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IN LATE 2012, just before the release of "House of Cards", Ted Sarandos, chief content officer of Netflix, declared: "The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us". Few took him seriously. HBO had a globally r...

Larry Page and Sergey Brin also reportedly struggled to answer a question about who their female role models were. Sergey Brin may need to Google Gloria Steinem. Read Full Story

Let's get off the economy for a moment and talk about something really important: junk phone calls. Which are your favorite ones? I like the ones that start with a friendly, recorded voice that immediately says "don't ha...

Argent Financial Group will buy Live Oak's pre-need funeral trust business in a deal set to close later this year.

Long-term U.S. mortgage rates declined this week, in a quiet pause after weeks of market anxiety over rising interest rates. Home borrowing rates still remain at their highest levels in …

Orange County Bancorp has identified two neighboring counties for expansion.

Workers in the tech company's offices around the world protested on Thursday against how it has handled cases of sexual harassment and misconduct.

DETROIT -- As General Motors reported a healthy $2.5 billion third-quarter profit, the Detroit automaker ramped up its cost-cutting efforts by offering buyouts to 18,000 white-collar workers. The company, while acknowled...

The New York Jets are doubling down on their gaming sponsorships. Woody Johnson's team announced Wednesday it has named MGM Resorts International its official gaming partner. This comes as the team is set to announce a s...

A high-ranking Google executive has resigned after getting spotlighted in a report last week about top officers at the search giant who were accused of sexual misconduct. Richard DeVaul, who was a director at Google pare...

No two bear markets are alike, but they do have common characteristics

Striking fashion MUMBAI, INDIA'S financial capital, is famous for its appalling traffic. But since October 22nd its roads have been miraculously clear. The reason is that drivers for Uber and Ola, India's two biggest rid...

JINJIANG, A COASTAL city in Fujian province, is known for its thriving $15bn shoe industry. Since the announcement in 2015 of a national plan to dominate ten promising industries, known as "Made in China 2025", the city ...

BlackRock Inc Chief Executive Larry Fink said on Thursday the United States is on a path to a full-fledged trade war against China as the world's two largest economies engage in tit-for-tat tariffs.

U.S. prosecutors unveiled criminal charges on Thursday against two former Goldman Sachs Inc bankers and Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho tied to the Malaysia 1MDB sovereign wealth fund scandal.

Swiss bank UBS will expand training for specialist staff investigating sexual misconduct claims, and introduce a confidential hotline to handle such allegations, according to an internal memo sent to staff and seen by Re...

Target released its big Black Fridayad is offering a handful of deals online and in-store Thursday to celebrate.        

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said trade discussions with China were "moving along nicely" and that he planned to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the upcoming G-20 summit, after the two had a "very go...

Facebook will begin requiring businesses to confirm their relationships with other businesses before sharing pixels or offline event sets with them. Businesses will also be required to reaffirm their compliance with Face...

The biggest buyers of stocks are coming back. More than any other group, companies themselves are the largest purchasers of their own shares. But they were notably absent from the …

Businesses were holding back on buying back their own stock in the last few weeks because they were in one of their "blackout" periods, a regular occurrence leading up to the release of their quarterly results

Survey: US factories grew more slowly in October, cite trade disputes