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"Snapchat dysmorphia" drove the plastic surgery business to record heights last year, as a growing number of Americans presented their doctors with filtered selfies and the instruction: "I want to look like this." Dr. Ma...

Boeing Co's commercial airplane division, facing its biggest crisis in years following deadly crashes of its flagship 737 MAX aircraft, has brought in a new vice president of engineering while dedicating another top exec...

Mike Trout is about to cash in. Big time. Trout and the Los Angeles Angels are close to finalizing a $432 million, 12-year contract that would shatter the record for …

IBM's Blockchain World Wire global payment network gives a boost to Bitcoin and XLM.

Four regulators need to be able to prove how they are protecting consumers, the spending watchdog says.

I just completed attending my 12th consecutive year at SXSW so I have the ability to assess the most recent SXSW in the context of its predecessors, a comprehensive way to evaluate the festival. This year seemed busier a...

Ford is repackaging a previously announced manufacturing investment in the Detroit area and now says it will spend $900 million and create 900 new jobs over the next four years. …

Scientists at Amaozn's Alexa division describe in new research a speech recognition approach that achieves a 20 percent reduction in word error rate.

Facebook has unveiled the Oculus Rift S, a new virtual reality headset for the PC that represents a major upgrade to its 2016 product, the Oculus Rift. Nate Mitchell, head of virtual reality products and cofounder of Fac...

Retailers have recognized that today's data sources, which include location information generated by consumers' smart devices as well as unstructured content from social networks, generate far too many data points ever t...

Casey Holladay broke his pelvis on the Mariner of the Seas' new trampoline attraction, Sky Pad, in February when the bungees attached to his harness snapped as he was in midair. Now he's suing Royal Caribbean. …

U.S. stocks edged lower in early trading on Wall Street on Wednesday ahead of the latest interest rate policy decision by the Federal Reserve. Healthcare and technology companies led the market lower as investors favored...

A federal judge has approved an agreement for Wells Fargo Securities to pay an $800,000 civil penalty to end a lawsuit by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over Rhode …

Forward-looking highlights from GeoQuant's high-frequency political risk intelligence platform.

This cartoon-like demonstration of alpha-capitalism will lead to stricter, safer and blander entertainment - and with each acquisition, the stakes get higher The mouse just ate the fox - and created a monster. Or rather,...

While the market has long periods of high returns, it has even more long period of low returns. Investors have seen entire decades delivering nothing but losses. Understanding this is key to selecting the best securities...

U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday after economic bellwether FedEx issued a downbeat profit outlook and as investors waited for more clarity on the Federal Reserve's interest rate forecasts for the rest of the year.

Walt Disney Co closed its $71 billion acquisition of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc's film and television assets on Wednesday, giving its upcoming streaming service a range of popular content as it takes on Netflix Inc.

Maybelline New York, MAC Cosmetics and Nykaa have embraced the 'sachet concept' to disrupt the cosmetics market.Smaller beauty product packs bring down prices, increase sales by reaching out to a wider customer base

A new study analyzed data on all children born in Norway from 1967 to 1978.

U.S. Rep. Dina Titus says she tells presidential candidates who want to be successful in Nevada that they must oppose a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain. The Democrat told …

Ojo Labs, an Austin-based company developing a real estate chatbot, has raised $45 million in financing, it has announced.