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The words "future of work" and "hierarchy" don't exactly go together. I have never come across an executive who said they wanted to add more layers to their organizations or create MORE hierarchy. In fact in today's rapi...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The stock indexes closed down for the fifth day in a row on Thursday. The DJIA lost another 106.38 points to close at 17,320.71 while the S&P 500 was lower by 18.60 to close at 1,992.67. The Nasd...

Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe have agreed to pay $415 million to resolve a class action antitrust lawsuit filed by tech workers who said the companies made an agreement to not hire each other’s employees. The suit, f...

Last night I attended a meeting of the Luxury Marketing Council, hosted at the Strand Hotel here in New York. Our firm has represented major players in the luxury goods segment for over two decades, so the Council is a g...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of the National Bank of Greece are down by 4.09% to $1.64 in mid-morning trading on Friday, as two of the country's banks, Eurobank Ergasias and Alpha Bank, request emergency liquidity ass...

A new report on which income brackets pay the most taxes is getting a lot of attention. But its findings of an "unfair" system bear scrutiny.

SAN FRANCISCO (TheStreet) -- BlackBerry tanked Thursday after Samsung denied it was in buyout talks with the Canadian smartphone maker, jerking the stock from its rocket-ride performance the previous day, when reports su...

The oil company faces a maximum penalty of $13.7 billion at a trial this month after a federal judge found the spill was smaller than estimated.

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RBS has conceded it may have mis-sold a Government scheme designed to help small businesses obtain credit

What do department stores and restaurants have in common with search engines and social networks? For many, it's that they're all getting sued by patent trolls, companies that accuse other businesses of patent infringeme...

It isn't getting any easier on Wall Street. Bank of America and Citigroup on Thursday reported sharply lower fourth-quarter earnings that disappointed investors. Their results came a day after JPMorgan...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A federal judge has determined that 3.19 million barrels of oil was discharged into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 as a result of a rig explosion at BP's Macondo well. This is less than government estimat...

A business professor from Arizona State University is roadtripping from Alaska to Patagonia via Google Earth, and uploading his Streetview pictures as he goes along. Kevin Dooley, who teaches Supply Chain Management at A...

A bestselling Christian book that claims to detail a boy's trip to heaven and his return to Earth is being pulled from stores after one of its co-authors admitted he made the whole thing up. The 2010 memoir, "The Boy Who...

Dallas Cowboys owner and GM Jerry Jones did not give the most ringing endorsement for re-signing both Dez Bryant and DeMarco Murray this offseason. While both are free agents, re-signing Bryant is the Cowboys' biggest pr...

Residents of Prince William County and surrounding areas filled the auditorium at Battlefield High School this week to protest the possible construction of high-voltage power lines that would support a proposed Haymarket...

You now have the power to break down language barriers thanks to the incredible update Google just made to its Translate app.

This week, Tiffany & Co. published its first ad featuring a same-sex couple. The famed luxury jeweler, known for its iconic Robin's Egg blue boxes, has joined a host of other American companies in not just embracing same...

I moved from being a partner at Battery Ventures and J.P. Morgan Capital to CEO of a startup. Here's what my past life as a VC has taught me about leading a company

U.S. stocks dropped Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling more than 100 points after oil prices reversed and continued to slide. That occurred after weaker than expected U.S. data spurred growth economi...

Switzerland’s central bank surprised the world this morning by removing its self-imposed cap of 1.20 Swiss francs per euro and letting the franc float higher. It also lowered its deposit rate for banks to -0.75 percent...