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Mexican billionaire is about to raised about $15 billion from asset sales that he could use to indulge his fancy in the U.S. or Brazilian telecom markets.

Paper or plastic? Nein!          

Marketing influences our choices, right down to a neurological level.          

The Ford Motor Company (F) has released specifications for upcoming 2015 Ford Mustang GT, which is a tribute to a new fighter jet, the F35, which is entering the US Air force. Fans have been waiting for the specification...

A 1917 American LaFrance gets a new life as a car          

Instagram now has over 200 million users. The one thing that people keep asking its founder and CEO Kevin Systrom about that is: Did he sell too soon to Facebook and for too little money? Short answer: If he could have ...

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Maybe a higher minimum wage isn't so bad for job growth after all.

A frustrated Securities and Exchange Commission revealed that an investigation hindered by stonewalling government employees could balloon into the biggest insider trading case in history, implicating as many as 44...

For nearly two years, cocoa prices have been on the rise. Finally, that's affecting the price you pay for a bar of chocolate -- and there's reason to believe it's only the beginning. American chocolate giant Hershey's an...

Regardless of the reasons an article goes viral, when the eyes of the world are upon you, how can an entrepreneur convert the attention into a revenue stream and a sustainable business? We pushed Smith to share his secre...

Here be dragons. And one pissed-off cult. The new edition of the tabletop role-playing game that spawned them all isn’t just launching as a pen-and-paper product. It’s also coming to Neverwinter, the massively multip...

Like many startups, LinkedIn had its share of problems when it first started out.  In an interview with The Wall Street Journal's Andy Kessler, LinkedIn's founder and CEO Reid Hoffman explains that when LinkedIn was get...

The country is competing more aggressively with the United States, Britain and other nations to attract and keep educated people from abroad.

Guest Post: Reactions to #AmazonCart have been surprisingly mild, if not downright dismissive. But critics are missing the point.

Tasmania, with its huge poppy crop, is the top producer of a crucial raw material in prescription drugs. But companies fear that they depend too much on that harvest.

Tried-and-true negotiation tactics from author and negotiation expert Selena Rezvani.

Guest Post: I recently received the following email: I am in a bit of a dilemma and would really appreciate any insight you all have on what to do. Last month, my team worked with a designer to create a new homepage for ...

But retirement would be delayed until age 70 or 75

Midsized company CEOs enjoying growth should be warned by Comcast’s PR nightmare over its horrendous customer service.  They could be next.  Midsized companies are particularly vulnerable to such operational meltdown...

"Zombie shuffling" treadmill desk --- CHECK. Sh*t-strewn second desk --- CHECK. 3D printer --- CHECK. Socks with sandals --- CHECK. Hard-disk graveyard --- CHECK and RIP!

Guest Post: Instacart, currently the most well funded and fastest growing startup in the emerging food space is an anomaly. The evolution in food startups - from the scheduled warehouse deliveries of the past decade to t...