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Score a win for "Breaking Bad."  Anna Gunn takes the award for Outstanding Supporting Actress at the Emmys. Gunn beat out Maggie Smith ("Downton Abbey"), Joanne Froggatt ("Downton Abbey"), Lena Headey ("Game of Thrones...

This post is sponsored by FlexPath by Capella University. Did you go to college and get a job right after graduation? Maybe you skipped college and started working or raising a family instead. In either case, getting mor...

ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, has gotten lots of attention for the terror it has brought to the Middle East. Unfortunately, this has attracted the wrong kind of attention to companies that coincidentally ...

On 8/28/14, RAIT Financial Trust's 8.375% Series B Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares (NYSE: RAS.PRB) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.5234, payable on 9/30/14. As a percentage of RAS.PRB's re...

In the U.S., August 26 marks Women's Equality Day. And although women's rights have come a long way since the passing of the 19th amendment nearly 100 years ago, gender inequality continues to be an issue across the coun...

Zagat just revealed the results of its big 2014 Burger Survey. This year, close to 3,500 Zagat users and self-proclaimed burger aficionados visited the restaurant-rating website to review the top hamburgers in 16 major c...

ESPN's Matthew Berry on how the principles of fantasy sports apply to business -- and life.

We all know that women are vastly underrepresented in the tech industry. We've seen some encouraging signs lately that this is changing, with more women enrolling in a prominent computer science university, a high-level ...

In an attempt to out "Adele Dazeem" John Travolta, Gwen Stefani presented the award for Best Variety, Music or Comedy Series to "The Colbore Report." Her "Voice" co-star Adam Levine corrected her after the fact, but the...

With its brand-new Ada Collection -- named after Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer --underwear company Dear Kate is taking a rather non-traditional approach to advertising.  The lookbook for the linger...

New York City now has a bike sharing program, but there are dozens of places where bicycles are the big thing.

This story has been updated from 11:34 am EDT with comments from a conference call with reporters. NEW YORK (The Deal) -- Burger King Worldwide aconfirmed Tuesday that it agreed to acquire Tim Hortons ain an $11 billion ...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of Burger King Worldwide Inc. are down by -3.15% to $31.38 on heavy volume in early afternoon trading on Tuesday, reversing the gain the stock began in pre-market trading following its Tim ...

Jeff Bezos' controversial spending streak is far from over. The Amazon boss struck his biggest deal ever by paying $970 for gaming startup Twitch. Including stock compensation for employees, the...

Say. Their. Name. "Breaking Bad" continues to sweep the Emmys taking home the biggest award of the the night, Outstanding Drama Series. The final season of AMC's hit drama had steep competition from two HBO series, "Gam...

Amazon.com is already a go-to destination for shoppers, bookworms, and music and movie fans. Now it'll also be the virtual home for millions of hard-core video gamers.

I cannot underestimate how hard Jackie Robinson West-mania gripped Chicagoland as the local Little Leaguers advanced their way to the U.S. championship and a shot at the world title against South Korea, which they lost, ...

The 2015 Ford F-150 is beginning production this week for late-2014 delivery. The retooling process is unique in that most of the new F-150 will be made of aluminum, yielding a weight savings of 700 pounds per vehicle.

Consumers are turning their backs on Best Buy stores, but are they acting too rashly?

Lumiata, a company that provides analytics that rely on a database of medical knowledge raised $5 million according to a recent SEC filing.

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The reality of air travel in the 21st century is that flying economy is unpleasant. Airlines are cutting service and packing planes to improve razor thin profit margins, while flights aren't getting any shorter. And cust...