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Ascena Retail Group Inc., owner of clothing stores Dress Barn and Lane Bryant, said Monday it would buy fellow women's retailer Ann Inc. for $2.15 billion.

A 17-year-old girl was forced to marry an already married man at least 30 years older than her in "the wedding of the millennium." The incident has raised legal and ethical issues in Russia and its republic Chechnya. Lui...

NEW YORK (The Deal) -- Despite reducing what it owes Capital One Bank NA by $15 million since January, oilfield services provider Frac Specialists LLC has filed for bankruptcy with plans to restructure its prepetition de...

To have a successful digital marketing strategy, you need to reach customers where they are -- and these days, that's on mobile. But many marketers don't grasp the true importance of mobile marketing, since they aren't a...

Alibaba Group, China’s largest e-commerce business, has criticized a reported lawsuit filed Friday in New York by Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and other brands owned by Kering SA that alleges it knowingly allows the sale ...

NetApp's hardware maintenance revenues have witnessed double digit annual growth in nine consecutive quarters. In the most recent quarter, the company witnessed a 10% y-o-y rise in hardware maintenance support contracts ...

We've got a big retail merger to start the week.  Ascena announced Monday it is acquiring Ann Taylor for $47 per share in cash and stock. In a release on Monday morning, the retail companies said Ann Taylor stock holder...

Good morning! Here's everything you need to know in the world of advertising today. 1. We stumbled across what might be the most bizarre ad of the year. It's for Thunderhead, a company that make customer service software...

Videographer and photographer Leonardo Dalessandri spent 20 days traveling throughout Turkey. He covered over 3,500 km and captured footage from 9 cities: Cappadocia, Ephesus, Istanbul, Goreme, Havanos, Selcuk, Konya, Si...

Lahore (Pakistan)

The bluesman's business manager and his children continue their vicious battle.

Many believe that the ending of "Mad Men" symbolized hope and serenity. But did it really?

We can’t always articulate what we want.

Investment firm Barclays today reiterated its Neutral rating and the $190 price target for Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) as it expressed concerns over Tesla's Gigafactory.

Business schools and their applicants are fiercely competitive -- but which ones deserve the prestige of being known as Europe's best? QS has released their rankings of the best universities in the world by subject and r...

This week, the Justice Department is expected to make a historic announcement: Major American banks are pleading guilty to criminal charges. After years of complaints over what watchdogs see as tepid bank punishments, fe...

Troy Conrad Therrien, curator of architecture and digital initiatives at the Guggenheim, explains how technology is driving innovation behind everything from art to philosophy--and especially design.

Have you ever wondered how your work environment impacts your well being and prosperity? Is your office environment meeting your core human needs? How do the mysteries of work and life connect to how and where we work?

U-2's Bono is snapping back about the banks famous offshore tax moves. Taxes are just about business, after all, and everybody does it.

Much ado has been made of late about the advantages and, increasingly, the potential disadvantages of using wood to create energy. Figuring out what's what on that front has taken on new urgency, with renewable energy po...

Rupert Murdoch's son and News Corporation's charitable foundation donated money to the Clinton Foundation, recently the subject of conservative attacks after Hillary Clinton declared her run for President.

The IRS normally must audit within three years of your return filing, but allegations of fraud can give the IRS unlimited time.