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It's been a decade since Google made its initial public offering. We now look back at the company's significant milestones since it went public.

Peter Diamond, an MIT professor who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2010, told The Telegraph that, "Historians are going to tar and feather Europe's central bankers." Diamond told The Telegraph's Ambrose Evans-Pritc...

Payroll Taxes are Pursued Aggressively by the IRS, with Personal Liability For Owners, Officers, and Check Signers. And Some Violations Mean Jail.

There's been a lot of debate since the ALS ice bucket challenge started a few weeks ago. Many are debating its worth if so many people are simply dumping water over their heads and not making meaningful donations. But ma...

Dr. Kent Brantly, the American treated in Atlanta for Ebola, has been released from the hospital and declared cured of the terrifying disease. But why are doctors in Africa so at risk of the disease in the first place? D...

The deal should bolster VMware's growing virtual desktop assets and continue to help the company diversify away from server virtualization.

How does wealth change a person? Social psychologist Paul Piff studies the empathy gap - a term that describes how people from different social class groups interact. As part of that research, he ran a study designed to ...

As a kid, Adrian Westaway loved two things: magic and making inventions. Now, as co-founder of a London-based design and invention studio called Special Projects, he has combined both of those hobbies into one fascinatin...

It was invented more than 70 years ago, but experts continue to regard the Chemex Coffeemaker as one of the best-designed products ever made. Here's why.

Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates declined this week, with the 30-year loan rate hitting its low for the year.

That was quick. It wasn't long ago that Sprint and T-Mobile were supposed to be linking up. Then -- though not to analysts' surprise -- the deal fell through in the face of regulatory skepticism. Now, T-Mobile has turned...

Nine West recently offended swaths of women with a new advertising campaign that celebrates "husband hunting." Critics blasted the campaign as outdated and misogynistic. But branding experts say it was actually a smart m...

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen faces the biggest public challenge of her brief tenure when she delivers a speech at the central bank's annual pow-wow in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on Friday. And, millions of Americans' jo...

Johnny Depp blurs the lines between his life and his films. His wardrobe – the weather-beaten hats, wrinkled shirts, stained bandanas poking out from the back of his shredded jeans that are barely held together by duct...

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Gold pressured after hawkish minutes from the latest Fed meeting show central bankers surprised at speed of jobs recovery.

(Reuters) - Dollar General Corp questioned whether Family Dollar Stores Inc Chief Executive Howard Levine was being driven by self-interest in his support of a proposed takeover of his company by Dollar Tree Inc .

An Atlanta federal judge is expected to order the operators of a fraudulent diet program to pay $40 million for violating a May court order to pull their product from shelves. The Federal Trade Commission said the judgme...

In 2002, when Michael Bloomberg first took office as mayor of New York City, the controversial law enforcement policy known as "stop-and-frisk" led to 97,296 encounters on the city's street. Police stopped -- and sometim...

Amazon’s high-profile signing this week of a memorandum of understanding to set up a logistics warehouse and a cross-border e-commerce platform in Shanghai is an effort to move more deeply into a China e-commerce marke...

Rush Limbaugh knows a thing or two about about facing professional fallout from ESPN.

My vision is of workplaces -- and a world -- where men and women lead and succeed together. My focus is on gender diversity in leadership of the business world. My vision will occur when leaders recognize the value of bo...