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Maybe you saw the headline a few weeks ago: a group known as the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. The Quartet is a “many-hued association of labor unions, businesses, human-rights...

Europe's 2008 financial crisis may have resulted in some 50,000 horses to be sold and unwittingly eaten across the United Kingdom, the Telegraph reported Saturday. Food safety expert Chris Elliot gave a speech recently s...

If it's about increasing transparency within the finance industry, the Securities and Exchange Commission's whistleblower program is clear as mud. The program, created as part of Dodd-Frank legislation passed by...

One big difference between rich people and average people is what happens between the ears. "Being a product of two strong dads allowed me the luxury of observing the effects different thoughts have on one's life," Robe...

Mattel (MAT) reported Q3 2015 results yesterday and missed expectations. Revenue of $1.79 billion missed analyst estimates of $1.89 billion. Net income came in at $223.8 million and an EPS of 71 cents per share, compare...

Wall Street often puts the individual investor to sleep, then picks his or her pockets, say the authors of a new book. And the blockbuster charges don't end there. In...

Facebook wants to help you make your next impulse buy. The company is diving full-force into ecommerce, with a handful of ad products and features meant to ramp up its shopping efforts.  In a blog post Monday morning, ...

The NYPD asks if you see something, say something. And now a band of Wall Street gadflies are similarly seeking help in sniffing out weapons of financial destruction. The financial...

Digital media has transformed the way brands do marketing, but it's only now beginning to effect the way we measure. Here, Alex and Ani advisor and former CMO Ryan Bonifacino shares the method to his measurement madness.

On Tuesday, Microsoft did something interesting: it moved even further into the hardware game by introducing a new laptop, the Surface Book.  Except, the Surface Book isn't really a laptop at all, it's a hybrid that sta...

Walled gardens are a great distribution channel for publishers' content. Users are more likely to stop and smell the roses, so to speak, leading to greater reach and increased engagement. But, as this model begins to dom...

We celebrate winners and forget losers. It's survivor bias. Don't read too much into the winners if you're building your own company.

Orchestrating big data, cloud and mobility strategies leads to 53% greater growth than peers not adopting these technologies. 73% of midmarket companies say the complexity of their stored data requires big data analytics...

More than 65 million seniors got their pockets picked last week, and the hue and cry could be heard across the country. The Social Security Administration announced Thursday that there...

General Motors is recalling 395 vehicles for air bag defects          

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FEATURE: Tod Wilson knows what it means to be a small business owner. He's been traveling down the entrepreneurial path since he graduated high school. Working with his grandfather in the bakery business got him hooked a...

"At that point I said, you know what? I'm done with financial services. I don't like the business model, I don't like how they operate, I don't like the fact that those who can least afford it always pay the most, I don'...

DETROIT (AP) -- Matt Prater kicked a 27-yard field goal with 2:29 left in overtime, and the Detroit Lions beat the Chicago Bears 37-34 on Sunday for their first victory of the season. Matthew Stafford heaved a 57-yard pa...

The latest on the League Championship Series. The Mets and Cubs play Game 2 of the NLCS in New York with the first pitch set for 8:07 p.m. The Royals and Blue Jays play Game 3 of the ALCS in Toronto on Monday night. Here...

From the looks of straphangers during rush hour, with their headphones, smartphones, and e-readers, it would be easy to miss how old the New York City subway system is. But every day, hundreds of trains run through the l...

For the most part, owners are not required to have repairs made to Volkswagen cars whose emissions systems were modified to cheat federal tests.