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WASHINGTON -- Weighing in on the growing debate over amateurism in college sports, President Barack Obama said on Friday that universities bear "more responsibilities than right now they're showing" toward their athletes...

While in federal prison in 2006, Peter Bistrian, a former stock broker from Long Island in his 40s, claims he got involved with one of the most violent drug lords Philadelphia has ever known, Kaboni Savage. Soon afterwar...

Alicia Navarro is CEO and Co-founder of Skimlinks. She has always loved technology. She has a computing science degree (for which she won the University Medal), and has been a passionate product manager most of her caree...

Levi's has announced it's saved 1 billion liters of water in its manufacturing process. That's enough to fill 400 Olympic-size pools. That's enough to make a huge water-footprint dent. That's enough to provide H20 for da...

The first German bank has died from Austrian contagion.  Duesseldorfer Hypothekenbank AG (“Duesselhyp”), a tiny mortgage lender, has been seized by the Bundesverband Deutsche Banken (BDB), Germany's association of p...

When Amazon launched way back in 1995, the company's whole purpose was selling books. Today, it's a mega-company that sells hundreds of millions of products, makes its own tablets and phones, and plans to deliver packag...

Twitter just turned nine years old. On Friday, the company's CCO Gabriel Stricker posted a look back at some famous first tweets, including the first-ever tweet from CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey, back when Twitter was ...

One of history's most brutal tyrants was a diagnosed schizophrenic on a mission to avenge his childhood years of repressed rage, according to American psychologist and Harvard professor Henry Murray. In 1943, Murray was ...

Guest:Here's how to convince your boss about deep-linking and how to get the right details from developers.

Since launching my small business I have been constantly looking for different types of business insurance. There are so many options out there so I decided to write an article to help everyone out.

General Motors Co.'s near-total pullout of the Russian car market stunned auto experts, who wonder whether the problem was Russia's or GM's. "It is an almost unprecedented decision for a major global automaker to abandon...

A federal appeals court will reverse the decision in the O'Bannon likeness case, in the view of a D.C. lawyer familiar with antitrust rulings. The announcement may not come until the summer.

(Reuters) - Investors enjoying near-record levels for major stock indexes will scrutinize housing data and other economic indicators in the coming week for hints about the timing of U.S. interest rate hikes to see if the...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Potatoes that won't bruise and apples that won't brown are a step closer to grocery store aisles, but some food suppliers say they don't want any part of it and others are staying silent. The Food an...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (TheStreet) -- China plans to increase enforcement of pollution laws after earlier efforts failed -- likely putting pressure on the country's heavy industry, including U.S.-traded companies. Petrochemical...

(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc failed to block a vote on a shareholder resolution calling for an independent board chairman, allowing it to return to the ballot for the third straight year at its annual shareholder meet...

The head of one of the world's most innovative fish farms sports a scruffy beard and talks about saving the planet by moving "toward a culture of nurture." His office is a trailer near the beach, where the views are of d...

Tech moguls looking to buy a trophy home have long turned to Southern California.

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This is the time of year when we are reminded of the incredible riches to be earned from big-time college sports. Among the top seeds in the March Madness NCAA men's basketball tournament is the University of Louisville....

Nonprofit insurer Blue Shield of California, already under scrutiny for its huge cash reserves and lack of disclosure, is refusing to say how much it's spending to acquire a Monterey Park insurance company and is seeking...

The beginning and the end of a customer's experience with your business are programmed in a customer's mind to be the two most memorable parts of the customer experience. Because of the way a customer's memory works, th...