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Glassdoor Although Google has some pretty cushy perks, it's vacation policy is more-or-less standard among big tech companies. First through third-year employees get 15 days off, fourth year employees get 20 days o...

You make thousands of rational decisions every day — or so you think. From what you'll eat throughout the day to whether you should make a big career move, research suggests that there are a number of cognitive stumbli...

Facebook/Visit Seattle It's too often assumed that moving to a big city — like San Francisco, New York, or Boston — means giving up your love for nature. Fortunately, that doesn't always have to be the case. A recen...

Have you ever wondered why it's so hard for the average investor to make money in the stock market? Did you just miss the post-Brexit rally of 1,000 points, perhaps? You need look no further than the Federal Reserve. Sho...

A federal agency has started investigating 'angel' investors and banks from discriminating against the increasing numbers of women with small businesses Five years after its creation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bu...

Thomson Reuters Venezuela’s oil production plunged to a 13-year low in June as the economic crisis continues to eat into the nation’s only source of export revenue. Venezuela’s oil production has declined by 170,00...

Where many see chaos in Britain's exit from the E.U., some see opporunity.

This summer, autonomous cars collided with reality.          

Netflix Q2:16 earnings imminent

Thales top executive Pascale Sourisse says the firm is working on a purchasing policy to identify more Indian companies that can be suppliers

The minister in charge of negotiating Britain's exit from the European Union says some European Union citizens may not be allowed to stay after the U.K. leaves the bloc. …

The sucker punch followed a week in which the S&P 500 Index broke through to records after a 13-month hiatus and global stocks jumped to an eight-month high

Richard Buxton predicts that UK economy will judder to a halt, but adds that recession may not be as bad as some shares suggest One of the leading money managers in the City of London has said the fallout from Britain's ...

Political events in the US and the UK show working- and middle-class voters are far angrier than establishment leaders realised Two political events that are attracting global attention these days - the vote in the Unite...

Andrew Bailey had barely got his feet under the desk when political upheaval landed him with a new boss and a changed attitude towards the City A lot has changed since George Osborne announced Andrew Bailey as new head o...

In the mid-2000s, some reporters I know started using a piece of desktop software called Scrivener to organize their notes and drafts for longer work, particularly narrative journalism that involved scenes interspersed w...

The rise of Donald Trump coincides with the populist political shift that led to the Brexit vote.          

A tipster says that Massachusetts Judge George Phelan is on the verge of a decision about whether Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman can overturn his ouster from the Sumner Redstone family trust and the National Amusements Inc. ...

China auto industry billionaire Li Shufu, the main owner of Volvo Car Corp. and Geely Automobile Holdings, has brought one of his key financial executives back onto Geely Auto’s board of directors.

Pokémon Go is an international phenomenon not just because it offers a nostalgia-fueled game anyone can access on a smartphone, but also because it gets people out into the real world interacting with one another and th...

The health care revolution has only just begun. And the pain associated with its cost has been felt from the management ranks all the way down to the mail room, with the cost of plans exploding, research shows. The avera...

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