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New York City business owners may soon take a hike -- to neighboring towns in New Jersey and Connecticut, where labor costs now look much more attractive, say labor experts. By Jan. 1, New York City will officially hike ...

Leveraging data to drive better decisions is a top priority for most companies. Yet, few companies do this well. A recent survey by TMMData of 800 digital analytics professionals sheds light on the top data-related chall...

Glenn Kelman knows something about steering a company through tumultuous economic times. As chief executive of Seattle-based Redfin, Kelman led the discount real estate brokerage through the extreme boom-and-bust cycles ...

The days of merely visiting a local retail business and purchasing whatever is needed are long gone. To help your retail business grow and thrive, here are seven retail trends in marketing that you need to pay attention ...

Jill Lepore on a book of technology predictions that makes distressing reading at the end of a year that, a golden anniversary ago, looked positively thrilling.

Dear John: Thanks for your column on pizza sizes. Slow day at the office? Along those same lines, however, I found an interesting cocktail practice. If you have to wait for a table at a restaurant and go to the bar for a...

Times have been good for the economy -- but many young Americans are worried about their finances. And they are resolving to do better in 2019. Those are some of the conclusions of a recent study by Principal Financial G...

Billionaire Mark Cuban bought a $19 million beach house in California a few days before Christmas. The owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team plans to use the six-bedroom home as a vacation get-away, according to ...

New Year's Eve and New Year's Day don't disrupt daily commercial and municipal operations the way Christmas Eve and Christmas Day do. But the annual calendar-year transition alters normal life …

Planners in southwestern Michigan are trying to keep a passenger train operating between Chicago and Grand Rapids. The Herald-Palladium of St. Joseph reports that the Twin Cities Area Transportation Study …

The Harvard Africa Business Conference received 350 applications to their New Venture Competition. The demographic and industry breakdown is not what you might expect.

Never before has it been so easy to estimate your carbon output, reduce it and become carbon neutral. Social entrepreneurs have helped to make this possible, in part by providing affordable and easy ways to buy carbon of...

Dr. Michael Breus, otherwise known as, "The Sleep Doctor," consults with many top CEO's and entrepreneurs to help them to optimize their sleep and energy. For this article, he provided a number of his top recommendations...

The investment story lines for 2019 will be dominated by indicators pointing to a possible recession and the end of the long bull market in stocks.        

Dear Liz: I sold my home two years ago and still have not done anything with my gain of $200,000. It's in a one-year certificate of deposit so at least it's earning something while I try to figure out what to do with it....

From space adventure and medical breakthroughs, to seamless travel and sustainable food sources, 2019 promises to be an exciting year for these five companies determined to make an impact on the world.

China is willing to work with the United States to implement the consensus reached during talks between the two countries' leaders in Argentina, the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

President Donald Trump was firing Twitter barbs at Democrats this weekend as talks to end a weeklong partial government shutdown remained at a stalemate. Trump was cooped up in the …

For years, Newtown resident Anthony Tucker has been paying between $60-90 a month for water he doesn't feel is safe to drink. To illustrate why, he reaches under his kitchen …

JP Yim / Getty Bill Gates released his annual "What I learned at work this year" letter, which reflects on the issues of the past year and predicts what may happen in the upcoming 12 months. In his 2018 edition, the Micr...

Instagram/Jermaine Massey An Oregon hotel announced Saturday it fired two employees who called the police on a black guest, after spotting him in the lobby and demanding to know his room number. Jermaine Massey said that...

A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security told Reuters they are investigating the attack