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Amassing millions of fans on YouTube really does pay off.  24-year-old Zoe Sugg -- or "Zoella," as she's known on YouTube -- has paid more than $1.4 million for a five-bedroom home in Hove, East Sussex, according to the...

The February cover story of Harvard Business Review, "The Authenticity Paradox," by Professor Herminia Ibarra, eloquently described how authenticity can actually inhibit our ability to evolve, to expand beyond our comfor...

The hardest problem is connecting data to meaningful insights and allowing businesses to gain valuable insights.

Research shows that conventional coaching doesn't work to change employee behavior. Find out what you're doing wrong.

Here's how to follow in the footsteps of GT Kombucha--and companies like Starbucks--in creating a brand new market.

Samsung will buy LoopPay, a mobile payments company. LoopPay's technology allows mobile payments through traditional magnetic credit card readers. That means it can theoretically work in a lot more places than Apple Pay,...

Chocolate lovers in the U.S. can kiss artificial flavors and colors in Butterfingers, Crunch and Baby Ruth bars goodbye, as Nestle aims to become the first U.S. candymaker to remove such ingredients from its chocolate pr...

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It might be no coincidence that we are soon approaching the 50th anniversary of the release of the Mercedes S600, given that the Pullman is back for sure. The iconic "Dictator Ship" is all set to debut at the Geneva Moto...

Two powerful healthcare unions are slugging it out over the future of a chain of six struggling Catholic hospitals in California, including two in Los Angeles County.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) seems to be gearing up to make the Apple Car a reality. According to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster the US car market averages around $500 billion in sales every year. This assertion was give...

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em--and then beat 'em. Microsoft announced today that it's opening its Office apps to integrate with a slew of other existing cloud services, according to The Verge, further affirming its com...

A low-level Republican official in Michigan was adjusting a gun in her bra holster last month when she accidentally shot herself to death, local newspapers reported.

Science and entrepreneurship combine to protect against extreme weather.

Venezuela’s economy is slowly collapsing, crushed by the pressure of a falling oil prices and the accumulated weight of decades of mismanagement. Venezuela’s currency, the bolivar, is overvalued and artificially prop...

Leadership doesn’t mean having all the answers.

As "Parks and Recreation" fans mourn the end of an era, it seems the cast may be struggling most of all in coming to terms with the final episodes. The show's Amy Poehler, Nick Offerman, Adam Scott, Chris Pratt, Aziz Ans...

There's a lot going on in Greece.  But amid the will-they won't-they negotiations between Greece and its Eurogroup creditors, the bigger question is whether Greece will remain in the eurozone or not.  In a post on Tues...

SEC filing shows Buffett sold 41 million shares of Exxon in the fourth quarter as the oil industry took its lumps.

As you can see I've been writing quite a bit of late about the intertwined matters of the Israeli election, the Netanyahu-Boehner speech to Congress and related matters. After some early signs that Prime Minister Netanya...

Millennials accustomed to ordering food for delivery on smartphones have come of legal drinking age, and niche start-ups are poised to take advantage.

A recent study finds that offering employees financial rewards for submitting their ideas increases the quality you'll receive while lowering the volume you need to sift through.