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If you scatter more than a thousand blue whales over the length of four football fields, you have Allure of the Seas, the world's largest luxury cruise ship. Measuring approximately 1,200 feet long and weighing 223,000 t...

Momir Bojic, 71, crafted a completely wooden Volkswagen Beetle from over 50,000 pieces of hand-carved oak.  Every external detail of the fully-functioning automobile is made out of wood, including the tire spokes: It's ...

As some airlines gut their frequent flyer programs, increase fees and cram more seats into coach, others are pushing the boundaries of flying luxury with of over-the-top first class suites. Airlines are betting that thes...

A new company will sell licensed smartphones that allow users unlimited free music downloads, hiding the price of the music in that of the phone.

The Food and Drug Administration has just approved a prosthetic limb that may be one of the most realistic, human-like implementations to date. The prosthetic arm, which was created by Segway inventor Dean Kamen, could b...

Sharp Corp, Nissan Motor Co and Hitachi Ltd are scheduled to report earnings today

The cost of building Brasilia's World Cup stadium has nearly tripled to $900 million in public funds, largely due to allegedly fraudulent billing, government auditors say. The spike in costs has made it the world's secon...

BurgerFuel hopes a partnership with Subway restaurants and an emphasis on quality and car culture can lure American diners in a competitive industry.

Uni-President China, the Hong Kong-listed, mainland business arm of Taiwan food giant Uni-President Enterprises, plans to raise HK$3.3 billion, or $426 million, in a rights issue, the company said in an announcement on S...

Most entrepreneurs believe they are "different," but they can't quite understand how. They usually explain it by insisting that they are driven to follow their passion, need to be their own boss, want to get rich quick, ...

In the fevered atmosphere that a high-stakes financing can create, the CEO, investors, and non-investor board members need to keep a long term perspective and balance risk and ambition as they signal expectations and neg...

A quartet of Silicon Valley's biggest tech companies agreed last month to settle an anti-poaching case -- but one of the main plantiffs has asked the judge to reject what he calls a "grossly inadequate" sum.

Alcohol consumption varies widely across the globe, and the U.S. stacks up pretty well compared to some other countries. As the map below from the World Health Organization shows, Russians and their neighbors drink more...

Some companies run from California's strict regulatory standards on air pollution and emissions. Not Clean Diesel Technologies Inc., where the executives can't imagine being anywhere else. CDTi manufactures and distribut...

As per a 'Bloomberg' survey, 40% of respondents say global economy is improving, 43% say it's stable, and 12% say it's deteriorating

DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) -- Ninety percent of voters in a key industrial region in eastern Ukraine came out in favor of sovereignty Sunday, pro-Russian insurgents said in announcing preliminary results of a twin referendum ...

(Reuters) - Comcast Corp is offering at least two Asian cellular operators access to its WiFi hot spots in the United States, in trial partnerships that illustrate the cable company's ambitions to compete with U.S. wirel...

Cloud computing may have been designed and initiated by tech professionals, but it's something in which everyone should be involved. It doesn't matter if you're in accounting or market research or field service -- having...

The head of the Federal Communications Commission is revising proposed rules for regulating broadband Internet, including offering assurances that the agency won't allow companies to segregate Web traffic into fast and s...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Lee Kun-hee remained hospitalized in stable condition Monday after being treated for a heart attack, company officials said. Lee, 72, was rushed to a hospital n...

Shares in TCC International, a Hong Kong- listed subsidiary of Taiwan Cement of Taipei, plunged 21.4% last Friday after a key shareholder said it wouldn’t support an offer to privatize TCC at HK$3.90 per share.

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