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The Energy Department on Friday conditionally approved a Texas company's proposal to export liquefied natural gas, only the second such project allowed to move forward amid a production boom that...

A senior female member of Imran Khan's Pakistan's Movement for Justice party (PTI) was shot dead outside her home in Karachi on Saturday. Reports suggested that Zahra Shahid Hussain, who was senior vice-president of the ...

The Energy Department gave a terminal near Freeport, Tex., permission Friday to ship liquefied natural gas to Japan, providing a new outlet for rising U.S. production of shale gas despite qualms of environmentalists and ...

For all the talk of how it's a waste to study American Literature or other majors with limited job prospects, even the Chairman of the Federal Reserve acknowledges a value to cultural pursuits. Ben Bernanke ended his com...

WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says pessimists forecasting that the economy will not reap sizable benefits from the computer revolution are likely to...

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Anger over the financial affairs of multinationals such as Google, Amazon and Starbucks is gathering momentum in Westminster. Now the UK is poised to lead the debate about international tax reform at next month's G8 summ...

WICHITA, Kansas

Education is a notoriously slow adopter of technology, but Google Apps is growing quickly, if not virally, doubling over the last two years.

Google's I/O developer conference is over, and we've learned quite a bit.

Tumblr, which famously hates advertising and only started trying to make money after five years in existence, is in a bit of a pickle, as its $125 million in funding is running out, giving the service only a few-month wi...

Attending tradeshows is more than just cruising the aisles and looking and exhibitor booths. Understanding the inherent mechanics of trade shows, executing a well-defined game plan, and measuring the results in your prof...

I suggested in my first article that our education system is not broken but has simply become obsolete. It?s doing exactly what it was designed to do but unfortunately, our needs have changed. We can?t just make incremen...

The biggest web company on the planet just added support for the most widely-used programming language on the planet. And in that support is a massive implied compliment to PHP -- the first non-Google programming languag...

Communication is important in any business and these investors spoke loud and clear giving millions to two companies.

Bang With Friends, the app that connects you with Facebook friends looking to hook up, was removed from the Apple app store only a week after it made its debut.

There have been reports that Yahoo's board will meet tomorrow to decide whether or not to make a $1.1 billion cash offer to buy Tumblr. There have been other reports that Facebook may swoop in with its own offer. After h...

Google executive chairman says company accounts comply with international law Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has defended his company's financial affairs after a Commons committee branded the internet giant devio...

Pizza has reached a new pinnacle. It's available in more places, and in weirder and more wonderful varieties, than ever before. And we're scarfing it down: The research firm Technomic estimates that Americans eat 350 sli...

It might not be uncommon for workers to fake a sick day just to skip work, but some apparently feel the need to get a...

Americans between the ages of 61 and 70 are withdrawing money from their IRAs in amounts that are larger, both in absolute dollar amounts and as a percentage of their IRA account balance, than those taken by older househ...

CNBC Imagine having a drink with dinner at a restaurant only to be pulled over on the way home and slapped with a DUI. That...