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Phone calls this week to BlackJet, the private jet seat-booking service backed by Ashton Kutcher, Jay Z's Roc Nation and others, went directly to an answering service. The West Palm Beach, Fla., company, which was still ...

From Walmart to McDonald's these are America's most popular stores. Douglas McIntyre of 24/7 Wall Street takes a look at the Top Ten.          

Good morning! Here are the plays everybody will be talking about Friday. The Oklahoma City Thunder have eliminated the San Antonio Spurs. The Thunder will meet the Warriors in the Western Conference Finals after a weird ...

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images One of the biggest causes of the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 was as obvious as looking in the front yards of homes across the country. Foreclosure signs popped up at a startling rate, an...

Editor’s note: Cynthia McKinney Drayton leads global partnerships at Ashoka in support of social entrepreneurs throughout the world. Before coming to Ashoka, Cynthia founded and built a children’s and ladies’ appar...

Wall Street just got its second tech initial public offering of the year -- and it looks like profits are sexy again. Acacia Communications -- a Massachusetts-based maker of high-speed optical data cabling -- raised $103...

China plans to spend heavily on technology to help cities cope with headaches such as air pollution and traffic jams -- and perhaps unruly mobs and outlaws. Silicon Valley companies are teaming up to seize the opportunit...

Savvy investors understand that the miracle of compounding accelerates total return, the longer the time frame, the better. I don’t think there’s a better gift for a graduating grandchild or other loved one than a gi...

Social media can be a powerful marketing tool if you know how to use it.          

Flickr/Paul Longinidis This post from LinkedIn Influencer Andreas von der Heydt appeared originally on LinkedIn. In today's complex and highly dynamic world, many people rush from one meeting to another. They chase task...

Brazil's new president, Michel Temer, takes over an economy in a deep recession. Can his team turn the ship around?

Apple Inc. hasn’t had the smoothest ride in China in recent months, with it’s Apple Entertainment content platform taken offline by regulators only months after becoming available on the mainland, local competition b...

CalTech theoretical physicist Sean Carroll stopped by BI to talk about string theory, parallel universes, and other exciting topics he discusses in his new book, "The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the...

David Bonderman, a giant of the private equity sector, has completed a move to a less active role at his TPG Capital, sources tell The Post. Bonderman, 73, who co-founded the firm 24 years ago, is no longer involved as m...

The automaker warned owners not to drive the certain models until they were inspected or repaired.

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LAS VEGAS -- There are few places where Will Smith, Caitlyn Jenner, John Boehner, and Kobe Bryant are the sideshow -- but that was exactly the scene on Thursday as the hedge fund industry gathered here for its annual pow...

State lawmakers hope to offer relief to thousands of Louisiana drivers who collectively owe millions of dollars to the Office of Motor Vehicles in unpaid fines from lapsed insurance coverage. …

It's a scary world for hardware startups, who face a road far less traveled than their software counterparts. With fewer guides to help them navigate, founders are more prone to mistakes--and ultimately--failure.

Vysor, a free Chrome app that garnered attention last year thanks to its ability to let you control an Android device remotely through a desktop computer, has been removed from the Chrome Web Store. The person behind Vys...

The 4th annual FORBES Women's Summit brought together influential women from diverse industries and backgrounds. They shared how they're redefining power.

FEATURE: If you think all betas are glorified demos, you’re wrong. Gamers are buzzing about Overwatch, Blizzard’s upcoming team-based shooter. While it doesn’t debut until May 24 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC...