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Gartner's list of the top tech trends of next year.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The University at Buffalo on Monday closed its seven-month-old shale gas research institute, which was under investigation by the State University...

What killed the Monitor Group, the consulting firm co-founded by the legendary business guru, Michael Porter? In November 2012, Monitor was unable to pay its bills and was forced to file for bankruptcy protection. Why di...

One summer’s day 28 years ago, Alain Ducasse—the man dubbed the “godfather” of French cuisine—was rescued half-paralysed from a mountainside in the Alps, sole survivor of a light plane cr...

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Former managers at British tech firm deny claims and accuse HP of destroying a 'world leader' Hewlett-Packard has revealed it has taken an $8.8bn (£5.5bn) writedown after "serious accounting improprieties" were discov...

The prospect of a Twinkie-free future has provoked longing for a mythologized American past, as if artificially sweetened cream and dyed yellow cake were the...

The markets held onto gains earlier in the day but reversed course after investors were discouraged by remarks from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke regarding the fiscal cliff.

Last month we reported on a new study that showed that the more women executives a startup has, the more likely it is to succeed.

Editor's Note: Here is a response by Dr. Robert Schneider to my story last week about his controversial paper on Transcendental Meditation that appeared in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes. I will res...

Chances are super high that Randi Zuckerberg won?t be calling and that no one will turn the life and times of Ruckus Wireless Inc. into a Silicon Valley reality TV show.

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Ulwe, a village of dusty, uneven streets on the outskirts of Mumbai, lacks basic amenities like water supply and electricity, but a two-bedroom, 1,000 sq ft house costs about 5 million rupees ($91,000)...

Companies may choose to push up prices to reflect smaller number of tariffs under government reforms Consumers will still have more than 50 energy tariffs to choose from, offered by major suppliers alone, and a plethora ...

With its new 3D photoboth MakerBot's bringing its 3D printing revolution to your face.

Of all the biographers competing to be Warren Buffett's Boswell, Carol Loomis, dean of writers at Fortune magazine, would seem to be the best equipped. For more than 40 years, she has been Buffett's personal friend and s...

I can't imagine that too many families will be engaging older relatives with the following question over turkey and dressing:

Three millionaires who were featured in last year’s list of the 10 African millionaires to watch made it onto Forbes' new list of Africa's 40 Richest: Naushad Merali of Kenya, Isabel Dos Santos of Angola and Said ...

The housing recovery can't gather steam until tight-fisted banks loosen tough lending standards put in place after the worst housing crisis since the Great Depression.

Stocks cut their losses to finish flat in choppy trading Tuesday, but Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's negative comments on the looming "fiscal cliff" put a damper on gains.

In July 2008 Matthew Martoma spoke to the owner of the affiliated hedge funds where he worked and recommended that they should dump securities of Elan and Wyeth before the latest drug trial results of an Alzheimer?s drug...

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