitiveness relative to charter schools. Aside from the peda...

Guest Post: How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. Register now and save $200...

With the Fire Phone, Amazon chose not to innovate in an area most people were hoping it would: price.

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