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(Reuters) - Drugmaker Merck & Co Inc , moving to a new sales team structure in the United States, plans to cut 1,800 sales positions, while adding 960 jobs to a new chronic care sales force, the company said on Friday.

Markets Insider Bitcoin is closing in on the $6,000 mark for the first time on Friday,trading up 5.1%$5988 a coin, according to Bloomberg data. The reason for Friday's sudden spike is unclear. The cryptocurrency had been...

Dramatic changes in the way banking services are delivered combined with slow economic growth has resulted in too many banks chasing too little business, said BB&T's CEO.

The IPO will be the first test of investor reception to the newest breed of online shopping companies.        

Stash is the latest young fintech to pair debit and savings products with financial advice as it competes for millennial clients.

Business Insider Business Insider executive editor Sara Silverstein speaks withRichard Turnill, global chief investment strategist at BlackRock, which oversees $6 trillion. She asks him about valuations, which many peopl...

The Senate passed a 2018 budget resolution 51-49. The resolution includes instructions for reconciliation, whichwould allow Republicans to pass tax reform without supportfrom Democrats. The Senate passedits fiscal year 2...

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Friday that the Republican tax overhaul will include a fourth bracket for the wealthiest Americans at the insistence of President Trump to ensure that high earners don't benefit more than ...

In trading on Friday, shares of Celgene Corp. (NASD: CELG) entered into oversold territory, hitting an RSI reading of 19.4, after changing hands as low as $121.10 per share.

Getty Images/Pool The percentage of Americans without health insurance increased to 12.3%in the third quarter. This is an increase of 0.6 percentage points from last quarter, and 1.4 points from a year ago. Gallup said t...

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California's recent wildfires have caused more than $1 billion in damage, according to a preliminary estimate Thursday from the state's insurance commissioner, and that total is only expected to rise.

Beck Diefenbach/Reuters Bill Gates announcedthat he would invest more than $1.7 billion in public education. Mark Zuckerberg invested $100 million into Newark Public Schools in 2010 and it was largely seen as a failure. ...

Jeff Bezos celebrated the opening of a new wind farm in Texas by standing on top of a giant wind turbine and smashing a bottle of champagne on it.

Bombardier Bombardier recently showed off its fourth and newest Global 7000 prototype private jet. The aircraftis expected to be one of the most capable and expensive private jets in the air with a price tag of $72.8 mil...

Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly decided that the time has come for a national cryptocurrency called the CryptoRuble. Last week, Russian authorities discussed...

The Group of Seven industrialized nations have thrown their support behind a new technology industry alliance aimed at detecting and blunting online propaganda to combat extremism on the internet. G7 …

California added 52,200 net new jobs in September, and the unemployment rate remained unchanged from a month earlier at 5.1%.

BI Intelligence This story was delivered to BI Intelligence Apps and Platforms Briefingsubscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Six months after Samsung unveiled its answer to Apple’s Siri and Googl...

If there was only room for one adult-skewing megahit this Fall, then 'It' beat 'Blade Runner 2049' to the punch.

Nintendo's latest video game console is off to a killer start. The Nintendo Switch is still hard to find, and it's regularly beating the competition in sales.Its main launch game, "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild...

VB EVENT: Every year, companies spend 1.3 trillion dollars on 265 billion customer service calls. That's five bucks a call. On average, the cost to find and hire a call center agent costs $4000 (not including salary), wi...