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President Barack Obama is already taking heat for his decision to back off a much-touted pledge to take executive action on immigration reform by the end of summer. "The President has shown that, once again, he has been...

Lavish deal full of tax incentives reaffirms CEO Elon Musk as a maestro of public subsidiesLavish deal full of tax incentives reaffirms CEO Elon Musk as a maestro of public subsidies

Many NFL teams are following the leads of other sports -- dropping prices for less desirable games while jacking up costs for the biggest matchups.

Business owners were howling on Friday over a federal appeals court decision that appears to open the door for Yelp to base its reviews on whether a business advertises with...

Weekend Investor: Some high earners live paycheck to paycheck, leading a lifestyle they can't afford. Here's how to break the cycle.

Natural gas is the neglected stepchild of the alternative fuel vehicles industry.

If you thought Apple's products were beautiful and easy to use before, just wait. Apple has hired one of the world's most famous product designers, Marc Newson. Newson is close friends with Apple's rock star in-house des...

The Amazon Web Services cloud begs for investment as it keeps growing around the world. And Amazon needs to spend on other stuff -- like set-top boxes. So the money should come in handy.

Blockbuster's fatal flaw wasn't one of intelligence or capability, but a failure to understand the networks that would determine its fate.

Getty Images takes copyright issues seriously. For disregarding the rights of owners of copyrighted images, it is suing Microsoft for its Bing Image Widget.

Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Gear VR headset will cost $199, a Samsung spokesperson at New York Fashion Week told VentureBeat this evening. Two days ago Samsung unveiled the Gear VR, a virtual reality headset made in part...

Thanks to a revamp in its sales and marketing operations, Mercedes-Benz offsets a drop in its home market with great performance in the U.S. and China.

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Yahoo buys ad photo network Luminate

The world fully expects to catch a glimpse of Apple's newest product next week, a smartwatch commonly called the iWatch. Apple may just tease the new device and it won't be available for immediate sale. But as Apple cont...

A California bill that supporters say could have shifted campaign finance into a new era of transparency was instead involuntarily withdrawn last week -- and the activists behind the bill are blaming the labor unions tha...

Global central bank actions shouldn't derail the Fed's plan to raise rates next year, but the hikes will likely be gradual, says Morningstar's Bob Johnson.

Park City Mountain Resort will have to pay $17.5 million to stay open this winter during an ongoing court battle between two ski titans.

It used to be the man made the company. Great businesses were personified in the figures of their visionary bosses like Jack Welch, Michael Ovitz, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs, around whom a carefully constructed hierarchy...

On Friday Apple told Vanity Fair that it had hired industrial designer Marc Newson to join Jony Ive's design team.  Newson is one of a string of high-profile hires Apple has made recently in a perceived effort by Tim Co...

A Wyoming judge has signed a decree to end 37 years of water-rights cases in the Big Horn River basin and set how much water is to be allocated to federal, tribal and state interests.

A southeast Nebraska agriculture manufacturing plant will close part of its operations and eliminate more than half its workforce by November.