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Che Jianxing started poor, working with wood, and ended up building the first name in Chinese furniture.

HONG KONG (AP) -- Japanese stocks rose Wednesday as investors bet on another shot of stimulus from the country's central bank while other Asian benchmarks slipped ahead of U.S. growth figures and the Fed's latest policy ...

Remember: Just because it's your dream company doesn't mean it's your dream job.

We've shown you the 100 best apps in the world, and now it's time to take a look at the most innovative ones on the list. These 10 apps are changing the way we communicate, get things done, travel, and learn. They're pus...

Your high-pressure job is slowly killing you, according to a recent study from researchers at Harvard and Stanford.

In the social media world, a disproportionately high number of users are actively describing themselves as "gurus." What is a social media guru? That depends on who you ask. The unfortunate truth is that "guru" is an int...

Forget about those hokey attractions at amusement parks. There are real haunted houses spread across America. We're talking about the true-blue, creepy-as-can-be haunted houses. The houses where local residents claim the...

The anchor Harris Faulkner wants Hasbro to pay $5 million because it made a plastic toy hamster named "Harris Faulkner."

HP could show the same weakness in emerging markets that Canon, Lexmark and Xerox have reported.

People often like to groan about how their job is "killing" them. Tragically, for some groups of people in the U.S., that statement appears to be true.A new study by researchers at Harvard and Stanford has quantified jus...

Bike traffic is a lot less bad than car traffic. At 8 am in Copenhagen--when around half a million people bike to work--traffic jams look a little different. Read Full Story

A disturbing new study found that dangerous medication errors occur in almost half of all surgical procedures. Additionally, one-third of all errors resulted in adverse drug events or harm to patients.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Johnny Cueto is happy at home, and that's where he'll pitch in the World Series. The excitable right-hander with those signature dreadlocks is scheduled to start for the Kansas City Royals in Gam...

MeQasa.com, one of Ghana?s leading online real estate classifieds businesses, has secured a $500,000 investment from Frontier Digital Ventures, a global VC firm headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

As baby boomers exit the workforce en masse, the race to attract the best and brightest millennials has employers across the country scratching their heads, re-thinking the tried and true recruitment and retention strate...

After a blowout loss to ACC-rival Clemson, the University of Miami fired Al Gordon. The expectation among many college football fans is that "The U" belongs among the elite programs. Was their success in the 1980s and ar...

Fluor will see an EPS boost from taking over construction of nuclear projects in Georgia and South Carolina.

Here are the obvious signs that you're well-liked in your office.

Some of the biggest technology companies in America will soon need to make a choice: How deeply invested do they want to be in wireless technology?As policymakers in Washington inch closer to launching a historic auction...

The District of Columbia Public Service Commission on Wednesday gave new life to Exelon Corp.'s $6.4 billion bid to merge with Pepco after flatly rejecting the deal last summer.The three-member commission voted unanimous...

(Reuters) - Activist investor Carl Icahn disclosed a "large stake" in American International Group Inc and urged the company to spin off its life and mortgage insurance units into public companies to shed the U.S. govern...

More women and younger women are learning how to become angel investors and that's likely to open doors for women entrepreneurs.