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Retired professional road racing cyclist Christian Vande Velde and his wife, Leah, earlier this month sold their five-bedroom, 8,000-square-foot ranch-style house on 6 acres in Lemont for $800,000. A Lemont native, Vande...

Courtesy of Blade Blade, the on-demand transportation startup sometimes called "the Uber for helicopters", is offering a special service for users heading to the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April.  For $...

Chris Hondros/Getty Images If you think you've heard it all, you're either a therapist or a recruiter. (Of course, sometimes people treat their recruiters and HR people in general like therapists, but that's another pos...

After struggling in the final three months of 2015, the U.S. economy is thought to be rebounding in the current quarter, though not as strongly as most analysts had once expected. …

A defiant New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie warned on Thursday that the state will not unconditionally bail out a nearly bankrupt Atlantic City, despite it being weeks away from insolvency. "This is uncharted territory," Ch...

Reuters/Lucy Nicholson The depletion of old oil wells is expected to surpass new sources of supply in 2016, as the ongoing oil price slump puts a long list of oil projects on the shelf. Bloomberg flagged new data from t...

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Phanawatnan Kaimart invented the Elide Fire Extinguishing Ball after he survived the 1997 Royal Jomtien Resort Hotel fire, which killed nearly 100 people. It's safer to use than a normal fire extinguisher: it spreads dr...

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The Yangon Stock Exchange began trading with only one listing and without access to foreign capital, a largely symbolic opening underscoring Myanmar's frontier-market status.

Not abiding by the rules (even if unintentionally) set by the CAN-SPAM Act might land your business in legal hot water and burden you with financial penalties.

One entrepreneur explains why HR quickly became a crucial function in her business.

Good morning! Here are the plays everybody will be talking about Friday. Dunk of the Year? Dunk of the Year. Sometimes something is so good, it doesn't matter where or who. This play comes from the Iowa Energy of the NB...

Elon Musk likes his secrets. Tesla Motors isn’t known for being particularly open to the media, especially when it comes to major projects like the lithium-ion battery cell “Gigafactory” taking shape just outside R...

Mainland Chinese tourists splashed out a record US$215 billion on their holidays abroad last year despite slowing economic growth and stock market turmoil at home, an industry report said. The figure was 53 per cent high...

A credit rating agency on Thursday welcomed the end of Pennsylvania's nine-month budget stalemate but said the spending package doesn't resolve the state's structural budget deficit or address its looming pension crisis....

ConAgra Foods has been found liable for $108.9 million in a civil lawsuit stemming from a fatal 2009 plant explosion in North Carolina. …

A federal judge ruled law-school graduates who file for bankruptcy protection can cancel the debt they racked up while studying for the bar exam, finding such loans are different from traditional federal student loans th...

Last year many investors holding value stocks were bruised by losses, while growth investors outperformed them for the year and on a five-year average annual basis, using the iShares S&P 500 Growth and Value ETFs as a ro...

(Reuters) – Seven Iranian hackers broke into computers of dozens of U.S. banks, causing millions of dollars in damages, and tried to shut down a New York dam, the U.S. government said on Thursday in an indictment that ...

A bond offering based on personal loans made by Prosper Marketplace got a cold reception, the latest sign of investor skittishness toward fast-growing online lenders.

First they were just a couple of stoners hanging outside a convenience store. Now they could be video game stars. The characters Jay and Silent Bob have been in numerous movies, comics, and more since their debut in the ...