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The gig: Judith and Steve Marosvolgyi are the founders of Century Books, a used bookstore on Green Street in Pasadena. Judith and Steve were voracious readers while growing up in their native Hungary. After defecting to ...

Swiss voters will decide in a referendum on Sunday on whether to introduce what would be the highest minimum wage in the world.

The government will need to quickly clear stalled infra projects, which will have a multiplier effect on other sectors and help boost bank credit growth

Are you able to keep your emotions in check when negotiating that big deal? It can be a struggle not to let natural human sensations negatively impact what you say or how you react. The best way to manage, and harness, y...

Lately, various housing-market metrics such as existing-home sales, new-home sales, and mortgage applications have all been flagging. We also recently learned that the U.S. homeownership rate was at a 19-year low, and so...

Launched in 2008 by Stanford graduates Maxim Faldin and Kamil Kurmakaev, Wikimart had the initial ambition of creating a Russian analog of eBay. Heavily funded by major U.S. investment funds, the startup has now become a...

Combined wealth of Britain's 1,000 richest people has risen 15.4% on last year's total, to £518.975bn

Fundamentally, Bush believes that the marketplace, for lack of a better word, is good. "The marketplace works," he explains. "It rewards innovators, kills laggards, and provides consumers with better value and more choic...

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Among the many questions surrounding the Federal Reserve’s programme of quantitative easing (QE) is what will happen to the vast stockpile of bonds it has accumulated in its efforts to lower interest rates. Officials a...

Samsung is ready to take over Terminal 5 at London's Heathrow Airport. The move, for two weeks, renames the terminal "Terminal Samsung Galaxy S5."

An electric guitar played by George Harrison on British television before the Beatles' U.S. "invasion" fetched $657,000 at auction on Saturday in New York, topping pre-sale estimates, Julien's Auctions said.

The Oracle of Omaha stayed true to his investing philosophy last quarter despite a volatile market.

The governor of the Bank of England gives his strongest warning yet about the dangers to Britain's economy posed by the booming housing market.

A former Florida governor who is seeking re-election said Saturday he was in favor of lifting a US embargo on Cuba. Washington has had an economic embargo clamped on the communist-run Caribbean country since 1962, and th...

Fund intended to open doors to more organisations, with the Midcounties' donations currently limited to the Co-op party

AT&T agreed today to acquire satellite television provider DirecTV for about $48.5 billion. The acquisition, announced via a press release, will close only if approved by regulators. Both companies approved the transacti...

Aardman Animations, the animation company behind Wallace and Gromit, is trying to get kids into coding.

Life360 founder Chris Hulls has faced his share of patent shakedowns before — at least three or four, by his count. But when the latest patent holder, AGIS, sent his company a notice alleging that Life360 was infringin...

The new owner of Atari discusses the direction of the classic video game brand.

When Marco Polo travelled to Hangzhou, China 700 years ago, never had he thought he’d be creating a dream job of social media ambassador in 21st century China.

Of Americans who know enough about net neutrality to have an opinion, a slim majority support the regulation. Most don't know enough to offer an opinion (57%), but knowledgeable respondents favor net neutrality 23% to 19...