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Samsung mobile ad executive David Eun shares the three ways he changed his life after surviving the crash landing of the Asiana Airlines 777 at San Francisco airport this summer. Click for sound.   Produced by Kamelia A...

Dr. Hugh Herr's work developing robotic prosthetics is transforming the disability industry.  He shared a clip of one woman's reaction to his revolutionary product, BIOMs, at Ignition 2013. Click for sound. Produced by...

Instead of racking up debt while going to college, apprentices start earning money within their first year in the classroom. According to a recent report published by the office of Occupational Statistics and Employment ...

The Department of Justice delivered a heartfelt tribute late Friday to "Batkid" — a 5-year-old named Miles who is battling Leukemia, and got to fight crime in a transformed San Francisco thanks to the Make-A-Wish found...

Some women in college have turned to a new kind of job to pay for school: being a "sugar baby." It's safe to say many sugar babies aren't reporting this income to the Internal Revenue Service, making them part of what a ...

Buyer of Boca Raton mansion will get $500,000 Rolls-Royce Phantom as part of the deal.     

NEW YORK (AP) -- McDonald's is looking to give people a little more wiggle room to customize their orders, as they can at chains such as Chipotle, Five Guys and Subway. The world's biggest hamburger chain says it's testi...

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As you may have heard, Albert Rizzi, of Bellport, New York, and his seeing eye dog Doxology were kicked off a US Airways flight from Philadelphia to Long Island on November 13 when Rizzi was unable to, "shove his service...

San Francisco transit officials are calling for a return to the bargaining table, saying an expensive provision was "erroneously" included in a labor contract that settled a union dispute that…

(Reuters) - Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is joining private-equity firm Warburg Pincus, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

An Everett businessman has followed through on his threat to sue the Boston Redevelopment Authority over a no-bid contract awarding the Red Sox permanent rights to close part of Yawkey Way for gameday concession sales. J...

The move by China to open its local stock markets to foreign investment is triggering a new wave of ETFs.

Forbes: Apply Four Seasons Hotels' customer service/hospitality systems (explains consultant and keynote speaker) to your corporate culture and customer experience.

A captive insurance company is an insurance company that is owned as a subsidiary by the parent company. The captive typically exists to provide insurance only to other subsidiary businesses owned by a common parent. The...

The check in is on the way out. But apps that use mobile location data are only becoming more popular.  Providing a useful service that encourages data sharing is the key to a successful location-based strategy. It is a...

Entrepreneurship is vital to the economy. Yet, surprisingly few people can name even one successful entrepreneur.

Prenuptial agreements aren't just about protecting assets in case of a divorce anymore.

America is a great land and lures immigrants worldwide, yet record numbers of U.S. citizens and permanent residents are giving up their citizenship or residency. For all the immigrant arrivals there's an increasing tric...

Snapchat & the Path to the Personal - This post originally appeared on Quora by Mills Baker.

As stocks hit new records and small investors--finally--return to the market, some analysts and economists are getting worried. Here's what investors should do now.

With Snapchat turning down $3B, should Facebook put a knockout punch offer on the table -- say, $5B? This question was originally answered on Quora by Marc Bodnick.