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Steven Spielberg's Amblin Partners and Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba Group's media arm announced a partnership Sunday to co-produce films for global audiences. The deal adds to a multibillion-dollar string of Chinese v...

There should be a genre known as the “funny puzzle games using narrators with British accents.” We’ve got another one of those with Schell Games’ I Expect You To Die for Oculus Touch controllers and the Oculus Ri...

Can you bend your arms behind your back, click your wrist or touch your thumb to your forearm? Most people describe someone with these talents as being "double-jointed," but that's not an accurate representation. Here's ...

Skye Gould/Business Insider On Tuesday, November 8, Americans will have the chance to go to the polls and elect the next president of the US. Women's health is usually a particularly divisive issue between Democrats and ...

Thomson Reuters These are weird, borderline surreal times for Tesla. America hasn't seen a new a major new car company since Chrysler in the 1920s, and in just over a decade, Tesla has gone from being a crazy Silicon Val...

Mariam Naficy, founder & CEO of Minted.com, a design marketplace focused in the stationery, art, and home categories. Mariam shares some wisdom and discusses what drives her.

GUEST: This year, analysts predict holiday sales will be up nearly 4 percent this year. Companies of all sizes are preparing for the spending surge by making tens of thousands of seasonal hires. To give you an idea of th...

Houston's unincorporated and rapidly growing northern suburbs lie in hundreds of special taxation districts called municipal utility districts that provide little in the way of political oversight and accountability. The...

Sherwood Neiss and Jason Best, along with a third partner Zak Cassady-Dorion, spearheaded the writing of crowdfund-investing legislation in the 2012 JOBS Act ratified by President Barack Obama. They have …

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GUEST: Just a few short months after the category took off, bots are everywhere. Facebook Messenger has over 18,000 bots (at least) on their platform already, and many of them are very good at the tasks they're supposed ...

About 40 minutes into the new movie Deepwater Horizon, there is a scene in which crew member Jimmy Harrell is suddenly called into the dining area on the floating drilling platform of the same name. “Mr. Jimmy,” play...

Greg Epperson/Shutterstock Many people are driven to do things that excite them, no matter how risky or terrifying those activities might seem to others. If you heard about a chance to ski down a steep backcountry slope...

The 23 largest metros generate half of America's GDP.

Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design/flickr Most of us strive to juggle the demands of both our personal and professional lives. But only some jobs afford us the ability to achieve just that. To help us f...

Reuters Amazon, the king of ecommerce, has long been a trailblazer in the world of online shopping. But now its business model is rubbing off on retailers, and changing the way we shop in traditional brick-and-mortar s...

One of the most dangerous things you can do as an investor is to make money – because of what you might do next. And… has the world’s debt been put to good use? It doesn’t seem that way. Those are a few of the me...

I really liked the Google Pixel phone when I tried it out the other day. I gave it some thought, and then, two days later, I logged on to the Google Store and pre-ordered one. At $649, it’s on the high end for a Google...

Have you ever wondered why so many of America's working class feel left behind and cheated? Why this country's economic "miracle" has created such a negative feeling in so many Americans? While this economy has been hars...

Thomson Reuters Market Cap to GDP is a long-term valuation indicator that has become popular in recent years, thanks to Warren Buffett. Back in 2001 he remarked in a Fortune Magazine interview that "it is probably the be...

Google is known for including Easter eggs, or hidden features, in its services. The forthcoming $129 Google Home smart speaker is no different. But rather than let them surface on social media or online message boards, G...

Already a growing haven for artists, fashionistas, foodies and techies, the Arts District is about to get a major influx of song and dance. In a shift that reflects the increasing importance of infusing the music industr...