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Young teenagers want to know if they're pretty, so they upload videos to YouTube posing the question to hundreds of thousands of strangers. "People at school will tell me I'm ugly, but then my friends will say I'm pretty...

iRobot, a Massachusetts company, has shipped more than 10 million Roomba robotic vacuums since the device launched in 2002, and it's shipping over 1 million Roomba units annually. In a new report from BI Intelligence�...

When ISIS ransacked Iraqi army bases during its June blitz through the country's north and west, the radical jihadist group emerged with a number of possible next targets. With its new armor and materiel in tow, it coul...

How the golden rule of customer service makes employees resentful and untrusting.

An employee isn't designed to be treated like a piece of a machine—like a cog or like a bolt. For a leader to treat employees this way is immoral. It also doesn’t make business sense: A bolt can’t stretch to help a...

Titans from earlier heydays of computing have both seen recent increases that outstripped the cloud-computing industry generally, according to industry reports.

Social media went crazy after Musk made news for two very different reasons.

Vanguard Natural Resources, LLC (VNR) announced the signing of an agreement with Hunt Oil Company to acquire 23,000 acres of land which currently produces 17.5 MMcfe per day, which consist of 67% natural gas and 33% oil ...

If you work out, you'll love this.

James Brady, a former White House press secretary, who became a leading advocate for gun control after he was shot in an assasination attempt against President Ronald Reagan in 1981 died Monday at the age of 73-years-old...

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Something so integral to the success of a brand when acquiring a new agency -- the pitch process -- is notoriously flawed. Long lead times, long pitch lists, layers of consensus needed to select a partner, meaningless pa...

Profits for companies in the S&P 500 Index are expected to grow an average of 4.9 percent in the second quarter -- their lowest advance in a year and far...

Saks Fifth Avenue, one of the world's preeminent specialty retailers is renowned for its superlative American and international designer collections, an expertly edited assortment of apparel, accessories, jewelry, cosmet...

The stock market staged a late-day rally Monday, helping push the Dow Jones industrial average higher for the first time in a week. Investors had a couple pieces of positive news to get behind: a decent earnings report f...

Last November, scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Ocean Systems Laboratory took an autonomous shark-stalking robot to Guadalupe, Mexico to track and film great white sharks. Two weeks ago, they releas...

Are you an employee at a company that is financially corrupt, or engaging in cover-ups of unethical or illegal behavior? If you're thinking of blowing the whistle on corporate malfeasance--or any wrongdoing anywhere!--I ...

Starting Monday, passersby around the country will stumble across classic pieces of art on their daily commute. A project called Art Everywhere is coming to the US after launching in the UK last year. The project is repl...

An Amtrak Acela Express train left New York's Penn Station over the weekend without its passengers, The New York Daily News reports. Eighty-five passengers waiting to board the Washington D.C.-bound high-speed train we...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) - As of the middle of last year, Berkshire Hathaway had the most cash located in the U.S. of any corporation based in this country, surpassing both Apple and Verizon . The data, while it comes with...

(Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co said it would sue former Autonomy Chief Financial Officer Sushovan Hussain after he sought to block HP's settlement of three shareholder lawsuits over its troubled purchase of the British s...

My close friend, Greg, has spent the last 5 years complaining about Acura's sedan offerings. He bought a new 2004 Acura TL a decade ago and loved it. His opinion wasn't unique, as the 2004 TL was the best-selling model ...