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Sony Corporation (NYSE:SNE) should send a thank you note to North Korea dictator Kim Jong-un for fueling WOM and buzz for its newly released movie “The interview,” which was sold out in independent theaters this Chri...

For all its popularity, the handshake is not well understood.  According to one poll, some 70% of people don't feel confident about their ability to give a proper handshake.  The mass ignorance is startling, given that...

A plunge in oil prices has sent tremors through the global political and economic order, helping the United States but pushing several big oil-exporting nations to the brink of financial crisis.

Investments by domestic institutional investors into Indian equity markets have been the highest in last 16 months in Dec, while FIIs have been net sellers

Citigroup will sell its retail-banking unit in Japan to Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), a Japanese multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, the companies announced Thurs...

Over several quarters, the company had steadily lost ground with investors as its market share slipped and profitability ebbed, too

Jeremy Grantham is not a believer in the shale fracking boom. Back in November, we highlighted Grantham's full quarterly letter to GMO clients, in which he said, among other things, that the US shale boom had been "a ver...

Historically, the periods during and immediately after economic downturns have been harder on blacks. But the trend this time has been more extreme.

Marc Benioff, the co-founder CEO of Salesforce, is one of the highest paid people in tech. But in his hometown of San Francisco, where a tear-down home can cost $1 million, he's not the symbol of gentrification. He's mor...

I wanted to put the iPhone 6 time-lapse video to the test. I also really wanted to know why my baby is in a different position every time I check on her in her crib. I recorded the infrared night-vision output from the b...

If the problems at Chandrapur plant are not resolved by next fiscal, it can force analysts to revisit their earnings estimates

And how to manage it.

Nothing like a heart warming Tax Court decision for Christmas.  Judge Kathleen Kerrigan was a toddler, when United States Marine Bill Lewis went off to Vietnam.  Apparently her probably dim memories of that long ago t...

This holiday season was predicted to be the highest grossing season for the US in many years. The National Retail Federation (NRF) predicted (through its surveys) that the majority of the consumers would spend more money...

It was a day to remember for followers of the Dow Jones Industrial Average 2 Minute (INDEXDJX:.DJI) Index as it crossed 18,000 points for the first time in history. It took the index 120 trading days to add 1,000 points ...

Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) has issued a list of stocks that are likely to be affected the most by the massive decline in crude oil prices. The most prominent stocks in the list include American Airlines Group Inc. (NASDAQ:...

Guest:Take time to strategize the best location for your startup. Your impulsive first choice might not be the best place for you.

Asian stock markets are mixed amid thin trading Thursday, following a sharp run-up in recent days as strong U.S. data propelled Wall Street stocks to record highs.

Guest:It's that time of the year again. In the next weeks, everyone and their brother is going to come up with their predictions for 2015. As far as the datacenter is concerned, this is a foolish exercise. Datacenter tra...

The firm said Citibank Japan's entire retail banking operations will be transferred.          

Concerns over post subsidy realizations have weighed on sentiment for the stock

Salary earned from services outside India will be considered as accruing/arising outside India