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(Reuters) – The shift to electric vehicles will cost jobs at German automotive supplier Continental, its chief executive told a newspaper, but he said many of those jobs would be offset by new positions related to elec...

Before you set goals for the coming year, you need to look back at what you accomplished last year.

The cobblestones and incredible food of Florence, Italy has as much to say about how to spend 2017 as any aspirational guide to the New Year. Slowing the pace and marking time are my chief exports and takeaway treasures ...

Source: graphicstock.com Over the years, as I've talked with many a budding entrepreneur about to start their business, it continues to amaze me how many haven't conducted anywhere close to a prudent amount of research o...

GUEST: 2016 taught us a lot about drones and their potential to deliver benefits for consumers, communities, and businesses alike. Google and Chipotle tested burrito delivery on the campus of Virginia Tech, while cities ...

(c) iStock Photo As the CEO of the consulting and training firm, Female Factor, and author of Why She Buys, I've spent more than a decade studying women's impact on the consumer marketplace. At this time of year, people ...

Egyptian Billionaire Naguib Sawiris talks about how his father taught him honesty.

If you've ever had a collectible item, say a Mickey Mantle baseball card, you knew it was something of value. But what if you didn't and it ended up in a box of cards, marbles and die cast cars at Goodwill?

Painting custom signs on pallets during at-home parties is the next generation of paint 'n' sip (Photo credit: Pamela Dimichele). You've probably heard of "paint 'n' sip" businesses, where groups of friends or colleagues...

2016 was "Year Zero" for the current wave of consumerization of virtual reality and augmented reality, devices are finally shipping, consumers are buying, and applications are earning. Consider what “Year Zero” was f...

It's easy to get sort of jaded about New Year's resolutions, but we all believe that with some hard work, we can become a better person, and a new year tends to bring that out in people. Just about everyone wants to get ...

Are you ready to make the coming year your most successful yet? These are the four topics all great leaders should be talking about in 2017 to stay on top.

(Reuters) — Tesla Motors Inc was sued on Friday by a Model X owner who said his electric SUV suddenly accelerated while being parked, causing it to crash through the garage into owner’s living room, injuring the driv...

I previously wrote about the IRS making certain 831(b) captives a listed transaction in my article A Detailed Analysis of IRS Notice 2016-66 re 831(b) Captives. Notice 2016-66 set a compliance date of January 30, 2017, f...

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates warned on Friday that the world was vulnerable to a deadly epidemic of an illness like flu, with the recent Ebola and Zika outbreaks underlining weaknesses in global efforts to tackl...

A Microsoft employee today confirmed that the company has added support for shared calendars, a long requested feature, in its Outlook app for iOS. The feature is also available on Outlook for Android, as well as Microso...

A lot of you are having fantastical and monstrous holidays. Pokémon Sun and Moon for the 3DS and Final Fantasy XV for PlayStation 4 were Amazon’s best-selling games of the holiday, according to the online retailer. Th...

GUEST: Hey Siri, is voice search really that big of a deal? Looking.... Searching the web for “is voice search really that big of a deal?” Tech pundits and marketing gurus are already lauding voice search as the most...

I’m about to head off to CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas next week. But before I did, I thought I would try out one of the funny products from CES 2016. The Clever Pet billed itself as a video game conso...

GUEST: Ben Fox Rubin had a great post in CNET’s CES blog that discussed whether voice assistants were equipped to provide health and emotional support. He starts out by citing a JAMA study from early 2016 that found vo...