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If you watched the MTV Video Music Awards live on television, you weren't watching them the right way. MTV ran a handful of live action feeds online during the show that were more entertaining than the broadcast on telev...

You just landed your dream job. Congratulations! After offering you the position, the hiring manager goes over all the details of your new gig: start date, salary, manager's name, and dress code -- which, she says, is "s...

Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj, and singer Jessie J. opened up MTV's Video Music Awards with a showstopping performance of their three hit songs of the summer. Grande opened the awards show with "Break Free" in a sparkly sil...

On his blog SportChart, Tomer Cohen charted the average height and weight of athletes in nearly a dozen major sports. It gives you some pretty interesting perspective on just how big NBA and NFL players are, and shows ho...

Ben Hueso, a California State Senator who voted for more regulation on ride-sharing apps like Uber and Lyft, was arrested early Friday morning for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol, according to the Sacr...

Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande may have opened the MTV Video Music Awards with a showstopper; however, no one closes out an awards show like Queen Bey. Beyoncé shut down the VMAs with an epic 16-minute medley of a dozen ...

The Swedish furniture giant and Airbnb Australia are teaming up to offer three families an overnight stay in Ikea showrooms.

Big companies trade at multiples of income that are two or three times that of smaller companies in the same industry. So how do you get a buyer to pay a big company premium for your business without becoming a billion d...

Small business will change dramatically in 20-30 years. Will you be ready?

Mark Cuban put his business power on display on Monday when he plugged the website of a cookie company he's invested in during a radio interview. This apparently flooded the website with traffic, briefly crashing it with...

The Chinese movie industry has never been so shocked as it's been by two 31-year-old Forbes celebrities: Guo Jingming and Han Han. Guo's Tiny Times 3 is the latest sequel of a film franchise adapted from his own novel of...

On 8/27/14, BCE Inc.'s Series AB Preferred Shares (Toronto: BCE-PRB) will trade ex-dividend, for its monthly dividend of $0.0625, payable on 9/12/14. As a percentage of BCE.PRB's recent share price of $22.66, this divide...

Hotels are finding new ways to squeeze more money out of travelers, even for items they don't use. Guests face a growing number of fees for guaranteeing bed types, storing luggage and having an in-room safe. (Aug. 25)

Roche says it will pay $8.3 billion for a California biotech firm that has yet to turn a profit on a new drug to treat a deadly lung disease, the latest gamble by a pharmaceutical giant to buy its way into a lucrative co...

Burger King is in talks to buy Canadian coffee-and-doughnut chain Tim Hortons in a deal that would be structured as a so-called tax inversion and move the hamburger seller's base to Canada.

Game streaming site Twitch just sold to Amazon for $970 million in cash, and it's a big win for everyone involved, including Twitch's investors. The company last raised money one year ago at a $100 million valuation, a s...

In a world of increasing specialization, the people in your organization that blur the lines between functional areas are incredibley valuable.

While writing a book may seem like a distant dream, today it's easier than ever to get your wisdom bound in a tome that can be used as everything from a marketing tool to a platform for speaking engagements.

An economics professor has found a way to estimate U.S. employment more quickly and accurately than the government can -- by using Twitter data.

Google may be dominating the online advertising business, but Facebook could be readying a new ad strategy to take some of that spotlight off the search engine giant, reports Tom Dotan and Amir Efrati at The Information....

The Dallas Cowboys team up with Hublot to create three new limited-edition luxury watches.

On August 24, 1814, British forces occupied Washington, D.C. and set fire to public buildings including the White House and the Capitol. The action was taken partly in retaliation for America's destruction of private pro...