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Mondelez and other manufacturers feel pressure to feed rising chocolate demand. Ten big companies are spending about $1 billion to boost productivity.

Hotels are the latest hot target for hackers seeking credit-card and other personal data, who are taking advantage of uneven security and the hotel-based restaurants, spas and gift shops typically owned by other companie...

Yahoo is today announcing the release of a large-scale data set that describes people’s usage of news feeds on several of the company’s web services, including Yahoo News and Yahoo Finance. The idea is to empower mac...

Question: Dear Steve, Hi Steve, I co-signed my daughter's student loans which she and her husband stopped paying because Navient was asking for $1,100 a month (he lost the overtime advantage he was using to pay back the ...

Changes in energy prices and dependence on foreign oil had little to do with the stimulus law, experts say, crediting them to government policies, market forces and private sector activities.

With overseas weakness likely to further chill U.S. inflation, the Fed's rate-raising plans are in for a challenge.

Samantha Lee/Business Insider LONDON - A scientist set out her argument on Wednesday for being given a British license to conduct controversial experiments which would alter the DNA of human embryos. Critics of the propo...

REUTERS/Robert Galbraith When New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told a Harlem church this past Sunday that he wanted to once again try to provide college classes for New York state prisoners, he told the mostly black and Latino...

The most recent short interest data has been released by the NASDAQ for the 12/31/2015 settlement date, and we here at Dividend Channel like to sift through this fresh data and order the underlying components of the Nasd...

In November, Intel broke the world record for most unmanned aerial vehicles simultaneously in the air. They launched 100 drones in the sky, and programmed them to sync up with an orchestra playing Beethoven's Fifth Symph...

REUTERS/Thomas Peter Geopolitical expert George Friedman called Germany “a vulnerable, insecure country” in a bubble that could pop anytime. Speaking in a Mauldin Economics video interview from Amsterdam, Friedman sa...

Shares of European carmakers took a nosedive today on news that Renault’s offices were searched last week “regarding a fraud investigation possibly linked to emissions,” as Reuters put it.

WASHINGTON

I promised recently that I was going to explain how the US could "encourage" Middle Eastern countries to fix their terrorism problem by using that simple phrase beloved by our parents: "or else." As everyone already know...

We often hear about the "curse of the lottery" with sad, but all-too-familiar stories like Jack Whittaker, who went bankrupt and lost both his daughter and granddaughter to drug overdoses within four years of winning a $...

GoPro's had a rough week. After announcing that sales of its all-important holiday season were lower than they'd expected, the firm saw its shares take a dive almost worthy of the action videos on which GoPro's made its ...

The number of patients harmed by contaminated medical scopes in recent years far exceeds previous estimates from federal regulators, according to findings in a Senate health committee report published this week. During a...

Animation is pretty magical. Even old school animation—painstakingly drawing and illustrating each image to create a “moving” series of pictures—is awesome, but combined with technology animation is mind-blowing....

US Customs and Border Protection US Customs and Border Protection discovered half a million dollars of marijuana disguised as carrots on the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge connecting the Mexican-US border near McAlle...

With wholesale price index declining and being negative, inflation-indexed bonds are no longer preferred by investors

(Reuters) - Best Buy Co Inc said it expected its U.S. sales to fall by about 1.5 percent in the current quarter after weak demand for mobile phones during the holiday season, pushing its shares down 6 percent in premarke...

(Reuters) - U.S. stocks opened slightly higher on Thursday as oil prices rose and JPMorgan's strong results boosted bank stocks.