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Microbes make our lives better in countless ways. They are the reason yogurt and cheese taste delicious. These tiny beings also fight deadly diseases -- in fact, they made penicillin, the "wonder drug" that has saved mil...

It's been four months since Dan Price, the CEO of Gravity Payments, unveiled a plan to provide even his most junior employees with a salary of $70,000.

Google just announced a major overhaul of its corporate structure.  As part of the change, the company that used to be called Google going to become a new holding company called Alphabet. Shareholders will get one Alpha...

Frank Gifford was one of pro football's first celebrities--and by all counts he never acted like it.

Adani Power booked a consolidated net loss of Rs417.6 crore in the June quarter

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Amazon's first warehouse in Illinois will be built in Joliet and will create 1,000 full-time jobs, the online retail giant announced Monday.

With philanthropist and homeless advocate Pope Francis in charge, things are really changing inside the walls of the venerable institution, and the Vatican will never be the same again.

An aggressive response to what many Americans see as a crisis forcing young adults to move back home with their parents and struggle to get out from under repayment bills.

The announcement by China e-commerce giant JD.com on Friday that it purchased a 10% stake in a traditional retailer based in Fujian Province for $700 million is part growing wave of combinations among online and offline ...

An announcement from Google not only radically changed the organization of the Internet giant, but installed a new CEO: Sundar Pichai. Who is he?

The acquisition of Astoria Financial alone could provide New York Community with accretion of 14% in earnings per share.

For the second-straight week fuel usage played a major role in the outcome of a NASCAR race as Joey Logano came from behind in the final lap at Watkins Glen to overcome a gas-starved Kevin Harvick for the win. The recent...

Whether it is fuel savings, safer commutes or freed-up time behind the wheel, motorists have many reasons to embrace self-driving cars. But another group is just as eager to see these vehicles on the road: politicians. L...

U.S. stocks opened higher Monday as investors assessed the latest corporate deal news. Precision Castparts led industrial stocks higher after Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway agreed to buy the maker of aircraft compon...

Author Pratham Mittal is the co-founder of VenturePact, a marketplace that helps companies find and engage with prescreened software development firms; he previously founded Newsance, and worked in Product at Host Commit...

Arkansas sees biggest drop in uninsured rate

Precision Castparts soared 19 percent after Warren E. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway said it would buy the company for $32 billion.

Here is a rule for business presentations to help you stay within a set timeframe, practice your talk, and make sure people understand your idea.

I did a 20-minute talk at Google's massive New York City headquarters last week for a bunch of UX aficionados. They're the gnomes who fixate on user experience, or what goes where on a Web page, especially those boxy dis...

GlaxoSmithKline plc. (ADR) (NYSE:GSK) stock has gone up 7.48% since the release of its higher-than-expected second quarter fiscal '15 (2QFY15) earnings on July 29. The stock rallied, despite an over 1% decline on the NYS...

Study: Smaller cities emerge among top picks for biz meetings, bookings show.