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It's the battle of the undies: Supermodels Elle Macpherson and Heidi Klum are going cheek to cheek in the highly competitive lingerie market, Julie Earle-Levine says. Macpherson, who just turned...

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Guest Post: I hope you didn't miss the Salesforce.com Dreamforce keynote this week in San Francisco. It's probably the most entertaining 2 hours you'll spend in the enterprise technology business all year. I realize that...

Retail snobs love to deride the temporary Halloween shops that have sprung up across the five boroughs this fall. "One of those crappy Spirit Halloween pop-ups is coming to the...

Black holes are the only objects in the universe that can trap light by sheer gravitational force. They're thought to be what anchors galaxies -- some of the largest objects in the universe. And what happens past their e...

Your decision to use a car rental company's wallet should be based more on its service

The Internet of Things is on track to be an absolutely huge market.  BI Intelligence predicts that by 2019: IoT device shipments will reach 6.7 billion. Revenues from devices, services, and software will reach $600 bill...

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Amid mounting fears of another financial slowdown, America's banks are rebounding the old-fashioned way -- by firing thousands of workers. Some of the US job losses were expected, as banks...

Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly said on Sunday that he's more confused about the controversial call at the end of the Florida State game now than he was on Saturday night. Kelly's team lost 31-27 when a game-winning Notre D...

The St. Louis Rams drew up one of the more whimsical trick plays you'll ever see in an NFL game, and it worked to perfection. On a punt return in the second quarter against the Seattle Seahawks, the Rams pretended to cat...

The owner of two Mississippi cottonseed processing facilities may close one plant because of reduced cotton acreage.

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Raoul Weil has gone on trial for aiding tax evasion. IN 2008 Bradley Birkenfeld, an American working for UBS, blew the whistle on the giant Swiss bank's offshore operations, which had helped thousands of rich Americans t...

In the pantheon of odd market indicators, the Barron's magazine cover is probably one of the more unreliable contrarian indicators followed by many (See here, here, here, here, here, and here). So, don't be surprised on ...

Apple Inc. (AAPL) unveiled two of its latest tablet devices in the recently held special launch event. While the iPad Air 2 has impressed techies around the world with some serious upgrades and sleek look, the TouchID se...

The final holiday quarter of the year is retailers' do-or-die moment. Recently, all the growth is online.  We estimate that there will be $100 billion in online sales in the fourth quarter this year, a 16% increase over...

Early indications suggest DoubleLine, Metropolitan West, and Dodge & Cox may be benefiting from Bill Gross' departure.

Silicon Valley has changed a lot over the past few decades. Back in 1991, storage company Seagate had a poster that showed the biggest companies in the area. A few, like IBM and Apple, are iconic. Many others no longer e...

In times gone by, when enterprises sought to shave costs off non-core processes, or add capabilities not immediately available in their organizations, they turned to third-party providers.  Now, they're more likely to f...

Here's a mystery! IBM just made this announcement: ARMONK, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- IBM (IBM) will make a major business announcement and separately release its third-quarter 2014 earnings results on Monday, October 20 at...