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What costs $500 million USD and can churn out up to 1 million cattle embryos a year? A new livestock cloning facility in north China...

Bill Gates and a group of elite private investors — including Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg, Alibaba cofounder Jack Ma, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, and Salesforce founder Marc Benio...

If all the Earth's land ice melted, sea levels would rise over 200 feet. So what would that mean for the United States' coastlines? Produced by Alex Kuzoian. Narrated by Graham Flanagan. Follow BI Video: On Facebook Join...

People think IPOs are all about catching a first day pop, but they should be all about valuation, which is where it starts to get tricky. Here's two companies to look at.

Wesley Snipes is still fighting with the IRS over a $24 million tax bill it sent just as he was coming out of prison.

(Via The Bridge) – Tokyo-based Coconala, previously known as WelSelf, offers an online platform under the same name where you can buy and sell knowledge, skills and, experience from users who are willing to teach. The ...

Black Friday's importance has waned as retailers have offered holiday sales earlier and longer.

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MSCI to include Chinese ADS issues in their index.

UBS predicted a decade of ‘super volatility among global currencies’ in 2010. Now that we are close to the halfway mark, it seems that they are correct and uncertainty is possibly increasing, making it harder for inv...

Swiss watchmaker Swatch, Visa Inc, and Visa Europe have launched a project that lets Visa cardholders in the United States, Switzerland and Brazil make payments with Swatch's new "pay-by-the-wrist" Swatch Bellamy watch.

The case below demonstrates the scope of “property” for federal estate tax purposes. The issue was whether a pending income tax refund was includable in the decedent’s federal gross estate. Interestingly, the case ...

Chinese investigators' widening investigation into what they deem suspicious or illegal trading activity is offsetting November's gains in the Shanghai Composite Index, after steady gains since late August.

Oranges may be Florida's best known agricultural product, but if Chris Cogan, the CEO of a startup called Healthy Earth has its way, the state could soon be known for its high-quality caviar, produced under the label Bla...

Skip the Champagne this New Year. Celebrate with bolder spirits, such as these whiskey picks from the experts.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has just published an application from Samsung (via 9to5Mac) that attempts to patent a foldable electronic device. It’s likely that one of the examples depicted in the application r...

In 2004, the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a National Security Letter (NSL) to a New York Internet service provider called Calyx. It’s a type of governmental information request that became much more common as...

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Cigna Corp (NYSE: CI), where a total volume of 7,369 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract v...

Through Etsy's new nonprofit, the company wants to create place-based business education for entrepreneurs seeking social change.

Congress sought to limit the Fed's discretion to make bailout loans. But the final rule still leaves the central bank a lot of leeway.

We may learn a little bit more about the Oculus Rift later this week. Oculus VR is going to make a “special announcement” this Thursday during The Game Awards, which is an annual livestreaming show that attempts to r...

Sluggish manufacturing activity could prompt the Fed to raise interest rates at a slower-than-expected pace in 2016.