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The identity of Banksy, the ever-elusive graffiti artist who has risen to superstar status over the past 20 years, is still unknown to the general public. But that hasn't stopped him from selling art pieces for millions...

Good morning! Here's what you need to know for Friday. 1. The US military said Thursday that forces in Iraq are "months away from being able to start waging any kind of sustained ground offensive against the Islamic St...

The world will celebrate Pablo Picasso's 133rd birthday on October 25. So how did master model builder Veronica Watson prepare for such an occasion? She spent a day and a half recreating "Guernica" entirely from LEGO. An...

The top SEO trends to consider when building strategies and budgets for 2015.

The Great Swedish Sub Hunt is over. Nearly a week after a potential Russian submarine was spotted in the Stockholm Archipelago, the Swedish authorities are calling off their search, ending a saga in which the Scandinavia...

Good morning. Before you hit the weekend, read up on the most important advertising stories of today. 1. People are beginning to talk seriously about Google's search business becoming less relevant. Google could become a...

Risk sentiment suffers fresh setback on Ebola in New York; Caterpillar, 3M earnings underpin sentiment

Amazon's Q3 earnings were a disappointment, missing analyst expectations across the board. It pushed the stock down as much as 12.89% in after-hours trading. But every cloud has a silver lining, and there's one in Amazon...

US Military Central Command released declassified footage of a US airstrike against the jihadist group Islamic State (also known as ISIS and ISIL). In a statement sent to reporters along with the clip, CENTCOM described ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company's cloud computing business is on track to generate $4.4 billion in revenue this year, if sales keep up the way they've been going. Another way of saying that: Microsoft's clou...

Halloween is right around the corner, which means that you're probably desperately searching for last-minute costume ideas. But that's no excuse for being unoriginal. Every year, there are those costumes that you can't s...

Few things say "you've made it" like owning an island home. But even among those who can afford such a luxury, some islands are much more coveted than others. In their latest Candy GPS Report, Savills, Candy & Candy, and...

Get ready for tiny cars filled with vintage clothing and irony.

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A partner at legendary venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Steve Jurvetson currently sits on the boards of SpaceX, Synthetic Genomics, and Tesla Motors. We talked with him about electric cars, colonizing Mars, ...

If all 50 states legalized marijuana and the federal government ended prohibition of the plant, the marijuana industry in the United States would be worth $35 billion just six years from now. That's according to a new re...

Social Security numbers, driver's licenses and other sensitive data of 300K clients posted online.          

Looking to communicate in Mandarin like Mark Zuckerberg on your next business trip, only you don't have his fluency? Here are the best mobile apps to break the language barrier.

Thomas Built Buses says it will add 236 full-time jobs at its High Point facility, choosing the Triad site over its South Carolina plant.

In a telling quote, influential International Olympic Committee member Gian-Franco Kasper told CNN that the 2014 Sochi Olympics was too expensive. "Russia did what [Switzerland] did in our ski resorts in 150 years in fi...

Donna Karan is selling a seven-acre portion of her 10-acre beachfront estate (known as "The Sanctuary") in Turks and Caicos for $39 million. Currently listed with Christie's International Realty, the Caribbean island pro...

The $20,000 retirement plan