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We usually think of food as fuel. Just fill up your tank during lunch, then get back to work.  But "Best Place To Work" author Ron Friedman says the analogy is dangerously flawed, since certain foods can cause your pro...

Last month, I explained how to save $96 a year on your Comcast bill. Based on information provided by Forbes readers, we now think we'll be able to save them more like $1,000 on your Comcast and AT&T bill.

When it comes to taking action against bullies at work, you may be tempted to get aggressive with your tormentor. Find out how to settle things in a better way.

a BALTIMORE (Stockpickr) --aPut down the 10-K filings and the stock screeners. It's time to take a break from the traditional methods of generating investment ideas. Instead, let the crowd do it for you. Must Read: 12 St...

Clothing store "Free People" has opened a "Spirituality Shop" and is selling sticks and logs wrapped in yarn for $68. Free People, which has a Woodstock vibe, is also selling crystals and dreamcatchers, reports Death and...

Developing a successful cultural direction for your workplace may seem like one of a thousand tasks to complete as a new CEO. Nevertheless, it is one of the most important ongoing responsibilities for any business leader...

The so-bad-it's-good whisky is cultivating quite a fan base of late.

The ideas industry needs to stop monkeying around.

The $25 million donation from Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan to help fight the largest Ebola outbreak in history means that the couple will become one of the major supporters of the response. We took a look at some o...

Investors with share-dealing service Selftrade have been asked to decide between switching to Equiniti or taking their custom elsewhere. Cris Sholto Heaton weighs up the options. The post What should Selftrade investors ...

What's the difference between someone who makes $1 million and someone who makes $1 billion? According to John Sviokla and Mitch Cohen, authors of "The Self-Made Billionaire Effect: How Extreme Producers Create Massive V...

Dubai's Burj Khalifa is the tallest tower in the world at 2,722 feet tall with 160 floors. And now it also has the highest observation deck on level 148 -- a stunning 1,821 feet above the ground. It beat out the previous...

The NBA's new multibillion-dollar TV deal will kick in for the 2016-17 season, raising the salary cap by several million dollars and changing the landscape of the NBA. For both players and owners, this is good news: mor...

A core competency doesn't happen overnight, but it's well worth the time and effort.

Some of the best shows ever didn't stay on TV for as long as they should have. That's just how it is in the cut-throat TV industry, where impatient network executives are focused only on last night's ratings. Indeed, som...

Sarepta Therapeutics Inc (SRPT) stock soared on Thursday as the biotech announced positive study results from human tests for its anti-Ebola drug candidate.

Two child sex trafficking victims have filed a lawsuit against Backpage.com that paints a disturbing picture of how thousands of kids are sold for sex every year in the US. The two survivors, who are now 17 and 20, clai...

Head of U.S. central bank says we should question whether growing income inequality 'is compatible with values rooted in our nation's history.'

Only nine of the top 50 fast-food restaurant chains opened more than 100 stores in the U.S. last year -- that's down from 11 chains in 2012, industry trade publication QSR Magazine recently found. Who opened the most uni...

Do you remember that time, I think it was a year or so ago, when you decided that your life was going to change? "That's it!" you said. "I've had enough! No more dancing to the beat of somebody else's drum! No more not d...

Don't let poor lunch decisions derail your day.

A former top Chinese railway official was convicted of taking nearly $8 million in bribes and given a suspended death sentence, a court said Friday.