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It's an incredibly exciting time in mobile payments thanks to a number of shakeups that promise to turn the industry on its head.  In a new report from BI Intelligence, we look at the most important developments in t...

HomeAway CEO Brian Sharples has had one or two rude surprises over the past few weeks.          

America's been called a lot of things: beautiful, majestic, wild, and great. It's all those and more. Whether you're driving down the Pacific Coast Highway, whale watching in Cape Cod, or waiting for Old Faithful to erup...

It's scientifically proven that being overworked makes you less productive. Here's how to keep things in check when the going gets tough.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of Florida in October 2014. The peninsula is highly recognizable even at night, especially when looking roughly north, as our map-trained brains expe...

Google today released security testing tool Firing Range, a Java application that contains a wide range of XSS and a few other web vulnerabilities. A deployed version is available on Google App Engine and since the tool ...

Their signature red, beautifully-designed bodies turn heads at red carpet events.  Their engines are constructed to emit some of the most pleasing sounds on earth as you accelerate down the road.  Their posters dot the...

Traders working in their own ethnic group were more likely to drive prices to irrational levels than traders in mixed groups, a study found.

The US military's space defense command, or NORAD, is tracking an orbiting object that analysts speculate might be designed to fix -- or attack -- other satellites. Governments keep tabs (and so can you) on what's floati...

When you check into a hotel room, you assume the maid has cleaned everything. But a hidden camera investigation reveals that may not always be true.

In Hollywood, it's not unusual to have a few failed marriages. But for DreamWorks Animation and CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, his two failed merger talks have taken the company stock down...

A sharp slowdown in Asia and stagnation in Europe are putting the global economy at risk of a prolonged slump, economists say, marked in places by sky-high ­unemployment, sluggish wage growth and some of the worst econo...

To revive long-term growth, analysts say deep-seated changes to economies are needed, but such moves are politically difficult.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) - Halliburton's $34.6 billion price tag and hefty premium attached to its potential acquisition for smaller oilfield services company Baker Hughes may have had investors squirming on Monday, but anal...

Over the past few years several new companies have built tools to help automate investments. Called robo-advisors, these companies take several different approaches to help simplify investing. One of these companies is c...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- In a recent interview Gary Heminger, the chief executive of oil refiner Marathon Petroleum , told Jim Cramer that the company may benefit further from the recent fall in oil prices as it could dr...

Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia dealt a solid blow to Finland's technology industry, but the country to the east of the Baltic Sea is poised for another economic boom. Tech Times speaks with the CEO of BusinessOulu to f...

From not setting clear goals to becoming impatient, there are plenty of reasons they fail.

Twitter is building a searchable public index of tweets published from 2006 on. Though Twitter's mass of public tweets are already searchable via hashtags and keywords, Twitter has wanted to make its historic catalogue o...

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A judge has charged a Swiss private banking branch of HSBC with massive organized fiscal fraud, money laundering and forming a criminal organization.