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Rocking Japan Inc., Kumiko Otsuka unseated her founder father in a bid to update their furniture retailer.

The U.S. Treasury Department's new rules making it harder for U.S. companies to perform “corporate inversions” that allow them to escape taxes were hailed Tuesday by Democratic politicians, including President Barack...

One of the Big Apple's most powerful supermarket unions is licking a new battle scar. Local 1500 of the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union was forced to turn tail and quietly back away from its aggressi...

Stocks are edging mostly lower in early trading as the market extends a slump into a third day. Energy stocks bucked the downward trend and moved higher Wednesday as the price of oil rose 3%. Chevron shares rose almost 1...

Ever wonder why airplane passengers are asked to lift up their window shades before takeoff and landing? A flight attendant explains why they do this. Produced by Will Wei Follow TI: On Facebook

AP Sen. Ted Cruz scored a momentous victory Tuesday over Donald Trump in Wisconsin — a win that puts a dent in the Republican frontrunner's hope of clinching the nomination before the July convention. In a speech to su...

I once managed an account that was the largest and most prestigious that my firm had ever won. When I got the assignment, I was so excited for the opportunities this account would bring, so long as I managed the project ...

The U.K. prime minister has become embroiled in fallout from the Panama Papers leak

Britain's top financial regulator has granted a license to Circle, a company based in Boston that will work with Barclays, the British bank.

The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit on Wednesday to halt Halliburton from merging with Baker Hughes, arguing the merger of the No. 2 and No. 3 oil services companies would hurt competition in the sector. The deal w...

U.S. stocks struggled to advance on Wednesday, switching between small gains and losses ahead of the release of minutes from the Federal Reserve's most recent policy meeting.

The Obama administration is unveiling rules that will require that brokers who recommend investments for retirement savers meet the stricter standard that now applies to investment advisors: They must act as fiduciaries ...

Walgreens Boots Alliance will obtain a pharmacy benefit manager once its acquisition of Rite Aid closes in the second half of this year but Walgreens CEO Stefano Pessina said the smaller EnvisionRx PBM would be too small...

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Germany's premium car makers Audi AG, BMW AG and Daimler AG, which owns Mercedes-Benz, are in talks with Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. that could lead to the tech giants taking minority stakes in the HERE digital m...

Joe Raedle/Getty Images In a less cynical age, the Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote that each of the 50 states that make up the U.S., "may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social a...

Montana officials sought to capitalize on North Carolina's loss and announced Wednesday that they would be courting PayPal to open an operations center. …

Applying for a job can be anxiety-inducing, but LinkedIn has come up with a way to tell you what your chances of getting a job could be — and what you can do to improve them.  A new patent awarded to LinkedIn on Tuesd...

A reader is concerned that he is being a Scrooge when he buys food-to-go.

One of the most disruptive changes we've seen in business over the last decade is the end of the traditional "career."

Reuters (Can Sezer) — Turkey is investigating how hackers have posted online the identity data of some 50 million Turks, including what they said were details about the president and prime minister, after what is belie...

Users of Valve’s Steam video game platform are finding some of the links they mention in chat automatically censored by filtering software, reports TorrentFreak. Specifically, affected websites include several — thou...