Business News

A full-time female employee earned 82.5% of what a man earned in 2014, up considerably from 1979, when women made an estimated 62% of what men did. While this is certainly an improvement, progress has slowed between 2000...

Part IV in a series on technological evolution. Part I was "If a Time Traveller Saw a Smartphone." Part II was "As Technology Gets Better, Will Society Get Worse?" Part III was "The Problem With Easy Technology." Could t...

Great employers know they need to pay competitive wages to attract the best employees. A cool culture isn’t a currency that pays the landlord or the grocery store. But if you’re making the transition from being a one...

AppDynamics, which became a startup worth $1 billion in July, finished the year with $150 million in bookings (revenue under contract), CEO and founder, Jyoti Bansal tells Business Insider. Join the conversation about t...

Happy Oscar Sunday! Neil Patrick Harris will host the 87th annual Academy Awards tonight at 8 p.m. on ABC. "Birdman" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel' both lead the Oscar race as top nominees for the evening with nine nomin...

Unions have threatened four-day strike from 25 February to press wage-hike demand

West Coast ports are emerging from the most contentious labor dispute in more than a decade, but lingering resentment and structural problems may complicate a return to normality.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece will submit a list of reforms to be agreed with its creditors Sunday, the country's finance minister said Saturday. "We are in the process of compiling the list of reforms for the institutio...

Most Americans support President Obama's proposal to raise investment taxes on wealthy Americans and lower taxes on the middle class, an approach he calls "middle-class economics," an Associated Press-GfK poll indicates....

Jeffrey Schox is a patent attorney to Silicon Valley's startup stars — and sometimes, he's their investor too. Schox, an attorney and the owner of Schox PLC, a boutique patent law firm nested in San Francisco's startup...

Ana Redmond launched into a technology career for an exciting challenge and a chance to change the world. She was well-equipped to succeed too: An ambitious math and science wiz, she could code faster, with fewer errors,...

A few months ago, the Huffington Post reported on a surprising piece of the standard employment contract at Jimmy John's: A "non-competition" clause, preventing employees from working at any other shop within three miles...

Muddy Waters Research founder Carson Block, one of the world's most infamous short-sellers, revealed his first long stock position on Bloomberg TV's "Market Makers"with Stephanie Ruhle and Eric Schatzker.  Block - who i...

When the clock struck 12:01 am on Saturday, workers at the Motiva Refinery in Port Arthur, Texas walked off the job -- joining a U.S. refinery strike that's suddenly that much bigger. At issue -- national agreement on sa...

For anyone betting on the Northeast's casino bonanza, odds are long on hitting expectations          

Meryl Streep received her 19th Oscar nod when the 87th Academy Awards nominations were announced in January. Streep, who was nominated for best supporting actress in Disney's "Into the Woods," is, by far, the most-nomina...

Fox News commentator stands by his combat duty statements.          

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. said Sunday it would buy Salix Pharmaceuticals Ltd. for about $10 billion, a return to its big deal-making ways after a failed bid for Botox maker Allergan Inc. last year.

. Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: 14 things you didn't know your iPhone headphones could do

"The US 10-year Treasury yield fell to a 220-year low of 1.45% in July 2012," Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Michael Hartnett noted. "The bond has since flirted with that low but has yet to breach it." At 2.11% today, t...

Just weeks ago, the Washington Post described Scott Walker as the first "It" candidate of the 2016 presidential races, but after stumbling over "truth," evolution, and whether or not the President is a Christian or loves...

  Fast Company's 2015 list of World's 50 Innovative companies had a few surprises for global market observers. The first surprise is that Warby Parker topped the list, beating Apple--Apple has been on and off the top o...