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Though tattooing has been in practice for thousands of years, only in the last century have new and exciting styles been swept into the spotlight. From abstract to geometric, watercolor to surreal, Instagram is the perfe...

A one-time small community bank president who became the first person convicted of trying to rip off the federal bailout program has been sentenced in New York to 2 1/2...

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday declared his frontline troops in a "quasi-state of war" and ordered them to prepare for battle a day after South Korea fired dozens of artillery ro...

The Coca-Cola Company is looking to restructure, consolidate some of its operations, and spin-off some others ? all in a bid to drive operational efficiencies, reduce supply-chain costs, and improve profitability. These ...

Despite the record number of billion-dollar startups, investor Bill Gurley believes that Silicon Valley's golden age could soon be coming to an end. Here's why.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- If you're worried about a market correction, it's already too late. While the S&P 500 is only down 5.7% from its most recent high, over half the stocks in the broad market index have fallen more t...

Stocks tumbled worldwide Thursday and major U.S. indexes suffered their worst day in 18 months as investors fretted about China's slowing growth and the muddled outlook for U.S. interest rates.

Google X is spinning out its life sciences group and making it a standalone company within new Google’s new parent company, Alphabet, Google cofounder Sergey Brin wrote in a Google+ post today. Andy Conrad, who has bee...

A new Lloyd's of London report spotlights five issues that could stall the drone boom.          

The mysterious Banksy has struck again with the artist's most ambitious project to date: a theme park. Take a peek inside the demented "Dismaland," which features art from the activist and a twisted castle. Produced by ...

Impact Team, the now-infamous group of anonymous hackers behind the alleged theft of data from infidelity dating site Ashley Madison, explained in an interview with Motherboard that it staged this attack because it did...

Dita Von Teese has a new home. The burlesque dancer, model, and costume designer just snapped up a 3,200-square-foot classic Tudor-style home in Los Angeles for $2.83 million.

These seven famous geniuses had seven very different work spaces. Based on your desk, what kind of genius might you be?

Two advisers in Nevada have learned that investors who try to pick stocks that will outperform the market will fail to do so over long periods.

Couples who choose not to marry just got another big tax break following a recent major decision by an appeals court in California.

Michelle Lee is among the country's highest-profile federal officials. Not only is she the director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office -- making her a key player in setting innovation policy in the United States -- ...

A psychologist suggests we should be skeptical about all that positive ra-ra.

T. S. Eliot fans who happen to be in London next month may be in luck. Viggo Mortensen is scheduled to read ?The Waste Land? on Friday, September 11 at the British Library to mark the 50th anniversary of the poet?s death...

Young robotics whiz Melonee Wise talks about how her startup Fetch Robotics aims to revolutionize warehouses and manufacturing with cheaper, more capable robots.

Mozilla today announced major changes coming to how Firefox add-ons are built. While this is mainly aimed at add-on developers, the end results will trickle down to Firefox users over the next few months and years. Back ...

The preliminary Caixin China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index for August, a gauge of nationwide manufacturing activity, fell to a 77-month low of 47.1.

If you wanted to buy a Boston pro sports team, it would require a very deep wallet (provided a team was even for sale). But there is a slightly more palatable option out there, and available now: The Boston Lobsters are ...