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Plan ahead, have a budget and stay the course, no matter how big the discount. Don't loosen those purse strings without good reason

Building good working relationships and trust are critical to effective business partnerships. Building a strong business partnership takes intentional actions and consistent routines.

The air is crisp, the leaves are falling, and we find ourselves in the midst of one of the densest fall release seasons in recent memory. It’s a good time to buy either Sony’s PS4 or Microsoft’s Xbox One, and this ...

GUEST: The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus began shipping a few weeks ago, which means that iPhone fans everywhere are looking forward to the moment they can unbox their brand new device and start playing with Apple's newest offer...

We often hear about the best colleges in the US, but there are dozens more outstanding schools that don't always get the recognition they deserve. To discover the most underrated colleges in America, we compared US ...

The Legatum Institute, a think tank based in London, on Monday released its annual global Prosperity Index, a huge survey that ranks what it calls the most prosperous countries in the world. The amount of money a country...

Ever wonder how to snap a selfie that will break the internet? Luckily for you, a computer figure out how to do it. A new artificial intelligence (AI) system built by a Stanford University researcher Andrej Karpathy look...

Google's desktop operating system Chrome OS has been in the news recently after The Wall Street Journal published an article claiming Google was looking to "fold" it into Android, an operating system with an order of mag...

Apple has emerged victorious in a class action lawsuit brought against it by its retail workers over the company’s bag search practices. First cited by Reuters, a court filing indicates that Apple doesn’t need to rei...

Triple Crown winner American Pharoah will stand at stud for $200,000, one of the highest prices for a horse in his first year as a stallion. The fee was set by Ashford Stud, which operates as Coolmore's American breeding...

Deutsche Bank has joined an ever-growing list of global financial institutions that have been found guilty and fined for breaking US sanctions on a variety of unsavory regimes.

Credit cards are still considered the best way to begin a credit history. But . . . .          

Entering the biggest buying season of the year, retailers are once again desperately trying to get registers to ring with door busters, deep discounts, and BOGOs. Buyers have traditionally viewed sale price at the actual...

Deals involving electric, gas and water utilities hit a five-year high.          

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Hotel guests now need more than a body scrub and a foot massage to feel pampered when they stay at a five star resort. Travellers are now opting for whole body checkups, complete with an on-site physician and dietician t...

BEIJING (AP) -- Lower commodity prices dragged down China's October trade figures, but the volume of imported oil and other raw materials rose as the world's second largest economy was stocking up on bargains, showed cus...

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John Williams said he's still eyeing a central bank rate rise, noting it's important to get the process going so that future increases can come at a gradual pace.

Given the outrage that Republicans have expressed about the "targetting" of the Tea Party by the IRS, you would think that they would be slow to advocate IRS political targetting.  Apparently  it is more a matter of wh...

Google Life Sciences and the American Heart Association (AHA) announced that they’re joining together to fight heart disease. The organizations have committed to donating $25 million each over the next five years to th...

I had a visit this past week with Nora Flint, PR Manager of TruConversion. Her company is developing an app to assist companies in optimizing and tracking their social media results. With her editorial team, she provided...

GUEST: (Spoiler Alert: Accredited investors will be the primary VC source in 2016.) Startups will soon be able to solicit investments from anyone, thanks to new SEC rules. The crowdfunding regulations, known as Reg CF (o...