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Religious zeal and petty jealousies bring even more tragedy to History's 'Vikings.'

Scantily-clad saleswomen promoting products at tech conferences are commonly referred to as 'Booth Babes.' The RSA information security conference is banning the practice this year with a strict dress code for exhibitors...

Sue Decker, a former Yahoo exec and Wall Street analyst, says she's been "obsessed" with the Ellen Pao trial. Decker's storied career, which included being CFO during Yahoo's heyday, has turned her into a Valley powerhou...

Wrestling fans often wonder exactly how much their favorite performers make. It's an interesting question, but one that's nearly impossible to answer given the complexity of WWE's booking contracts. We do our best to she...

North Wilkesboro Speedway, which served as a stop in NASCAR's Winston Cup Series from 1949 until September 1996, has sat abandoned for 20 years. Aside from a brief year of activity in 2011, the speedway has been left to ...

For the first time since his ouster, former American Apparel CEO Dov Charney is talking publicly about being at war with the company he built.

Sex discrimination suit trained the spotlight on the gender imbalance in the tech industry.          

Scott McDaniel's StrongSuit Inc. specializes in tactical gloves for law enforcement.          

Jury finds VC firm Kleiner Perkins did not discriminate on the basis of gender          

Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen said Friday that any increase in rock-bottom interest rates to "more normal" levels would be gradual and that rates would remain low "for some time" while the economy continues to recov...

In the end, culture is about how your company is different from other companies, not how it is the same.

On March 25, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission finally announced rules for several aspects of the 2012 America JOBS Act, which legalized “crowd funding” as we know it.  The announcement by the SEC has the ...

The landmark ruling sets the precedent that allows UK citizens to file charges against Google in their own land, where Google is under fire for alleged antitrust and anti-privacy practices.

The generics industry has proposed that the federal agency take full responsibility for altering labels whenever health risks are discovered rather than expecting companies to take the initiative.

While the verdict on Friday was a defeat for Ms. Pao, the trial has blown open a conversation about the status of women in an industry that has always been buttoned up about its shortcomings.

With billions of dollars in reserve, nonprofit insurer Blue Shield of California is facing new pressure to offer better prices for its policies.

Guest:A call from another company's CorpDev team can signal they're interested in acquiring you. But it could also lead to costly dead-ends. If you do decide to take the call, here are seven steps I recommend for convert...

Mint founder Aaron Patzer discusses his decision to intentionally place limits on his own power.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- The number of foreign fishermen stranded on several remote eastern Indonesian islands has spiraled to 4,000, including some revealed in an Associated Press investigation to have been enslaved. ...

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Our analysis of financial history is that when there is such a commodity bust, it usually lasts for a long, long time, sometimes 20 years. And money managers, who for years and decades have used oil as the permanent inve...

Last week, I traveled to a remote village called Bakhrejagat in Nepal with CHOICE Humanitarian on a volunteer expedition; it was like stepping back in time to the 19th century. To quickly put the trip in context, we slep...