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Less is more -- it works in fashion, cooking, and at the workplace?  Indeed, says Bill Powers, a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute who decided to chop his work-week by more than half and opted for a small New ...

GUEST: Marketers love metrics. Any acronym that starts with a capital C makes a marketer’s ears perk up — CPA, CPL, CPC, CPM, CTR. But while these metrics make perfect sense to marketers, there's a common problem in ...

A driver for Google's same day delivery service filed a proposed class action lawsuit against the company on Friday, alleging it improperly classified her as an independent contractor and owes expenses.

This is one in a series of interviews where tastemakers share the secret addresses of their cities. In this interview, Sidra Forman, a florist, chef and gardener and a native Washingtonian, talks about her love of the ci...

Since my last post “Distribution is 80% of your problem” I have had the opportunity to speak in depth with several terrific startup founders about some of the incredible things they are doing. And why it’s not go...

GUEST: As digital commerce has evolved over the past decade to penetrate nearly every element of our lives, one category has largely been left in the dust: furniture. But in the past 12 months disruption has accelerated ...

As the days get shorter and the temperature starts dropping, those days of sunshine seem far away. But here are a few stunning luxury hotels where you can relive summer at lower rates.

A new safety rule that prohibits air travelers and crew members from carrying e-cigarettes and other battery-powered portable electronic smoking devices in their checked baggage was announced earlier this week. "We know ...

Vodafone U.K. said on Saturday hackers had accessed the accounts of 1,827 of its customers this week...

Ersatz Labs, a startup specializing in a trendy type of artificial intelligence called deep learning, has suspended development of its cloud service and application programming interface (API). The startup has dropped it...

Insights on scale from Rocket Internet's Romain Voog.

EcoMedia, a division of CBS, helps divert some of the money big brands spend on advertising to support nonprofits.

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Looking for a few genuine thrills on Halloween? In a city that's nearly 2000 years old, there's more than a few treacherous tales and ghastly apparitions reported to be haunting various pubs, castles and inns to give yo...

In a start-up world obsessed with tech and disruption and unicorns, a company with steady growth and a no-nonsense product seems rare. And not much is less flashy than glue.

We’ve seen a lot of press on YouTube Red in the online media (Forbes.com is no exception) and the governing roundup seems to be one of concern: how, exactly, will YouTube get people to pay for something previously cons...

Kellie K bras may be the first strapless bras that actually work.

Successful people get to where they are in their careers because they make the hard become the easy. The most important things for all of us to realize is that our destiny is in our hands--it's not controlled by the univ...

In a recent division opinion, the Tax Court considered whether a settlement agreement that required shares be transferred to trusts for the benefit of the transferor’s children were not taxable gifts because they were ...

It remains to be seen whether Sumner Redstone will be hit with the three-quarter million in gift tax and $15.5 million in interest that his brother's estate won on in Tax Court.

Gaming’s biggest battle of year is here: holiday season. This is when Sony and Microsoft bring out the big guns and try to tell as many consoles as possible. However, Microsoft is coming out especially aggressive this ...

GUEST: On October 6, the EU ruled that the 15-year-old Safe Harbor Agreement between the U.S. and Europe is invalid. The agreement had allowed American companies to move the data of European citizens freely to the U.S. u...