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Douglas McCain, a Minnesotan who had been killed fighting alongside ISIS, was childhood best friends with another American who had joined an al Qaeda-linked terror group fighting in Somalia.  One of McCain's closest chi...

Jennifer Aniston, Sandra Bullock, and Mary McCormack all appeared on Chelsea Handler's final "Chelsea Lately" episode Tuesday night on E! to bid adieu to their late-night host friend. But it wasn't just a goodbye after...

During the second quarter PayPal-owned Venmo overtook the Starbucks mobile payment app in terms of U.S. transaction volume, according to BI Intelligence estimates.  Venmo transaction volume reached $468 million in the s...

Many of us have enjoyed internet memes in some capacity, whether it's laughing at pictures of the Overly Attached Girlfriend or playing a 10-hour loop of Nyan Cat. However, it often seems like a mystery how such things c...

Burger King's $11.4-billion deal for Canadian coffee-and-doughnut chain Tim Hortons Inc. -- with a new headquarters in Canada -- sparked calls for a boycott and criticism of billionaire Warren Buffett, who is helping to ...

In the decade since the late C.K. Prahalad first published the ideas that became the basis of the influential book The Fortune At The Bottom Of The Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits business leaders have been ...

This article is by Helen Firth, senior VP at Added Value, a global marketing consultancy.

When it comes to hiring the perfect person, there's a lot of information to wade through to narrow down your choices. Between resumes, cover letters, and job applications, it can take hours to filter out the best candida...

Successful negotiations now require creative marketing, sales and strategy; not the traditional "pound the table" tactics of the past. However, one thing remains constant in business: you don't get what you deserve, you ...

Christine Lagarde, the chief of the International Monetary Fund, was placed Wednesday under official investigation for negligence in a French corruption probe that dates back to her days as France's…

The American bull market looks more and more like the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s

The Standard & Poor's 500 stock index, a widely watched measure of a broad array of stocks, closed above the 2,000 level for the first time as investors pushed aside worries over global unrest to focus on the improving d...

In case you've been living under a rock for the past few weeks, people have been dumping buckets of ice water on their heads in Facebook videos and nominating their friends to do the same. They're doing it to raise awar...

ABC's "Modern Family" won its fifth-consecutive Emmy for Best Comedy Series on Monday night, joining "Frasier" (1994-1998) as the only comedy to win so many in a row. But does the show really deserve its status as a...

These entrepreneurs live with their parents (and swear by it).

"99 Bottles of Beer" was just taken to new heights, literally. Austin Beerworks, a local Austin brewery, is offering a 99-pack of their award-winning Peacemaker ale for $99 dollars. The case is called "Anytime Ale." T...

Russia's economy is creeping closer to recession, officials said Tuesday, while Western sanctions over the Ukraine conflict strangle growth and push up inflation. "The economy is close to recession," Oleg Zasov, head of ...

Yingli Green Energy Hold. Co. Ltd. (ADR) (YGE) is down almost 6% as of 11:50am EDT after the company reported its quarterly results for the second quarter of fiscal '14 (2QFY14; ended June 30), which missed estimates on ...

Michaels Companies Inc. (MIK) posted earnings results for the second quarter of its fiscal year 2014 (2QFY14, ended August 2, 2014), just before the markets opened today.

How does one work and deal with a "tiger mom" boss? This question was originally answered on Quora by Jane Chin.

While Richard Branson's new book, "The Virgin Way" is "about listening, learning, laughing and leading", applying the BRAVE leadership framework to the book's ten summary ideas yields highly applicable insights

The product that's gradually phasing out Thomas Edison's most famous invention gives new meaning to the word 'disruptive.'