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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Officials say that an American soldier has been killed and several others have been wounded in a series of attacks Friday in Afghanistan's capital. A wave of attacks rocked Kabul, leaving more than 40 ...

With Millennials becoming a larger part of the workforce, we Baby Boomers are quick to point out the apparent differences in our work habits. Surprising to some, we are not too different. So, how can we both work togethe...

The irony is Amazon is innovating -- just not, noticeably at least, in online retail, the area where it got its start.

China’s exports plunged 8.3% in July, far worse than expected, as China gets a taste of the other side of globalization -- whereby a slow down in one area of the world spreads to another, in a vicious cycle of decline....

TechCrunch reports that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) released some numbers related to the sales the company had made through its App Store. The company made these announcements pertaining to how App Store sales from China he...

Verizon, the nation's largest wireless provider, will stop offering phones at discounted prices when customers sign two-year service contracts.

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Which of these things are related? 1) Taylor Swift, who yanked her catalog off Spotify because she doesn't like its business model, stirs up more bad blood in a Vanity...

Banks in southern Europe commonly sell their own stocks and bonds to people who have deposits and loans with them. But the practice cost customers dearly during the financial crisis.

The Securities and Exchange Commission this week adopted a new rule requiring public companies to disclose how much money CEOs earn in comparison to typical employees. Part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform act, the ru...

After falling in the 1990s, the number of poor people living in high-poverty areas has been growing fast.

Is Tesla fashionable? Hello. Is it copying Apple? Please. That's the testy message Tesla CEO Elon Musk had for anybody with questions about his recent hire of ex-Burberry exec Ganesh...

A YouTube comedy trio's most popular video has been viewed hundreds of millions of time online, but the group is only earning a profit for fraction of those views due to Facebook's lax rules regarding intellectual prope...

Bob Geis and his colleagues have created a success where others failed, and they have done so by using only a few principles -principles that overcome barriers, change entrenched thinking, and fix dysfunctional organizat...

A targeted approach and a killer follow up could net you a new deal

The consumer and retail industry is undergoing a rapid transformation. Innovation, and the young, emerging brands driving it, are rarely celebrated, even when they perform exceptionally well and help to change lives.

Taylor Swift's US clothing line carries the slogan "T.S. 89," which are her initials and birth year. A source told Reuters that the logo may have to be removed in China, where T.S. 1989 could be interpreted as a referenc...

Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc (NYSE:CCE) stock has received an upward revision on the price objective advised by UBS. An analyst\'s note issued yesterday, informs a revised target price of $56 on Coca-Cola Enterprises, which...

Shares in Zall Development, a China real estate developer controlled by billionaire Yan Zhi, soared by 13% at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Friday after the company said one of the country’s most successful e-commerc...

NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) -- The city of Nagasaki marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing Sunday with calls to abolish nuclear weapons and halt the Japanese government's push to loosen restrictions on what its milit...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs are practically a given at most companies these days, but that doesn’t necessarily mean all companies have truly accepted the calling to be good corporate citizens. Some C...

NEW YORK (AP) -- A teenage fan at Yankee Stadium showed off quite an arm Sunday -- at the expense of All-Star outfielder Brett Gardner. The New York left fielder was hit in the back of the head but not hurt when a fan th...