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Google recently released a very cute ad for its mobile search app. It shows a mom rushing to get her family ready in the morning when she discovers it's "Dress Like a President Day" at her daughter's school. Her daughter...

President Barack Obama had a little fun today on Twitter despite spending most of his time talking about serious topics such as the looming fiscal cliff and middle-class tax cuts.

Whether referred to as electronic medical records, electronic health records, or electronic patient records, there is no doubting the tremendous potential benefits that the digitization of medical data holds for the heal...

So what will it be, Novocaine or Viagra?

Stocks traded mostly flat today over lingering worries over the fiscal cliff.

No major roads built since coalition came to power and many promises of cash not fulfilled Only a fraction of the billions of pounds of new capital spending that George Osborne announced in last year's autumn statement h...

Every analyst covering Big 5 Sporting Goods Corp. (BGFV - Analyst Report) has raised earnings estimates in the past month, following back-to-back quarters with positive surprises for this sporting goods retailer. Shares ...

Nearly five million people are now unemployed in Spain, with one person in four out of work.

Stocks finished slightly lower in a quiet session on Tuesday as the back-and-forth wrangling over the "fiscal cliff" gave investors little reason to act. 

Investors are tuning out of Pandora shares this afternoon following weaker-than-expected January quarter guidance this afternoon for the Internet radio company's fiscal third quarter ended October 31.

(Reuters) - Laurence Fink, chief executive of BlackRock, the world's biggest money manager, said on Tuesday he is not seeking a job in the administration of Barack Obama.

By not opposing the corporate cultivation of untrammeled greed among Americans, the churches have left the door open to the triumph of America's new religion -- not liberal secularism, but shopping.

Like it or not, McDonald's is a part of daily life for people across the globe. So much, in fact, that the Australian arm of...

Today, I was one of four people speaking on Forum with Michael Krasny, on KQED (Northern California Public Radio; listen here). The big news and the show's focus is that Aspergers (and the less-mentioned, PDD-NOS [per...

The purchase of AR New York was portrayed as a vote of confidence in luxury goods advertising, which Publicis expects to rise 7 percent worldwide this year.

On Tuesday, NAPFA officially embraced the CFP certification, a move that lauded by many in the advice industry. But critics say the CFP Board -- and it's designation -- are not rigorous enough.

Potential buyer is understood to be one of the joint owners of J Crew, the American clothing brand favoured by Michelle Obama Sir Philip Green is in talks to sell a 25% stake in his Topshop empire to the owners of Michel...

(Reuters) - American Airlines passenger service agents, the only major employee group at the carrier not unionized, began voting Tuesday on whether to be represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union.

Any manager remotely associated with the demise of the nation's largest bank might seem an unlikely choice to head the SEC. Yet Sallie Krawcheck, the woman who served as CFO of Citigroup in the run-up to the 2008 financi...

From EarthTechling's Pete Danko: The long, complex process of developing wind power off the U.S. Atlantic coast took another lurch forward late last week when...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge ended a two-year-old case against Barclays involving its dealings with sanctioned countries, closing one investigative chapter against the bank even as it faces multiple continuing ...

Jackie Ashley is right to be astonished at the size of the UK tax gap (Firms must pay their fair share of tax – this is war, 3 December) but is wrong to say "HMRC comes down heavily on the easy targets" and to sug...