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Auburn upset top-ranked Alabama when a last-second game-winning field goal attempt by Alabama came up short and Chris Davis returned the miss 109 yards for a game-winning touchdown. The return only came after a review pl...

NO ONE knows quite how many tunnels have been burrowed under London. Some of the city's many underground channels have been subject to the Official Secrets Act: the Kingsway tunnels were once used by a research arm of ...

When physicists switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), between three and six gigabytes of data spew out of it every second. That is, admittedly, an extreme example. But the flow of data from smaller sources than CERN...

I'm changing my mind about Bitcoin. I used to think it was a joke or at best a currency for clowns. Now, I no longer think that. Now, I don't know what its future is. Here, let me explain. I've gone through two phrases w...

The age-old saying is that "If Santa Claus should fail to call, bears may come to Broad and Wall."

Forbes: Handling holiday returns: An expert consultant on retail customer service reveals his one-word formula for success.

A look at some of the safest to the scariest sovereign bonds in the world as measured by their risk of default. The following country's bonds credit default swaps (CDS) are good gauges on the markets perception of risk. ...

Puerto Rico is way beyond the point of no return: it should default now

You're the VP of marketing. You're on your way to the top floor for a meeting with the executive team. You've got 20 minutes to sell them on the idea that, in order to compete and grow, the company must adopt a content m...

If there is a secret to entrepreneurial success, it is this: Entrepeneurs have a passion for discovering opportunities. Once they do, they act.

Buying local is far from a new idea, but it seems like we're at a tipping point when to comes to consumers' desire to do so. While Americans have clearly not sworn off of shopping at big retailers' brick and mortar and o...

A New York fashion label, Hatch Collection, which makes chic maternity wear designed to be worn before, during and after pregnancy, is reassessing its retail strategy. The company has the...

I had my first taste of Small Business Saturday two years ago, at a tea salon where I talked to the owner about  how she was taking advantage of the big sales day. This year the holidays found me once again in Columbus...

Being a publicly traded company can help a business recruit new employees and new customers, but it also makes a wealth of intelligence available to the competition.

Misleading email subject lines--Your account might have been hacked! Call us!--royally piss people off.

China's official manufacturing index for November slightly beat explanation. The PMI reading came in at 51.4, slightly ahead of the 51.1 that was expected. Last month was 51.4 as well. This year, as in past years, there ...

As the president and CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, Carl Guardino is probably in as good a position as any to consider what makes California's cradle of technology the success it is. In a presentation at the...

Judge Barbara Crabb ruled recently that the exclusion of cash housing allowances from taxable income by members of the clergy ("ministers of the gospel")is unconstitutional.  Among the reactions are cries from the clerg...

When it comes to mobile, games are still the killer app, as seen with breakout hits like Candy Crush Saga. But there are also many companies that have hit the wall. Just look at the travails of Zynga.

Geopolitical events are usually bullish for US Treasuries, as investors take refuge in US Government debt. But not when such events directly involve the US -- the world's second largest economy -- and its allies on the o...

As politicians debate the prospects for successful implementation of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, physicians are reportedly taking a cautious approach toward making business changes related to the law. Recent i...

Missing from the Security and Exchange Commission's list of regulatory priorities for the coming year is any plan to consider whether public companies should disclose their political spending, a setback for investor advo...