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Actress Jena Malone plays the angry, axe-wielding, elevator-stripping Johanna Mason from District 7 in "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire." But in order to get the role, the self-proclaimed "happy-go-lucky" 29-year-old ...

Click for sound.   The U.S. national debt is now over 17 trillion dollars. The animation above puts into perspective how truly inconceivable 1 trillion dollars is.  Produced by Justin Gmoser; Graphics by Mike Nudelman ...

Advisors and mentors are a critical asset to any entrepreneur looking to start or accelerate their entrepreneurial journey. In my most recent post, I talked about the five best types of mentors for an entrepreneur. But j...

Only one more day until we gorge ourselves with turkey! Here's some news to tide you over. The NSA spied on the porn-watching habits of six Muslim "radicalizers"  so it could potentially undermine their credibility, acc...

The intro to the blog "Tab Closed; Didn't Read" cuts straight to the point: "If you're going to insist on obscuring your content with some stupid social sh--, a promo for your sh---y app or a full-page newsletter signup ...

Litecoin, the digital currency otherwise known as, "the silver to Bitcoin's gold," has surpassed $25 in value, reaching as much as $28.50. It's up 400% in the past week. We profiled Litecoin earlier this week. Its creato...

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits dropped 10,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 316,000, a sign that workers are in less danger of being laid off.

Microsoft appears to be counting heavily on Xbox Live subscriptions and game purchases to buoy its gaming-related revenues. A teardown of the just-released Xbox One reveals that the console costs $471 to make, earning th...

From leisure to learning, relaxing to reinvention, busy professionals find time to fit reading into their lives and say they’re better for it.

Click for sound.   David Eun, EVP and head of the Open Innovation Center at Samsung Electronics, shares his visions about what smart TVs are going to look like in the future. Produced by Kamelia Angelova, Alana Kakoyian...

Though eCommerce has made headway in the food industry, it's hard to imagine that technology will ever find a replacement for those mobile dining oases--food trucks. Here are 25 ones to look out for as you travel the U.S...

Prince William, Taylor Swift, and Jon Bon Jovi are three people we wouldn't necessarily put in a room together, but the musicians and the royal united last night at a gala for the Centre point Charity. Swift and Prince ...

The University of Michigan Consumer Confidence measure is out, and it crushed expectations. Consumer confidence jumped to 75.1 in November, besting expectations for 73.1 The figure was up from the preliminary reading of...

Gold futures rise on Wednesday, buoyed by weakness in the U.S. dollar and signs of rising demand for the precious metal in China.

Less than 1% of your customer behavior data is truly useful. Here's how to separate it from the noise.

A leading international economic body predicts that Greece's economy will shrink further next year and the government might need more financial help.

(WASHINGTON) -- Orders for U.S. long-lasting factory goods fell last month as businesses spent less on machinery, computers and most other items. The decline suggests companies may have been reluctant to invest during th...

Lucien oozed his Maine farm boy origins.

Asia, and China in particular, has been touted as the driver pulling the crisis-infested developed world away from the brink of a global financial cliff. But from now on, the opposite could be true.

The actor Alec Baldwin has blamed "the fundamentalist wing of gay advocacy" for the decision by MSNBC, the US cable news channel, to cancel his weekly show after he used offensive language to a photographer. Baldwin, who...

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