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Samsung is the leading smart TV vendor worldwide, accounting for 26.4% of global smart TV shipments in the fourth quarter, according to Strategy Analytics data. Samsung maintained its top spot from the previous year, gr...

Hubertus von Hohenlohe, the 55-year-old skier from Mexico is the most interesting man at the Olympics. Aside from going to six Olympics for Mexico, von Hohenlohe is a German prince, a pop-star, and a professional photogr...

Lonely Planet has published a new book, "Beautiful World," an image collection of the most stunning places on Earth.  The book showcases 200 photos taken by travelers everywhere from Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah t...

A screenshot of a Russian figure skating judge hugging Olympic gold medalist Adelina Sotnikova is being passed around as evidence that the event was fixed. The judge, Alla Shekhovtseva, is married to Valentin Piseev, w...

Perk Hixon, a powerful New York investment banker, on Friday become the latest Wall Street high-flyer to crash into Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara's sprawling insider-trading probe. The 55-year-old ex-Evercore...

Two big secret sharing apps have recently hit the mainstream, and it's kind of creating a divide in the tech community.  At their core, both apps are all about sharing secrets. Cool, but what's the difference?  With W...

An unidentified Chinese man in his thirties or forties stole an alligator coat valued at approximately $128,000 from a Hong Kong Burberry store by putting it on and just walking out the front door on Wednesday, authori...

We recently posted Reddit user Alexandr Trubetskoy's map showing that half of all U.S. GDP comes from just 23 metropolitan areas. Trubetskoy went a step further and broke all American economic activity down into quartile...

Marketers need to start taking publishing seriously. It's not a gimmick, but a craft and one that takes work to master.

On Earth, something is always burning. Occasionally, large wildfires send vast plumes of smoke streaming into the atmosphere, but most fires are much less dramatic when viewed from space, appearing in images as small blo...

Britain will never have a coherent energy policy while the market is led by companies that stint on research and development Nobody foresaw the perfect storm now hitting the world's energy markets. There is the fracking ...

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Last weekend I got an iPhone 5S, upgrading from an iPhone 5. While most people scoff at Apple doing "S" upgrades, I have to say I am really impressed at everything Apple packed into the phone.  In one year, Apple made b...

The business plan is a map which every SME needs to navigate their way to success. Here are top tips from the experts on getting it right Whether you're a startup or an established company, a carefully crafted business p...

Sake is among the soft goods that the government is promoting to help improve the country's exports.     

Industry groups and Republican-led states are asking justices to block what they call a 'brazen power grab' by the president's environmental regulators.WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's drive to regulate greenhou...

A senior investment banker is poised to become one of the top female executives in the bank's history, Sky News understands.

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David Alves is one of the main brains behind Facebook's Hacker Cup, one of the most anticipated gigs for young coders looking to make a name for themselves.     

US authorities say bidis contain levels of nicotine, tar and carbon monoxide several times greater than normal cigarettes

By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK

The United Automobile Workers has asserted that Tennessee lawmakers interfered with a unionization vote at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn.