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As the rest of the country held its breath for Ohio and the results of the electoral college on Tuesday night, a number of California billionaires eyed ballot initiatives that hit a little closer to home.

Wu Changjiang: A typical Chinese self-made billionaire

Sure, we loved lunch boxes and music boxes when we were kids. But new musical lunch boxes from a Portugese sandwich company have us scratching...

In other dividend news, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (APC) maintained its quarterly dividend of 9 cents per share. Allstate Corporation (ALL) maintained its quarterly dividend of 22 cents per share. Waste Management In...

Overseas stocks were mixed, with some investors applauding continuity.

Leading Women meets Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw who started drug company Biocon, valued at over $800 million, out of a garage.

Jamie Dimon is not going to like this one. Elizabeth Warren has been projected as the winner of her Massachusetts Senate race, beating incumbent Republican...

Bernie Marcus, co-founder of home improvement retailer Home Depot, says electing Romney would make business executives so happy that they'd essentially have no choice but...

The Nov. 22 issue has a secondary cover on the back page that carries the Rolling Stone nameplate but has cover lines entirely in Spanish.

Nike is a pioneer in endorsements, going as far as developing brands within its brand. The payoff has been huge, but the risk is high when hundreds of millions of dollars are invested in the reputation of fallible indivi...

Do you absolutely and utterly loathe orange skittles? Have you spent hours of your life sifting through bags of the colorful candy to find that...

Good jobs, where workers have collective bargaining rights, security and benefits that allow their families to enjoy a decent standard of living, are the cornerstone of building a strong economy. Yet Walmart's bottom lin...

Now that the election is over, the next phase of critically important work begins on these two fronts. On economic and fiscal policy, the closeness of the popular vote shows that Americans are really at a crossroads mome...

Police in Athens are target for petrol bombs thrown during a demonstration on the second day of the 48-hours general strike against new austerity measures

John Boehner,(R-Ohio), Speaker of the House, gave President Obama his first November Surprise before he was even finished celebrating his electoral college victory for another term in the White House.

This year's election already seems to have a name, and that's the Moneyball election. In short, people are saying that "call-it-by-the-gut" pundits like Joe Scarbough were shamed by the nerdy quant-jock-turned-celebri...

From Ryan Caldbeck (Disrupting Finance):  This week’s post is a Q&A with Coca-Cola’s internal venture group, VEB (Venturing & Emerging Brands).  As Disrupting Finance continues to explore issues of cr...

Stocks took a sharp nosedive in a post-election selloff Wednesday, with the Dow logging its biggest decline in nearly a year, prompted by concerns over the looming "fiscal cliff" and amid renewed worries over Europe's we...

Molson Coors said cost controls and its acquisition of StarBev this year helped its profit.

I find it fascinating how behavioral biases can lead investors astray again and again. I’ll give you a hypothetical, currently relevant example. Let’s say Judy has a well thought out, balanced global portfo...

America, Meet Azerbaijan

Wall Street crusader Elizabeth Warren's victory in the U.S. Senate race doesn't bode well for Wall Street.