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The Pirate Bay is down again; the site couldn’t even get through the first week of 2016 without an outage. As always, the cause of the downtime is unknown, and the default message (Error 522 — Connection timed out) i...

Apigee, Attunity, Callidus, Ellie Mae, Interactive Intelligence, LivePerson and Tangoe could be value plays.

REUTERS/Jo Yong hak America's biggest banks are backing online lenders.  Wall Street institutions like Citigroup, JPMorgan and Barclays are partnering with startups that, in many cases, set out to disrupt the banks the...

AP Photo/Jerry McBride It has drawn remarkably little attention outside the West Coast, but a massive methane gas leak 25 miles northwest of Los Angeles is wreaking havoc with the community, displacing thousands of famil...

Arnold Nesis wanted to be a musician his whole life. However, his parents didn't like that plan, so he had to find himself a guitar that he could play. The only problem was, he had no money. "I go on eBay. I'm emailing ...

No mention of any Google partnership from Ford, which will triple its self-driving car test fleet.          

Thomson Reuters BOSTON — Billionaire investor Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Holdings hedge fund ended 2015 with a 20.5% loss after Valeant Pharmaceuticals, a top holding, was battered in the second half of the year. Pe...

Gun stocks rallied for a second day on Tuesday, as investors again bet that new restrictions rolled out by President Barack Obama not only wouldn't deter sales but would propel them.

Sales is the lifeblood of any company so finding the right sales force is absolutely crucial to growing your revenue. But how do you find and attract the top candidates? Here is the secret to hiring the best salespeople ...

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Tuesday will seek to cast himself as Wall Street's toughest cop and rebut criticism from the Clinton campaign that his policies aren't comprehensive enough.

An Illinois evangelical college that suspended a tenured professor after she launched a Muslim solidarity campaign has moved to initiate termination proceedings.

(Reuters) - Several major Yahoo Inc shareholders are so concerned the company's core Internet business could fall in value that they want it sold as soon as possible. The shareholders said they would prefer that than wai...

Faraday Future Inc. stole a page from the Tesla Motors Inc. handbook, unveiling an amped-up "concept" electric car in Las Vegas in front of hundreds of media and other guests attending the Consumer Electronics Show.

The Dominican Republic is full of caves you can swim through if you are brave enough to face the dark waters. The caves are part of the El Choco National Park in Cabarete, and a 10-minute walk from the beach. Hikers ca...

U.S. stocks pointed to a second day of volatile, but ultimately lower, action after Monday’s slide marked the worst start to a trading year in about a decade, according to market historians. On Tuesday, Asian markets c...

Puerto Rico's government is struggling to pay its bills. But mall owners and retailers are betting that consumers on the island will keep on spending.

It was my first day of class as a first-time Skype instructor, so I got right to it: "How many of you pay for content?" I asked a dozen or so University of Iowa journalism students as the fall semester got under way at ...

We’re reaching the saturation point on smartphones, demand for tablets and TVs has turned sluggish, and people have grown concerned that connected devices (the so-called “Internet of Things”) may lay bare their per...

Jon Sebastiani, who sold his startup KRAVE Jerky for $220 million last year to the Hershey Company, talks about his latest venture, Sonoma Brands, which will launch new consumer packaged goods brands and invest in food s...

Shares in Asia steadied in early trading, after China's stock regulator moved to calm investor nerves following steep losses on the first trading day of the year, which sparked a global selloff.

With the replacement of Spirit Airlines CEO Ben Baldanza by board member Robert Fornaro, who orchestrated the sale of AirTran to Southwest, speculation is swirling over whether this move could signal possible merger acti...

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders reiterates his calls for breaking up banks that are too big to fail and for reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act.