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It has been reported that International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) will be laying off 26% of its global workforce next week. According to Robert X. Cringely, a contributor at Forbes, IBM is set to launch a transf...

The immigration debate may seem more like a low skilled labor, border control issue. But in the real halls of power, the immigration issue is about supplying high tech skilled labor to companies like Google and outsourci...

Sports psychologist Dr. Jonathan Fader helps professional athletes overcome adversity using techniques that rely on various types of imagery. One method incorporates elements of the approach used by the ancient samurai w...

Apple reports its earnings next Tuesday, Jan. 27. According to Ming Chi Kuo, analyst at KGI Securities, the company will report mind-melting iPhone sales. In a new report picked up at Apple Insider, Kuo forecasts Apple s...

Greeks head to the polling booths for the third time in less than three years to elect a new government, a vote that could determine the country's future in the eurozone and reverberate across Europe.

The family and I went to the X Games here in Aspen this afternoon, which is all the reminder one needs that recreational marijuana is legal in Colorado. We made it through about an hour of the men's slopestyle final ...

Belgium's finance minister sees some room to discuss the "modalities" of the Greek debt program with the other eurozone nations after Sunday's election victory of the left-wing Syriza party that…

The market for storing wind and solar-generated electricity could become a multibillion-dollar industry in the next decade, analysts say.

Two males were shot inside the Home Depot on West 23rd Street in Manhattan, a public information officer with the New York City Police Department confirmed to Business Insider.  Another police source reportedly told th...

It's after five but before seven on a recent Friday evening, and across Clarendon, despite the odds, office workers have found themselves sitting in front of discounted drinks. Happy hour in Virginia is a somewhat secret...

Imagination Technologies says it can deliver super-fast processing without setting you on fire.

NEW YORK (Real Money) -- In addition to founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus, P.T. Barnum is also famous for vocalizing some harsh truths: "A sucker is born every minute" and "Give the people what they want and they will ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- From her hometown in India in 2010, Bhanu Challa said she had no reason to doubt that Tri-Valley University was a legitimate American school where she could pursue a master's degree. Its website fea...

The skyline of downtown San Francisco is about to be transformed by a pair of towering buildings totalling two million square feet (186,000 square metres) and the force behind this megadeal is a little-known developer fr...

For the first time in 35 years, American business deaths now outnumber business births. --Jim Clifton, CEO, Gallup Polls I've been self-employed since 1998, and let me tell you, the life of a business owner isn't easy. I...

Shortly after Marissa Mayer became CEO of Yahoo in 2012, she instituted a new smartphone policy for employees. In his book on Yahoo and Mayer's tenure as CEO there, Nicholas Carlson writes that Yahoo employees were still...

Ryan Brinkman, automobile equity research analyst at JP Morgan, cut the price target on Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) stock from $190 to $180, while reiterating a Neutral recommendation. He cited lower fuel prices as th...

The rate of U.S. union membership fell slightly in 2014, continuing a trend that suggests the labor movement will have to step up efforts if it's to rebound from a decades-long slide.

Nope. There is some method to this madness.

African Americans for decades flocked to Prince George's County to be part of a phenomenon that has been rare in American history: a community that grew more upscale as it became more black. The county became a national ...

Obama's India trip more about big business than foreign policy.

Greek voters have handed the anti-austerity radical left-wing Syriza party an unprecedented landslide victory. It is not a drama and it will not cause a Grexit and start a process in which the Eurozone will fall apart. B...