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South Korea is the plastic surgery capital of the world -- to such an extent that parents will often pay for their children to have double eyelid surgery before they start college. A plastic surgeon in Seoul's Gangnam Di...

Values are more than mere beliefs.They determine how an enterprise will pursue its purpose.

Disney served shareholders a big turkey going into Thanksgiving with the disclosure that its biggest growth driver, ESPN, shed 3 million subscribers in its most recent fiscal year. That news -- buried in a late Wednesday...

MOSCOW (AP) -- When forest fires roared through Siberia this summer, so vast that the smoke blocked vast Lake Baikal from satellite view, Russian officials blamed the blazes on arsonists and disorganized fire crews. Envi...

The government's extraordinary effort since 2008 to get the economy moving has failed. Maybe it's the government's fault.

The politically incorrect card game had a Black Friday deal like no other this year.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran unveiled a new model of oil contracts Saturday aimed at attracting foreign investment once sanctions are lifted under a landmark nuclear deal reached earlier this year and said U.S. companies wo...

Go-go investors have tossed high-yielding techs overboard in favor of Facebook and Alphabet. But there's still plenty of money to be made in Seagate, Garmin, HP Inc., and Qualcomm.

The 7-inch Amazon Fire tablet was a Black Friday hit, according to receipts data collected by Info Scout. Info Scout makes a series of apps that allow users to photograph and manage sales receipts. The 8GB version of the...

Thanksgiving and Black Friday online sales set a new record in 2015: $4.47 billion, up 18 percent over last year. More specifically, $1.73 billion was spent on Thanksgiving and $2.74 billion was spent online on Black Fri...

GUEST: Despite having the world's third largest economy, Japan's social media ecosystem is perhaps the most unique in the developed world — and among the most difficult for Silicon Valley to understand, let alone capit...

Activist hackers from the Anonymous collective have claimed responsibility for bringing down five government websites in Iceland in a protest against whale-hunting by the North Atlantic nation. The sites, which included ...

When I began teaching as Visiting Professor in the MBA program at the University of Hong Kong in February 2012 I had entitled the course “Asia in the New Global Order”. At the first class one of the students asked, �...

A malfunction by an American Airlines bidding system program provided at least 200 legacy US Airways flight attendants with December schedules --including holiday schedules -- they don’t want to fly, provoking an angry...

Many times when we (myself included) speak about  the future of work, the conversations tend to skew toward larger companies. However, the reality is that smaller companies are actually poised to do quite well when we ...

GUEST: The consensus approach for building a great product is to craft a vision and then jealously guard that vision from outside interference as you drive it home. Product thought leaders have a simple strategy for this...

The Michigan Legislature returns Tuesday for two or three weeks of voting with a number of issues on tap before it adjourns for the year. …

The cryptocurrency exchange behind the recently launched OBITS currency initiative, CCEDK, is increasing the future payouts derived from profits and fees generated through user registrations on OpenLedger and other assoc...

Jeff Overall explains the stunning evolution of how he started producing homemade GoPro (GPRO) camera filters while a student at UC Santa Barbara. In four years, his company PolarPro expanded into making a variety of act...

The stock market was generally higher last week led by the 2.3% gain in iShares Russell 2000 (IWM). This was impressive compared to the 0.4% gain in the S&P 500 or the 0.14% loss in the Dow Industrials. The Dow Transport...

The marketplace-lending business has boomed in the post-financial-crisis era, with loan volumes swelling and the leading companies going public. The growth of the market — which matches borrowers with investors, who pu...

Building an efficient supply chain in rural India is tricky --- to say the least.