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Sure, you want everyone to get along. But trying to make everyone happy can ruin your reputation. Sure, you want everyone to get along. But trying to make everyone happy can ruin your reputation. Over a decade ago, busin...

Shutterstock Ten minutes deep into an employee-drive-by "got a minute?" meeting, a good leader begins to realize their employee is a liar. The ask of simply wanting a minute has now turned into 10 minutes of venting. Of ...

Automotive safety isn't what it used to be, and that's a good thing.

Former WWE CEO Linda McMahon has been tabbed by President-elect Donald Trump as head of the Small Business Administration. From the outside looking in, this appears to be an unprecedented, bizarre campaign becoming even ...

I’m always on the lookout for companies doing amazing things that have a beneficial impact on others, and Shift.org appears to be one of them. The company launched on Thursday with an honorable mission: to help people ...

If Shigeru Miyamoto wants to retire from Nintendo, he could potentially find a new gig as a musician. The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon has invited Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aimé on to show off the upcoming ...

Imagine eBay, Snapchat, Youtube and coolhunters had a baby...that's YEAY and it's about to take over Gen Z's lives in the pursuit of fame, fortune and fun. This is mobile commerce (the tiny $360B industry) on crack...

GUEST: In an essay in the Guardian last week, renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking wrote: "Whatever we might think about the decision by the British electorate to reject membership of the European Union and by ...

Thomson Reuters A person’s breath is usually invisible. It’s quiet and automatic, unseen and unheard. It can be so silent that anxious parents holdmirrors next to their newborns’ faces, trying to catch a glimpse of...

The Mexican government collected $2.65 billion from oil-price hedges taken out to protect the 2016 budget from a drop in prices, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday.

REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton Most of what the incoming Trump administration has proposed in terms of economic and regulatory policies would be a boon for big banks, but there is one policy that cuts both ways: Trump's desir...

Ten publicly traded banks have raised about $950 million in recent weeks, taking advantage of surging stock prices. Additional banks are expected to follow, setting the stage for more M&A and other growth moves.

A federal agency announced Wednesday that a playground equipment distributor announced the recall of about 1,300 slides because of a weld separation that puts children at risk for amputations. The …

Last week, rates for a 30-year-fixed mortgage crept up to 4.08 percent, according to the most recent numbers released by Freddie Mac. That’s an increase of a little over half a percent in just three weeks, and the high...

Web developers have Google Analytics. Mobile publishers have Flurry. There are analytics for servers, analytics for marketing, and analytics for sales. Now we also have analytics for smart agents. Today as Google announc...

China's imports grew at the fastest pace in more than two years in November, fuelled by its strong thirst for commodities from coal to iron ore, while exports also unexpectedly rose, reflecting a pick-up in both domestic...

Amid multi-year low oil prices and a record high global oil supply glut, Saudi Arabia has been trying to diversify its economy - with mixed success. However, in good news for the world's largest oil exporter, the kingdom...

Microsoft today started rolling out a new Windows 10 preview build for PCs for those who participate in the Windows Insider program. Build 14986 comes about a week after Microsoft released build 14977 for Insiders but st...

AP/Pat Sullivan Ronald Bert Smith walked into a Huntsville, Ala., convenience store with a Colt .45 semi-automatic pistol on Nov. 8, 1994, and shot clerk Casey Wilson to death during a robbery captured on video. A jury i...

Lucas Jackson/Reuters Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich marked the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor by hailing what he called Japan's "professional brilliance and technological power." The curiously-worded...

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Ethan Miller/Getty Images The biggest debate in sports media right now is this: Is ESPN in trouble or not? The network has sparred with ratings company Nielsen over how many subscribers it's losing (Nielsen says more tha...