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MMCAP grabbed the No. 1 spot with more than a 38% annualized gain over three years. Finishing second this year is Knight Vinke Institutional Partners.

The maker of the Veg-O-Matic, the Showtime Rotisserie oven and the 5 Minute Pasta Wizard has been cooked again. Ronco -- whose TV spots hawked gadgets like Mr. Microphone and the Beef Jerky Machine, a dehydrator it calle...

Tech giants Google and Apple oppose adoption legislation in Kansas that many in the LGBTQ community consider discriminatory. An organization of more than 80 companies called TechNet sent legislators a …

Fred's CEO Michael K. Bloom has resigned as CEO after less than two years in the top job and a failed attempt to buy hundreds of Rite Aids.

President Trump finds himself boxed in on NAFTA, and is calling for a quick agreement. That's because the man likely to win election to be president of Mexico is a long-time opponent of NAFTA. Trump knows that the end of...

Inventory changes and the impact from exports and imports can have a large impact on reported GDP growth. When their effects are taken into account the March quarter's GDP growth rate falls from 2.3% to 1.7%.

HBO There's nothing a programmer likes more than a problem to solve. Perhaps that's why when Abstractions, a Pittsburgh-based conference about software development, issued a challenge on Twitter to find the best solution...

Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Gulf of Mexico 2018. Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are conducting an expeditionto explore shipwrecks in the uncha...

There's been a significant increase in the number of adults globally with an account at a financial institution or through a mobile money service, according to a new report. But many people are still being left out of th...

PIKEVILLE, Ky. -- On Election Day 2016, Jonathan Webb found himself on a lavish cruise liner with America's elite gliding along the Atlantic outside of Miami. Eric Schmidt of Google was there, so were Quentin Tarantino, ...

Oregon's newest large dairy has filed for bankruptcy a day before thousands of its cattle was set to be sold to repay a major creditor. The Capital Press reports that …

New elements are entering the franchise arena bringing complexities the franchise model has not experienced. How will franchisors respond to the mounting challenges they face in light of the limited educational assets av...

After a career of twists and turns and a lifelong passion for music, Pandora CEO Roger Lynch is ready to lead the company into its next chapter.

If you had read CEO Mark Zuckerberg's letter in Facebook's 2012 IPO Proxy, you could have anticipated him facing outraged legislators at a future date. Not only did the letter reveal Facebook's goals and mission, it also...

Reuters / Russell Boyce Bonds are losing their attractiveness as a way to diversify an equity portfolio, according to cross-asset strategists at Morgan Stanley. They examined several other asset classes to find the cheap...

Today we need to manage not for stability, but for disruption

Southeast Asian countries will work more closely with new powers China and India to counter the pressure of protectionism and ensure continued growth, Singapore prime minister said Saturday. Addressing the …

Podcasts provide value to a publisher because they represent a path to a healthy and engaged fanbase that cross-pollinates with an author or a franchise's audience, broadening both.

A former Bank of America executive who was accused of sexual harassment filed a $100 million arbitration claim against the bank, accusing it of concocting phony allegations against him because he was a whistleblower. Ome...

New Realm Brewing has announced that it will open a brewery and taproom in a Virginia facility that once housed the Green Flash Brewing Company. New Realm Brewing confirmed in …

A passenger who says she's been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder since an engine exploded on a Southwest Airlines flight is suing the airline and the manufacturer of the engine. …

REUTERS/Lucas Jackson US wireless carriers T-Mobile andSprintare finalizing terms as they seek to sign a merger by Monday that could valueSprintat around $26 billion. The combined company, with more than 127 million cust...