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The company says a New York Times story about what it’s like to work at the online retailer “misrepresented” it.

Many think of LinkedIn as a great place for professional networking, but using LinkedIn for content distribution can actually be an even more effective strategy for increasing your connections, traffic, and influence.

There may not be much wrong with Twitter other than its valuation.          

A 1956 Ferrari built for Formula One racing legend Juan Manuel Fangio is going on the auction block in New York City, where it could sell for more than $28 million. …

The White House is enlisting corporate America to try to bolster its push for an international climate change agreement. …

Shares of Weight Watchers International Inc. soared Monday morning on news that Oprah Winfrey is taking a 10% stake in the company and joining the firm's board of directors. The company's stock was up $5.86, a whopping 8...

U.S. stocks moved mostly lower in early trading Monday as investors sized up the latest batch of company earnings and new data indicating China's economy grew at the slowest pace in six years. Energy stocks were among th...

Why would a search advertising company want to make business software? It's been a lingering question for more than 9 years, ever since Google started to offer Google Apps, including Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Drive...

Governments borrow money all the time. In the modern economy, governments borrow money to pay for dams, cruise missiles, even the little plastic caps that fit on the legs of stools. They borrow to pay their millions of e...

Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew on Monday tried to increase pressure on lawmakers to raise the nation's debt limit before a Nov. 3 deadline, warning that he feared an accidental federal government default if they wait to...

Argentina is one of Latin America's most confounding economies. It is a country with stately, European style cities such as Buenos Aires and Cordoba and an export base that remains trapped in the nineteenth century. It h...

The organizers of Casual Connect Tel Aviv paid my way to Israel. Our coverage remains objective. Social casino games have become a $3.4 billion market and are on their way to $4.4 billion by 2017, according to Eilers Res...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - If you were born between the early 1980s and the early 2000s, there's a more than 40 percent chance your finances have you persistently stressed out, according to a new Bank of America poll. …

Chinese hacking attempts on American corporate intellectual property have occurred with regularity over the past three weeks, suggesting that China almost immediately began violating its newly minted cyberagreement with ...

China shares rise after 3Q growth report eases jitters about possibility of sharp slowdown

There is a significant amount of resistance overhead that U.S. stocks need to clear for another leg of the bull market to materialize.

The weak result compares with 7 percent growth in the previous two quarters, but was slightly better than the 6.8 percent economists had forecast.

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As Apple focuses on apps and Google pushes the mobile web, businesses must grapple with a fragmenting online world.

The retail giant forecast lackluster sales growth for this year and a steep profit dip for next, in part because costs are climbing sharply as sales are flat.

Chinese investors hamstrung by stock-trading restrictions are piling into copper trading, a shift that analysts and traders say has distorted the global market for the metal.