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Not every star can walk through San Diego Comic-Con unnoticed.  Last year, Bryan Cranston and Hugh Jackman walked the floors of the annual comic and pop culture event disguised as characters they have played on TV and f...

Approximately 65 million years ago, when the dinosaurs went extinct, 75% of the planet's many species went with them. It was the world's fifth, and most recent, mass extinction event.  Now, according to a July 25 revie...

Sometimes even journalists get it right. My essay about companies incorporating overseas to dodge taxes clearly struck a nerve. Since its publication earlier this month, these corporate "inversions" -- a euphemism for "d...

BP Exploration Alaska has agreed to settle a complaint with the state and federal governments over four oil-related spills on Alaska's North Slope from 2007 to 2011.

After a shaky start to its IPO, Facebook's effective advertising sales innovations and strategic acquisitions have propelled it to spectacular growth. Benefiting directly from this is founder Mark Zuckerberg, who pockete...

Kellogg Company (K) announced a 6.5% increase in its quarterly dividends, to $0.49 per-share yesterday, bringing the company's dividend yield to 3% at the current price levels. The 6.5% growth rate is higher than the 4.3...

Brazil's oil regulator has approved Petroleo Brasileiro Petrobras SA's (ADR) (PBR) plan to upgrade the Marlim offshore oil field, the country's largest.

The Chinese box office grew by an astounding 27% to $3.6 billion in 2013, according to the Motion Picture Association of America. To put that number in comparison, China's $900 million dollars box office growth was more...

Earlier this year the internet went crazy for beautiful charts of IMDB ratings for episodes of TV shows over time, which showed when your favorite shows peaked. Created by data visualization guru Kevin Wu, Graph TV is ...

Jungle Wakudoki, a.k.a. the most delightful two minutes of your day

For those following along, you'll realize that yes, this is a follow-up to my lengthy article on Destiny's alpha I posted earlier this summer under a nearly identical name. I thought that format was effective for analysi...

Mac sales are up, PC sales are down. And in that shrinking market, Apple takes the lion's share of the profits

Winston Churchill once said that Russia "is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside and enigma". But not everyone is so baffled by the world's biggest country. The Socionomics Institute released a two part study that examin...

In the wake of a string of tech companies releasing their diversity statistics, the subject has become a hot debate around the internet. Y Combinator President Sam Altman thinks that's a dumb thing to debate. To Altman ...

What started off as a now-routine protest at one Market Basket location soon escalated into a veritable episode of "Cops," minus the trailing camera crew.

A driver for Uber, the ride-sharing service, likes his flexible hours. He's also pursuing a career as a film producer.

Alan "Ace" Greenberg, the executive who helped turn Bear Stearns into one of the world's biggest--and riskiest--securities firms, died of complications from cancer Friday at the age of 86.

New information indicates Arthur S. Demoulas at least considered a sale of Market Basket more than three years ago.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that your company has put less thought into the words that your employees use with customers than you've put into the language in your marketing campaigns and website.

After nearly two months of detention, a billionaire real estate developer that ranked No. 21 on last month’s new Forbes Taiwan Rich List has been released on bail by the Taipei District Court but charged with bribery a...

SAN FRANCISCO

The Commerce Department on Friday found that Chinese companies had dumped their products on the American market at below cost, and imposed duties of 10.74 percent to 55.49 percent.