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When a person walks into your company or your department, the slate is clean. It doesn't matter what they did or didn't do before. It doesn't matter whether your team hit their goals last quarter or missed them by a mile...

Based on the most recent release of the Human Development Index by the United Nations Development Programme, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the most and least livable countries. Data from the Human Development Index is based on ...

After the "Avengers: Age of Ultron" trailer hit the web late Wednesday evening, fans have been obsessively rewatching the teaser for clues and hints about the upcoming movie. Almost immediately, eagle-eyed viewers honed ...

Michigan single mom finds a way out of a mountain of debt.          

Facebook’s News Feed is broken! Facebook is only showing me stupid stuff! My News Feed is boring! Facebook is lame! The News Feed is useless! If any of those exclamations sound familiar, this quick guide is for you and...

Guest Post: Ordering a Big Mac will never be the same.

On Sunday, the European Central Bank released the results of "stress tests" performed on 130 eurozone banks. Twenty-five banks failed. There's a bit of a split on whether or not these results were good. But there is no d...

A number of my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students have asked my opinion of Robert Greene's The 48 Laws Of Power, prompting me to check it out. Given the book's commercial success, I had high hopes. Sadly, I was di...

Smartphone voice options such as Google Now and Siri are slowly getting better, and at moments can be almost charming. The technology is going to improve dramatically in the near…

If there's one ironic drawback to most laptops, it's that you can't use them directly on your lap for an extended amount of time. Without proper ventilation, they get too hot, which is bad for the computer, and bad for y...

THE announcement this week that China's economy had grown by 7.3% in the third quarter year-on-year was widely seen as marking the country's "new normal" of slower growth. It was well below the roughly 10% pace China had...

Deutsche Bank AG (DB) is warming up to face a penalty of almost 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) in regards to its participation in the LIBOR rigging scandal in an investigation by the Federal Reserve as well as the Financ...

Twitter Inc (TWTR) is set to report results for the third quarter of its 2014 fiscal year (3QFY14) on Monday. Here is what most investors need to look out for:

Experts say oil prices would have to drop far lower before U.S. producers hit the brakes.          

The paper published its first issue on Oct. 27, 1764, a one-page edition of what then was called The Connecticut Courant.

KIEV, Ukraine -- Two exit polls indicate that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's party will secure a narrow win in Sunday's parliamentary election, falling substantially short of an outright majority. The Rating Grou...

Tax-exempt fixed-income issues scheduled for pricing this week.

NEW YORK -- The spirits moved Ouija to No. 1 at the box office, with the board-game adaption leading the weekend with a $20 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday. The horror movie release, timed to Hallowee...

Halle Berry is not only an Academy Award-winning actress, but also a global visionary. She announced earlier this week that she is launching the iconic French lingerie brand, Scandale Paris, in select Target stores and o...

The Obama administration is pushing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) to end the mandatory quarantines for health care workers returning from treating Ebola patients in West Africa, th...

The historic announcements by HBO and CBS that they are breaking lose from cable bundles, to be offered a la carte, was in no doubt big news. But really - it’s too little and too late. That ship has sailed. There’s a...

The only thing needed to make this beautiful autumn weekend complete was a visit to F.P.Journe's Madison Avenue boutique. Though it was hard for me to resist Mr. Journe's spectacular tourbillons, the fairly new Octa Spor...