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16-year-old Nash Grier is what you'd call a "Vine Celebrity," with over 8 million followers on the video-sharing platform, more than any other user on Vine. But the teenager found himself in hot water after a video he pu...

If you don't know the story about how Kate Moss became a supermodel, here's the abridged version: In 1988, 14-year-old Moss was walking through JFK airport with her mother when Sarah Doukas, the founder of Storm Model M...

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Evan Neal, a 16-year-old rising junior at East Chapel Hill High School, is mining bitcoins for fun and profit.

Much has changed in the past two decades when it comes to long-term-care op-tions and how to fund them.

It is an old complaint but it is still true: UK manufacturers are good at inventing, but bad at bringing technologies to market

In a game full of missed opportunities, substitute Mario Gotze controlled a cross with his chest, poked a shot the goalkeeper, and won the 2014 World Cup for Germany with a 113th-minute goal. The final score line: German...

New Cleveland Cavalier LeBron James is at the World Cup final in Rio promoting Nike. When a guy ran onto the field in the second half, ESPN cut to scenic shots of the stadium and didn't even mention it to viewers.  LeBr...

The game of golf is recovering from years of triple-bogies. As budget-conscious middle-class Americans massively quit the game, the rich are propping up the struggling golf industry -- and golf-crazed...

Chinese private equity firm Hony Capital snaps up the iconic restaurant outlet first founded in Britain in 1965.

Striving to gain greater insights into how existing customers can be retained and grown while attracting new prospects, nearly all companies are capturing customer data at an accelerating rate.

After growing by leaps and bounds for decades, Wal-Mart has stalled. For the most recent quarter, revenues grew by 0.80%, while earnings dropped by 5 percent.

The days of lifetime employment at a single company are long gone, and the trust between employers and employees is broken. Companies welcome new hires into their "family," with the caveat that they can be fired at any t...

So now we know what lies beneath the recent Bulgarian bank runs. Fraud.

A new study adds some empirical firepower to the idea that poor patent laws are crushing innovation in the technology industry.

An Oregon man who set out to reinvent the familiar cooler you take to the beach or on camping trips has already raised $3 million for the project, and his fundraising effort is on track to possibly beat the Kickstarter r...

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Kochhar says there are no immediate plans for listing of any of its subsidiaries

Web streaming giant Hulu has landed a major deal with the creators of South Park, securing exclusive rights to the TV show’s massive content backlog. Since 2008, South Parks’ creators have made nearly every episode o...

Ohioans paid more to insure their homes last year, according to figures recently released from the state's Department of Insurance.

Heads up, iBeacon developers: Apple is gearing up to launch a new product that will utilize its location-aware iBeacon technology, according to a filing with the Federal Communications Commission. Apple’s iBeacon techn...

Investment inspiration can come from many highly unlikely sources. Wisdom is typically gained from an expensive education of real-world experience and painful losses. Occasionally, though, we can find important nuggets o...