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© AFP/File Paul J. Richards French prosecutors have opened a serious fraud investigation into Volkswagen over devices the German automaker fitted into cars to cheat in emissions tests, a judicial source told AFP on Tue...

Mr. Hayes had sought to have his conviction on charges of manipulating a global benchmark interest rate reviewed by the Supreme Court of Britain.

REUTERS/Bobby Yip Bank of America Merrill Lynch is cutting jobs in its global banking and markets business on Tuesday. The job cuts have already taken place in Asia, and are working their way across timezones to Europe a...

There's an emerging case that long-form, high quality content might be the best way to build a millennial audience.

The marketing for Disney's 'Zootopia' was wacky, inventive, and even weird in the demographics it targeted - and it paid off in a huge way.

AGOR Engineering designs hidden pools. They're made with stainless steel contraptions that are waterproof and run on hydrolic systems that don't use oil. That way, they're safe. And also: expensive. One of these units is...

The measures are a response to growing concerns about corporate tax avoidance that costs the European Union billions a year.

The Internet and gambling know no borders. So it’s not surprising that online gambling is emerging in Africa. It’s hard to measure how much is happening with Internet gambling, but it has grown large enough to have i...

New signs of weakness are surfacing in the commercial property market, ending a half-decade run of improvement with steadily climbing values.

Tayjha Deleveaux is from the Bahamas, where 90.6 percent identify as Afro-caribbean. Her principal reprimanded her for having "uncombed and unkempt" hair in front of her entire class, and threatened her with suspension...

Here are 4 lessons from ex-CIA and FBI agents on detecting lies.

Airline calls the proxy fight a 'hostile action' that could distract it from executing new CEO's strategic plan.

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What is the 80/20 Rule and could it actually make 80 percent of your work disappear?

Tech leaders were joined by Republican Party leaders like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and former presidential adviser Karl Rove at the American Enterprise Institute's annual World Forum.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York was hacked -- and $100 million was swiped from the Bangladeshi government's account, Bangladesh's central bank charged Monday. The Central Bank of Bangladesh said the cyberthieves lau...

As the company struggles with declining customer traffic due to food safety issues, Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) announced in February that it is committing $10 million to provide education, training and financial ...

Gary Vaynerchuk What’s the biggest "but" you hear from others that holds them back? What is your "but" and how do you get off of it? Oh my God, the excuses. When you start a sentence with "I want to ..." then end up wi...

AP Apple CEO Tim Cook is quietly celebrated in the small town of Robertsdale, Alabama, according to The Washington Post, which published a profile of Cook on Tuesday with lots of color about where he grew up. The basi...

ANALYSIS: Amazon is continuing its big push into the brick-and-mortar realm today with the news that it’s opening a new staffed pickup location at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the first Amazon pickup location i...

It’s weird that game companies keep celebrating new launches by setting their online servers on fire. You’d think they would eventually learn. Ubisoft debuted Tom Clancy’s The Division tonight (or early this mornin...

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