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Amid ongoing crisis, the embattled community site is reshuffling its executives

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) agree on one thing: The government should do what it can to help part-time workers find full time jobs. And Bush is finding a number of seemingly unlik...

Kent Hovind returned to Pensacola this week.  He will be serving the last month of the sentence from his 2006 conviction in home confinement before beginning a three-year period of supervised release.  There will be a ...

By Elyssa Kirkham, Editor Amazon is turning 20 next week, and to celebrate this landmark event the online retailer is offering a huge sale under the name of Prime Day. The July 15 sales event will feature giveaways and d...

Key to Adidas's new strategic plan is turning around its fortunes in the U.S. That could prove challenging.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of Anheuser Busch InBev were getting a pop, up 4.83% to $126.21 in midday trading Friday, after Moody's Investors Service assigned an A2 rating to the beer brewer's bonds. Moody's also is...

One of the enduring mysteries about Google is exactly how it makes its money. The company books $17.2 billion a quarter in sales, but Google only discloses six facts about where those sales come from: Ad revenues from...

Welcome to Main Street Morning, The Washington Post's daily collection of news affecting entrepreneurs, start-ups and small businesses with a special focus on policy and government.Here's what's affecting my small busine...

Coffee Meets Bagel, a dating app described as the "anti-Tinder" and led by three sisters who turned down a $30 million buyout from Mark Cuban, launched in London on Wednesday. The latest entrant to an increasingly crowde...

Prompted by the legendary businessman Andrew Carnegie, who turned a few nickels and dimes into a fortune, journalist Napoleon Hill researched more than 500 self-made millionaires over 20 years before releasing his 1937 b...

One former and two current Hertz Corp. employees in the Los Angeles area filed a class-action lawsuit Thursday against the rental car company, alleging staff were forced to work off-the-clock.

We're starting to hear talk around Wall Street -- people are saying the worst is over in Macau. "With the central and Macau governments essentially putting a 'policy floor' on the industry revenue, we believe that the w...

ATHENS -- Hopes of a bailout deal between debt-ravaged Greece and its European creditors pushed stock markets higher Friday before crunch-time meetings that will decide whether Athens has offered enough cuts to restart r...

'Closet tracking' has been labelled one of the most scandalous cons in the funds industry. But cracking down on it is proving difficult, says Rebecca Byrne. The post Outing the index-hugger funds was first published on M...

In the past 18 months cable entrepreneur Patrick Drahi has stitched together $40 billion in deals, including a $23 billion takeover of SFR, France's second-largest mobile company. Now he's targeting the U.S. market.

Tremendous credit to Pixar, Facebook - and large companies like them - that cherish the creative impulse, and maintain cultures that welcome change, thrive on exploration, and encourage individual initiative. Collectivel...

The spillover of China's market selloff to Hong Kong opens opportunities for lesser-known but solid businesses such as Fuyao Glass and China Medical System.

Most every company in business says it "strives to provide superior customer service," or other words to that effect. (The exceptions are incredibly rare: a few delis that are legendary for their brusqueness, a few other...

Anne Richards, Global Chief Investment Officer of Aberdeen Asset Management, started her career as a scientist. She tells Fortune's Nina Easton how she uses her scientific knowledge in the field of finance.        ...

Cindy Gallop, founder and CEO of MakeLoveNotPorn, explains how she beat porn sites bad rep.          

Back to school shopping is officially underway, and some key findings from a recent Consumer Pulse survey from Rubicon Project (NYSE: RUBI) offers insight on how much parents are spending, when they’re shopping, what ...

I have been reflecting on why Burt Shavitz, the face behind Burt's Bees, impacted our world. Burt was an icon for natural, niche products whose core values remained consistent even after he became a millionaire. With Bur...