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Markets are starting to come to life in 2014. For the first couple of days, things were in the doldrums, and looking like the exact opposite of 2013. But that's changed in the last 24 hours or so. The Dow registered a tr...

These days I feel like diving into the trenches to avoid the centenary of World War I -- and all the rehashing of its causes and consequences. Take a quick detour to other events of 100 years ago -- 1914 was an astonishi...

Fitness trackers have enjoyed too long in the sun, considering how little most of them actually do. The push now is to get them to offer more to consumers who?ve until now been satisfied to record how many miles they?ve ...

A photo of a giant Amazon shipping box went viral Monday, but its contents remained a mystery. So what was inside? And was it even a real Amazon box? Amazon confirmed to tech news site Re/Code that it was real, and there...

The Seattle Seahawks are well-known for their loud, passionate fanbase and maybe the most famous of those fans is Tim Froemke, better known as "Seahulk." Froemke, a former bodybuilder, has his body painted like The Incre...

As we watch wireless companies consolidate, the question of whether Telephone & Data Systems will sell has often emerged.

Promoting an erotic film festival is an extremely difficult task. After all, it's not like you can just paper the town with posters of all the great movies you'll be showing. Instead, the Polish movie theater Kino Praha ...

Each year, jet setters and socialites flock to Monaco to watch the Grand Prix and soak up the Mediterranean sun.  If plans for a new superyacht called "The Streets of Monaco" are brought to fruition, that experience cou...

Walking through the thousands of booths at Las Vegas’ CES conference, you’re bombarded with a rainbow assortment of silicon smartphone cases, ergonomically-optimized plastic keyboards, and all sorts of shiny metal ga...

School lunches can be so boring. But David Laferriere, a father of two from Massachusetts, keeps things entertaining by drawing a picture on his sons' sandwich bags almost every morning after he makes their lunch.  LaFe...

Don't bogart the wasabi! Colorado's Hapa Sushi has come up with a food-and-weed pairing menu. It's part of the chain's ad campaign to celebrate Colorado's legalization of recreational marijuana. Imagine the win-win for H...

In a Roth conversion, you take funds out of a traditional pre-tax individual retirement account, pay the federal, state and local income taxes owed and deposit the funds in a Roth IRA, where your savings grow tax free. I...

Butter's growing popularity — consumption has risen 25% in the last decade — coincides with more understanding about the health hazards of its processed counterparts.For generations, butter got a bad rap.     

With U.S. Treasury yields around 3%, income-producing stocks are attractive. Here's where some money managers are finding opportunities.

Imagine raising $17 million in one day.

The late Pao Yue-kong took great care in building his empire-- and in dividing it among his four daughters.

The shadow of Bernie Madoff continues to hang over Wall Street.

Virtually everyone else who has ever studied the matter agrees that taxing business inputs is unwise.

Howard Mavity of Fisher & Phillips, a national labor and employment law firm representing employers, argues that an OSHA proposal to require employers to electronically submit data and to make that data available to the ...

What does the year ahead hold for taxes and Washington? Tax reform isn't going to happen but tax extenders will.

No matter what or who you're involved in, it's tough to keep the fires of passion burning. Why do you think one out of every two marriages ends in divorce?

This article is by Denise Lee Yohn, a brand-building expert, speaker and writer. She is the author of What Great Brands Do:  The Seven Brand-Building Principles that Separate the Best from the Rest (Jossey-Bass, January...