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Wireless tower companies trade at a discount to REITs, with faster growth and 20% upside in 18 months.

NEW YORK -- Industrial conglomerate General Electric Co. on Friday reported a decline in third-quarter profit, but strong performances from its core units helped the company top Wall Street expectations. General Electric...

Estimates by mobile research firm App Annie show the Apple App Store still owns an overwhelming majority of all revenue made through apps, even as the Google Play Store gets more downloads.

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Steve Ballmer has scooped up a 4 percent stake in Twitter -- a surprise move that makes the former Microsoft boss a bigger shareholder than Chief Executive Jack Dorsey. "Glad...

Insidesales, last valued at roughly $1.5 billion, is a startup that makes software for salespeople. It dissects billions of sales-related data to predict the best time and person to contact when selling something. The co...

Budweiser owner AB InBev said Tuesday morning that it had reached an "agreement in principle" with SABMiller on one of the biggest mergers in history. The deal will value SABMiller at £44 ($67.62) a share, or around ...

Howard Rogers, CEO of BrightClaim shares how his company jumped from a growth rate of fifteen percent to fifty-five percent in one year. There are three keys to their success that provide valuable lessons for anyone look...

If you want to help the American economy, you should drink more fancy-pants beer, according to Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.). "One of the great things about drinking craft beer is you're helping deal with our trade deficit...

Influential short-seller Carson Block is short TeliaSonera, a large telecom company based in Sweden. Block has released a blistering 37-page open letter to the company's board. The letter makes multiple serious allegatio...

British peer-to-peer lenders are already shutting up shop ahead of regulation of the sector, according to reports. The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is in the process of regulating the peer-to-peer sector, where...

Powerful companies create brands and products that we might not know are theirs. Companies' signature brands add to their annual revenues and provide an edge to competition. To determine how powerful each company is, w...

Even the best business ideas need to pivot once they start engaging with the market. Although our startup is just getting started, we have already made two critical pivots to our business model.

Securities fraud conjures up images of nifty accountants and financiers who massage profit and loss statements to meet investors’ expectations. But the criminal case against the former coal baron Don Blankenship has pu...

MILAN, Italy (AP) -- The stability of the world is directly linked to climate change and its impact on food security for billions of people, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday. In a speech to the Milan E...

When it comes to building your brand when you are a virtual worker, you need to behave differently in the absence of regular face time. Here's how to be visible and top-of-mind when you work from home.

Nearly 300 patients have filed lawsuits against a local cardiologist and his two partners, claiming that they performed needless operations.

The final US Airways flight is heading from San Francisco to Philadelphia, making the last leg of its roundtrip journey. …

WASHINGTON -- U.S. manufacturing production fell for the second straight month in September as factories cranked out fewer appliances, computers and electronics. Factory output declined 0.1%, the Federal Reserve said Fri...

Players making a run for the World Series can earn well into six-figures for postseason play. Forbes senior editor Kurt Badenhausen explains how millions of dollars is divvied up between players, teams and pro baseball's...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. employers advertised fewer job openings in August and kept hiring flat, another sign the American jobs market has lost strength since spring. The Labor Department reported Friday that job openings slid...