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Here's the problem: You've got a new product. You want to sell it on Amazon. Commenters then ruthlessly lampoon your company by posting sarcastic reviews underneath it. The reviews become a bigger draw than your product....

Brooklyn-based art studio Red Paper Heart recently hosted the ultimate pool party. That's because UrbanDaddy challenged the art studio to create an epic, interactive experience in water. "Our desire was to create animati...

At least 245 people died on Sunday when a fire tore through a nightclub packed with university students in the southern Brazilian city of Santa Maria, police said. The death toll from the inferno stood initially at 70 bu...

Over on question and answer site Quora, a former Facebook director of engineering has answered the question, "What have been Facebook's greatest technical accomplishments?" If you're in IT, investing in it, or consuming ...

The odds of another Bernie Madoff-style financial fraud have been greatly reduced during the past four years, Wall Street's retiring top cop says.

ROME/MILAN

There is good news and bad news for those who tried their luck with January 26 Powerball lottery tickets. The bad news is that no...

(Reuters) - General Motors Co will add a third production shift at a complex in Brazil, a move it expects will create 2,630 factory and supplier jobs, the company said Sunday in a statement on its website.

We don't have to tell you how challenging it can be for women in the workplace. From negotiating equal pay to navigating stereotypes, study after study shows how women often struggle to feel fully satisfied on the job. B...

An anonymous commodities trader at Glencore did a Reddit Ask Me Anything where he answered a bunch of questions about what it's like to work at a big commodities trading shop (via Izabella Kaminska). It's impossible to v...

Democratic and Republican lawmakers this week plan to introduce an overhaul of immigration laws to pave the way to citizenship for the 11 million illegal immigrants now in the country.

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On Sunday morning, Rep. Paul Ryan reiterated a message that House Republicans have been trying to push since the fiscal cliff deal happened: The GOP is unafraid to let the sequester take effect. "I think the sequester is...

Vine, the new app from Twitter that lets you edit and share six-second videos, already has a number of users posting graphic sexual content. Vine lets you explore video categories with a hashtag, and a few quick searches...

Republican House Budget Chair Paul Ryan has predicted a grim outcome for the next fiscal cliff battle. "We think these sequesters will happen because the Democrats have opposed our efforts to replace those cuts with othe...

WASHINGTON

It is no surprise that George Osborne is continuing with an economic strategy that is so obviously failing in terms of its publicly declared objectives. The reason, as you say (Editorial, 26 January), has been clear from...

DAVOS, Switzerland

The San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens will meet in New Orleans and one team will become the 47th NFL Champion of the Super Bowl era. During that game, somebody will do something that will be captured by a photogra...

NEW YORK -- It sounds, at first, like a bold, next-generation solution: personalizing guns with technology that keeps them from firing if they ever get...

A popular urban legend purports that Twinkies never rot. But one eBay user supposedly has evidence to refute this claim. Seller high_order1 is auctioning off...

Guest Post Genomics data is about to change the way doctors discover and treat disease -- but there are some significant obstacles standing in the way.