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Today's Tax Geek Tuesday topic was born out of necessity; in recent years, I have seen a depressing amount of late partnership tax returns because the tax advisor failed to recognize that the partnership had actually ter...

Weight Watchers has changed a lot in the years since Queens housewife Jean Nidetch started the company after a neighbor assumed she was pregnant (she wasn't.) Though still a popular way to take off the pounds, the compan...

Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google are just getting started

New data sheds light on the fight over Medicare drug payments.

Gangs like the Mara Salvatrucha have spread their influence all over the Western Hemisphere, and one of the clearest signs that you're dealing with a member is the garish tattoos that often adorn their bodies. The design...

Brent Kruithof started exercising at home instead of the gym because he was working long hours as an accountant. To maximize his workouts, he created the FLYUP, sliding resistance grips that aim to make working out at ho...

Tristan Fewings/Getty Images Peter Thiel is today known as one of the most successful and colorful venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. He came to fame and fortune by co-founding PayPal and then as an early investor i...

Former Paulson & Co. partner Samantha Greenberg has received a $130 million commitment in seed money from alternative investment manager, Ramius LLC, for her new hedge fund, Margate Capital. Greenberg started Margate...

Many wealthy Chinese are moving their families and riches to Western cities like Vancouver, where their children show off cars and diamond-encrusted watches.

Liu Yiqian, the flamboyant Shanghai billionaire who has made headlines around the world for record-breaking bids at auctions organized by the likes of Christie’s and Sotheby’s is moving to build up a family-backed au...

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited a New Delhi charity that supports street children. While they were there, they talked to one of the charity's trustees, Sanjoy Roy, about what the world should know about the ki...

Lucas Di Grassi put the pain of being stripped of victory at the Mexico City ePrix by taking the checkered flag in Long Beach Saturday.

LG has revealed both a software development kit (SDK) and a hardware development kit (HDK) to developers, with the goal of encouraging an ecosystem of modules to clip into the LG G5‘s so-called Magic Slot. The kits wil...

Chase Elliott Clark/flickr.com Everything that we are and everything that we are not is an end result from our current level of thinking. Every great achievement in history came from exceptional thinking. Every man or wo...

Kristina Barker/Reuters For some of us who ride, we wish there were CliffsNotes on riding a motorcycle. Everyone always says experience and skill comes with time (absolutely true), but there are certain things I really w...

(Reuters) - Wall Street was slightly higher on Tuesday as a surge in oil drove gains in energy stocks.

By Hugh MacArthur, Graham Elton, Dan Haas, Suvir Varma and Carl Evander

The residential property market in Ireland is set to rebound in 2016 as price momentum has already been growing in the first quarter of the year, according to the latest survey report. But Dublin is likely to lag behind ...

The technology behind Bitcoin is becoming more widely used, but startups and established institutions face conflicting regulations in different jurisdictions. The Global Blockchain Forum aims to help.

Rockstar Games is now defending itself in the public as well as in court. The Grand Theft Auto developer has responded to a lawsuit from the game’s former director Leslie Benzies by filing a countersuit of its own and ...

Grand Theft Auto V developer Rockstar Games is notoriously cagey about sharing the details of its operation, but a pair of lawsuits may force many of those secrets out into the open. For example, we now have an idea of h...

Nik Richie growing tired of being a "cubicle warrior" doing credit card processing had an inspiration. Noting the success of "reality TV", he thought that "reality internet" might be a thing.  So he started a gossip blo...