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For his 670-square-foot New York apartment, interior designer Amir Khamneipur chose pieces that could do double-duty.

I had an interesting conversation with a person in the computer security industry a few weeks ago. This person is absolutely convinced that 2015 will be the year that some company goes out of business because they didn't...

Wednesday morning, The New York Times Magazine published a long adaptation of a book called "Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!" (Disclosure: The author of this post wrote both.) The Times story points out an int...

The Bank of Russia could spend almost a sixth of its $416 billion reserves to boost ruble and the country's stricken economy after its desperate move to increase the key interest rate failed to halt the currency's worst ...

Best-selling author and executive coach Marshall Goldsmith says that being awesome got you where you are, but believing your own press will make future improvement really hard.

Trading turmoil has dragged junk-bond returns into the red for the year, creating an opportunity for some buyers to re-enter the market in a search for bonds at bargain prices.

Tis the season for economic and business data to get messed up by—the season! Things are not normal this time of year. Shopping for clothing goes up, for building materials goes down, and woe be to the executive who do...

Which CEOs made the most egregious errors in 2014? This year we’ve got quite a variety, from Eddie Lampert at struggling 121-year-old retailer Sears, to the ousted bosses at clothing sellers Abercrombie and American Ap...

President Obama is set to make a statement on Cuba at noon ET.  The press conference follows news that American aid worker Alan Gross was released from prison in Cuba as part of a prisoner exchange as the US plans to "o...

Michael McFaul, former US ambassador to Moscow, told CNBC that there is "a sense of panic among [Russia's] elites right now" that could lead Russia's President Vladimir Putin to change his government. The Stanford profes...

Skills- and experience-laden job descriptions are at the root cause of why companies are having difficulty hiring enough strong people. There is a solution: First define the results required to be successful. Then find p...

Jeffrey Sprecher, CEO of Intercontinental Exchange and owner of the New York Stock Exchange, has begun his first major foray in overhauling the U.S. stock market. In a draft letter being circulated among large banks and ...

Shares of web-based small-business lender OnDeck Capital Inc. opened at $26.50, 32.5% above their initial public offering price Wednesday.

(Reuters) - Business sentiment among Asia's top companies rebounded in the fourth quarter to the second-highest level in almost three years, a Thomson Reuters/INSEAD survey showed, helped by a stronger U.S. economy and a...

Over the weekend, the Cromnibus budget deal passed the Senate by a 56-40 margin after narrow approval by the House. The outcome is a win for big corporations and wealthy campaign donors, and a huge letdown for 99 percent...

On the heels of news that major theater chains caved to scary threats by hackers and won't be showing Sony's "The Interview," New Regency announced that its new movie based in North Korea is also cancelled. The thriller ...

Federal Reserve officials took a delicate step toward raising short-term interest rates in 2015, introducing language into their policy statement that asserted they would be patient about moving away from near-zero short...

The number of law students this fall dropped nearly 7 percent from last year, according to the American Bar Association, and was 17.5 percent below the historic high enrollment in 2010.

U.S. stocks extended gains Wednesday after the Fed signaled that it was in no hurry to raise interest rates.

The government's candidate loses the first round of the presidential ballot, creating a path to power for Greece's euro-skeptic party.

As the year draws to a close, it's worth glancing over our shoulder. What technologies and themes were brightest in 2014?

The country's Finance Ministry said it was prepared to sell as much as $7 billion of its foreign currency reserves to support the ruble, which an official called "extremely undervalued."