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Dove's latest effort in its long-running "Campaign for Real Beauty" is out. In this short documentary video from ad agency Ogilvy & Mather Chicago, the brand visited Delhi, Sao Paulo, London, San Francisco, and London, a...

Yahoo is planning a big reorganization that will bring Tumblr more closely into the company, instead of allowing it to be run as a largely independent business unit. The Information reports that CEO Marissa Mayer discuss...

Royal Dutch Shell is buying the UK's third biggest energy company, British BG Group, for almost £50 bn.

While Rajan famously warned of the 2008 financial crisis to an audience that included US Fed, as RBI governor he's now at a big disadvantage

Below is the April 7th Thoughts from the Frontline, republished in full.

Today's London morning began with news that Royal Dutch Shell had agreed to buy BG Group, the oil and gas exploration business that is the UK's third largest energy company, for £47bn ($70bn).

By: Lee Breslouer Whoever said "there's no such thing as a free lunch" is an idiot. It should be, "there's no such thing as a free lunch, because it costs 49 cents." I learned that after I mailed a ton of companies physi...

Young women are still waiting for equal pay.

California utility regulators are poised to hit Pacific Gas & Electric Co. with a record-high, $1.6-billion penalty for negligence leading to the deadly natural gas explosion in San Bruno.

Taiwan has filed a letter of intent to join an Asian infrastructure development bank led by China, a risky venture as Beijing claims sovereignty over the proudly self-ruled applicant and the two once bitter rivals hav...

The company hopes you'll cough up $4.99 the "Sirloin Third Pound" burgers

A thin client Android ATM will have lower TCO, higher security and be easier to administer.

French air traffic controllers walked off the job Wednesday, launching a two-day strike that has grounded nearly half of all flights across the country. About 40 percent of flights were canceled Wednesday, and national a...

Most people have their mind made up about everything -- politics, social issues, business decisions. Just ask them. Very few people will invite you to persuade them to do anything. So if you're going to get someone to ch...

California officials are getting help from Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. to hold back a flood of Internet ads by unlicensed payday lenders -- companies that often charge excessive fees to borrowers with no other source...

Output reaches 10.3m barrels a day in March as kingdom responds to unexpectedly strong global demand Saudi Arabia has revved up crude production to its highest rate on record, feeding unexpectedly strong demand from fore...

The Andreessen Horowitz-backed company is testing a tool that will let you annotate any page on the web. When Marc Andreessen launched the Netscape web browser back in 1994, he inadvertently laid the foundation for what ...

Every few months, a rumor crops up that Google is interested in buying Twitter. It cropped up again this morning, and may have contributed to a 4% rise in Twitter's stock price. One outlet reported rumors that Twitter ha...

Mr. Grassley, the Iowa Republican who is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent letters to the Justice Department and the Treasury asking for details about the decision.

An ongoing glut of crude oil will give U.S. drivers this summer the lowest seasonal gasoline prices in six years, the government predicts.

JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon just published his annual letter to shareholders. He offers a lot of perspective on the state JP Morgan, its past, and its future. Regarding its future he offered some global context based on 10...

There's a surprisingly large number of celestial bodies in our solar system with liquid water. Still, they're very different from Earth -- both in their size and their distance from the sun. Regardless, where there's li...