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Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer may have taken umbrage at suggestions that Yahoo!'s holiday party was a lavish $7 million affair, but what isn't in dispute are the huge stock awards going to senior executives at the faltering I...

Like all great pro-athlete breakthroughs, Julian Edelman embraced the drive and determination to carry out his goals.  What Edelman has achieved by entering into new territory from college quarterback to  New England P...

Reuters French car-maker PSA Peugeot Citroen will pay Iran over $446 million (400 million euros) in compensation for losses after it quit the country due to sanctions, the managing director of the country's largest carm...

Flickr/Nathan Rupert Dieters beware: Not all weight-loss plans are created equal, and for some, timing is key. You might be enticed, for example, by a diet that claims it can help you shed 20 or 50 pounds in a couple of ...

The investment deal makers and deal breakers that startups should know

Spencer Platt/Getty Images I left my last job because I didn't get promoted. Actually, I left because I didn't see a path to promotion — not then and not any time in the foreseeable future. That lost hope is really wha...

More people will have mobile phones (5.4B) than electricity (5.3B), running water (3.5B) and cars (2.8B) by 2020. By 2020, over 75% of the world’s mobile data traffic will be video, making this category the highest gro...

Why do people really want to have lots of money? No, really.

After two years offering uninsured Americans subsidized products on public exchanges, health insurance companies have been hard-pressed to find financial success in this segment of the Affordable Care Act with losses re...

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To hear Mary Francis Matney tell it, Walmart didn't kill the once-vibrant cluster of shops next to a railroad and a creek in the faded old coal town of Kimball, W.Va. -- the disappearance of the mines had pretty well tak...

As Uber ramped up its local delivery service last year, no one feasted more than New York's grizzled corps of bicycle couriers. When it launched its UberRush delivery service in New York last spring, Uber was paying bike...

PETA One advert you won't see during the big game later is People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)'s raunchy spot, which the animal rights campaign group said was ignored by Super Bowl broadcaster CBS when it...

Unlike the investors' relaxed confidence the first half of last year, nervous uncertainty rules the stock market. But prices are down, even for good growth stocks. Here's how to take advantage.

Screenshot Mark Zuckerberg showed off his Mandarin Chinese skills in a video on his Facebook page Saturday to celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year.   Facebook's CEO, who has been studying Mandarin for several years an...

President Barack Obama said Sunday in a very lighthearted interview that he's working on improving the White House's wireless Internet connection for the next first family.

Titanfall 2 will have a single-player campaign and a companion TV show, Respawn Entertainment’s lead writer Jesse Stern told Forbes in an interview. This revelation shows that Respawn — started by Call of Duty vetera...

Renewable-energy giant SunEdison is in deep financial trouble. But there may be a way to profit.

The CEO of Credit Suisse has asked his board to slash his bonus, after the Swiss bank posted quarterly results that sent its share price tumbling lower.

Central banks in some emerging markets are stepping up efforts to flood their financial systems with cash, highlighting the pressure that they face from rapid capital flight.

Google is planning to release a new virtual reality headset for smartphones this year, pegged as a successor to its Google Cardboard platform and similar to Samsung’s Gear VR. The company will add extra support for the...

Wall Street has soured on Yelp as the company grapples with rising costs, slowing user growth and a slumping stock price.