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The Radiohead frontman's new album, "Tomorrow's Modern Boxes," is now available for $6 over BitTorrent. In 2013, Radiohead's Thom Yorke called Spotify the "last desperate fart of a dying corpse." Translation: Spotify sti...

Here's this week's episode of the Jay and Farhad show. As usual, it's me and New York Times tech columnist Farhad Manjoo running through some of the biggest stories in tech this week.  We record this podcast on a weekl...

High-street retailer Mothercare has issued a £100m rights issue. Should you buy in? Phil Oakley investigates. The post Company in the news: Mothercare was first published on MoneyWeek.

Last year, Google said it was moving away from the crazy brainteasers it used to ask people in job interviews in favor of structured, behavioral queries like, "Give me an example of a time when you solved an analytically...

Britain could soon join the U.S. and its allies in bombing ISIS -- but any mission will come with a huge price tag. The UK parliament has approved airstrikes in Iraq against the terror group.

XI'AN, China -- They don't want to work in factories or farms, but at the same time, the white-collar lifestyle remains far out of reach. For the 7.27 million Chinese students who graduated from college last year -- a nu...

Someone stands to make a killing once the rest of the world wakes up to the fact that insects are the food of the future. The world is finally catching up to what dozens of countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America ha...

Austin, Texas-based Tito's Handmade Vodka has been hit with a lawsuit alleging its signature product isn't actually made by hand.

A Chinese probe into trade financing finds nearly $10 billion in fake deals, a senior official says, in the latest warning over practices that raises concern over potential losses among foreign and Chinese banks this yea...

Prosecutors in California's two biggest cities say the ride-share programs are breaking the law

Yahoo may learn from AOL how to fend off an activist investor, and that lesson is instructive for all business owners.

The Sensex gained 157.96 points to 26,626.32, while the rupee rose to 61.10 per dollar compared with Thursday's close of 61.35

Crude-oil futures moved in a narrow price range in Asian hours Friday, with market participants suggesting that weak oil prices appear to have largely stabilized.

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A small Chicago church that received a $1.6 million windfall from the sale of property it had helped developed in the 1970s surprised its congregation by giving each of them $500 earlier this month. The LaSalle Street Ch...

The 2014-2015 season's soybean and wheat crops are on track to set records, while rice and corn look poised to be more in line with last season's record crops. Soybean production is expected to hit 310 million tons, abou...

A study of analyst recommendations at the major brokerages shows that Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) is the #28 broker pick, on average, out of the 30 stocks making up the Dow Jones Industrial Average, according to ETF Ch...

I just had a Skype chat with entrepreneur Olivier Jeannel about his new product. It was a text chat, as Olivier - just like roughly 70 million people in the world (of which approximately 26 million of Americans) - suffer...

Psychologists and educators are developing programs to help young people increase their mental toughness. What can you learn from their findings?

To re-create a bloody scene from the 1981 horror flick "American Werewolf in London," crews at Universal Studios Hollywood installed computer-controlled strobe lights behind the walls of a dark maze to simulate the flash...

Pimco's Bill Gross is struggling to meet his own standards, writes David Weidner.

One of the biggest frustrations for city dwellers is about to be solved with an app (of course)... if you live in San Antonio and a few other cities.