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Last week, Argentina defaulted for a second time. What are the implications for the country - and for the rest of the world? Matthew Partridge reports. The post Argentina's default explained was first published on MoneyW...

Here's what crime fighting turtles can teach you about growing a company.

Last weekend, the Kickstarter project to make Potato Salad became famous when it raised  $55,492 from 6,911 backers, and creator Zach Brown's Youtube parody video went viral. It states, "Together, we’re building a m...

What are the best languages for getting into functional programming? This question was originally answered on Quora.

Whether it's music, movies, transportation, cleaning services, or food delivery, industries are being transformed by a so-called "Uber for X" model. The latest market to be flooded by delivery apps: the liquor store. I s...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- News Corp.  fell Friday after the company reported fourth-quarter earnings that missed analysts' expectations. The company, which owns The Wall Street Journal, reported net income of $12 millio...

But for premium shoppers who don't want to go all out, it's a great value buy.          

Starbucks is planning a massive expansion in China over the next couple years that will nearly double its locations in the country. It might seem risky for a coffee company to expand so aggressively in a culture of tea-d...

Great Gatsby lives here. A look at the top 10 most desirable places to live, work and invest in second homes among the world's one-percenters.

The segment of the swollen U.S. prison population that poses the least threat to public safety also presents the greatest financial burden on taxpayers, highlights a new report from The Osborne Association, an advocacy o...

IBM's 'brain chip' could help computers surpass the human mind -- by mimicking it.          

The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) released a report today, saying that passenger vehicles sales in China increased 9.7% in the month of July. This is lower than the 11.5% and 13.9% growth in sales ...

Pam Murphy has been the Chief Operating Officer at Infor since October 2011. Prior to assuming that role, she served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Operations. She has been with Infor since December 2010. Prior to...

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(Reuters) - Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is facing a mounting wave of lawsuits by women who allege that the company knew about possible serious side effects of its blockbuster anti-cholesterol drug Lipitor but never prope...

Almost half of American households were struggling five years after the Great Recession, according to a new study published by the Federal Reserve survey of consumers. Many of households were financially strained with ti...

SACRAMENTO -- A federal grand jury Thursday handed down new and expanded corruption charges against investment deal "placement agent" Alfred J.R. Villalobos, a central figure in the 2009 influence-peddling scandal that r...

Cheap credit, lower tax bills and a desire for revenue, more than economic optimism, may be behind this year's surge in corporate acquisitions.

A nature photographer claims copyright to a viral monkey selfie taken from his own camera, but Wikimedia Commons is adamant about keeping the photo in the public domain.

China's red hot real estate market starts to burn some home owners with foreclosure.

Time Warner boss Jeff Bewkes is eating a little crow. The media executive, whose empire includes pay-TV giant HBO, famously dissed Reed Hastings' Netflix back in 2010, saying the streaming...

While the move to cut hours does not amount to a layoff, there's a chance part-time workers could be losing out on more than their weekly wages.