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The online auction site's quarterly results narrowly beat Wall Street's expectations.

After a yearlong, multi-million-dollar renovation, the red velvet ropes will once again hold back the lines outside famed New York City nightclub Marquee. The West Chelsea hotspot is scheduled to open to the public Frida...

After launching voice calls for Canadian iPhone users earlier this month, Facebook today began rolling out the feature for those in the U.S.

There's a fair bit to digest in President Obama's new proposals for reducing gun violence. They include everything from an assault-weapons ban to more mental-health funding for schools, as well as 23 different executive ...

Japanese government spokesman Yoshihide Suga confirms the kidnap of workers at an oil field in Algeria

A government-funded study by the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Italy reveals the country's mafia makes less money than widely believed.

Movie scriptwriters, rejoice! Germany's central bank will relocate 54,000 solid gold bars, worth about $36 billion, from deep underneath the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Banque de France in Paris to the safe ...

For the most part, the war going on in Mali surprised everyone involved. Now it's gotten so bad that France, the U.S., and Canada are conducting military operations in an attempt to push Islamist fighters out. Lesser kno...

Southwest is one of the most admired companies in the country, respected in an industry that's better known for delayed flights and bad customer service than a great corporate culture. Not to mention the fact that it's r...

A Columbia, S.C., Mexican restaurant known as Taco Cid is seeing a boom in sales of its "How To Catch An Illegal Immigrant" T-shirt following...

This story originally appeared on Fast Company. 1. The Birth Of Silicon Valley Most of the modern technology that we hold dear today--from laptops...

I have been the only women on several panels; perhaps even felt like the token one. I don't know whether a pledge/boycott approach to drive more women onto panels is the right thing to do, but it does draw attention to a...

Who would I back to be the first to really win a public health debate using the personal responsibility argument? Coke is it.

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama, the best fundraiser in American political history, will be publicly inaugurated Monday with a flurry of balls, concerts, and other...

(WASHINGTON) -- Holiday shopping, strong auto sales and a recovering housing market helped boost the U.S. economy from the middle of November through early January, according to a Federal Reserve survey released Wednesda...

Call it BlackBerry Town -- even if the name isn't official.Research In Motion is taking extra steps to ensure its hometown of Waterloo, Ont. is...

"We paid too much. No question about it," CEO Meg Whitman said about HP's $11 billion acquisition for Autonomy that has turned into a giant mess, complete with an investigation by the Department of Justice. But the fault...

Walmart pledged earlier this week to buy more American-made goods, billing the move as a way to grow the U.S. economy. It's not just patriotism...

The median estimated net worth of incoming freshmen members of Congress is almost $1 million more than that of the typical American household, according to...

E-commerce giant edges out Wall Street's targets for the fourth quarter, though forecast stays conservative.

Lawrence Wright's long look at Scientology, "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief," is set for release tomorrow, and reviews, for the most part, have been overwhelmingly positive. But why? Wright's ...

Do you get paid a lot? I didn't have any real numbers in mind, but more money seemed better than less. This was my original thinking in a nutshell: seek higher-paid thought work.