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Earlier this week, Snapchat released a major update to its image-based messaging services with the same name. The update adds a few minor tweaks in different areas of the app such as the Snap timer, while the main highli...

How much would you have charged if two scrappy computer scientists came asking to rent out your own garage to start a company back in 1998? "$1,700 a month," said YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, recalling the rent she char...

Walmart workers are waging a new labor fight -- but the real drama is not aimed at their employer. Squabbling has broken out among union forces -- with a splinter...

Investors didn't get what they expected from the Federal Reserve.

Retailers have been under attack in recent years but not by the online competitors that may first come to mind. Instead, retailers have been under attack from Wall Street analysts who can’t wait to bury the next tradit...

Ford Motor Co.(F) 52-week range $10.44-$16.77

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Google’s second-generation Chromecast has been a while in the making, but now there appears to be some fresh leaks on what we can expect to see from it — and when. The new Chromecast, which almost looks like a party ...

Meet Chade-Meng Tan, whose friends call him Meng -- and everyone is his friend. Meng is an early Google employee, the engineer that helped build Google's first mobile search service, and headed the team that managed Goog...

Analysts say the first restart of a Japanese reactor since Fukushima presages a revival for prices of the commodity and related investments.

The D.C. metropolitan area added about 64,200 jobs in the one-year period ending in August after adjusting for seasonal changes, according to the latest government data. Unemployment in the District stayed flat at 6.8 fo...

Goldman Sachs is getting involved with the popular social media platform Snapchat. The banking giant is going to post a series of 10 second videos to Snapchat's Campus Story platform, according to Matthew Zeitlin at B...

If you thought traffic in Los Angeles was bad, just wait until you see how bad it gets in other major cities around the world. Goldman Sachs' Patrick Archambault shared a chart in a recent note to clients showing which ...

Mark Cuban always seems to come out on top. He sold his first company MicroSolutions, for $6 million. He did even better with his next company, Broadcast.com, which he sold to Yahoo for almost $6 billion. Almost immedia...

Traders who bet on the future path of the Fed's key policy rate pushed back expectations of the first interest-rate hike until 2016.

Zero percent store credit cards sound like free money, but there can be a hidden dangers if they're not paid off right away.

A deputy campaign manager for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) allegedly threw a punch at an aide to presidential rival Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) Thursday night inside a bar on Michigan's Mackinac Island.

Merryn Somerset Webb talks to the FT's Gillian Tett about interest rates, the bubbles in the US financial system, and how 'silo thinking' can be very bad for your wealth. The post Gillian Tett: it’s time to start raisi...

Apple has a reputation for being extremely secretive in its day-to-day operations. So secretive, in fact, that some employees didn't know they were working on the first iPad until Steve Jobs unveiled it on stage. That ma...

Questions around a troubled Malaysian state investment fund and missing money in the Middle East have widened to include as much as $1 billion more.

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Hawaii's unemployment rate is at a seven-year low. …