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BI Answers: Why does your foot lose feeling when it falls asleep? You've had your foot bent in an awkward position for a long time, and now it feels kind of numb, making it difficult to stand up. When this happens, we of...

Earlier this month, The Verge reported that "Unicode, an industry standard that regulates the presentation of text across different software platforms, updated to include 250 new emoji.  Everyone was very excited abou...

"To which of the following issues are you currently allocating wealth, time or expertise?" This was a question posed to over 4,500 of the world's high-net-worth individuals (HNWI) in a recent survey conducted by Capgemin...

The runaway success of French economist Thomas Piketty's book on income inequality seems to be bringing out the billionaires to opine on the same subject. Last week it was Goldman...

Banks and mortgage servicers that made phony Federal Housing Administration insurance claims to the feds could owe as much as $500 million in penalties and damages -- for New York...

It's the greatest migration of wealth ever to hit humanity: The unprecedented flood of money, four times the size of the US gross domestic product, that will be passed along...

Creating new ventures is something of an addiction for some entrepreneurs.

Pharmaceuticals company says tone of blog offered by marketer to graduate website 'trivialises role of clinical trials'

Most chief executive officers of Idaho's publicly traded companies saw their pay increased in 2013.

Executives from AT&T and DirecTV will speak to a House panel on their merger deal, and the Commerce Department will release its final economic growth figures for the wintry first quarter of 2014.

American Apparel CEO Dov Charney received an ultimatum at a company board meeting last Wednesday, according to sources cited by The Wall Street Journal: quit or be fired. "People familiar with the situation" told the WSJ...

Immigration policy is one of the mostly hotly debated issues in the country. From the perspective of the U.S. housing market, evidence shows that immigration is very positive. Immigrants create demand, they clear out und...

The board of French rail and energy group Alstom votes to accept a $17bn offer from General Electric, in what could be GE's biggest ever acquisition.

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Guest Post: With this week’s announcement that early-stage VC Greycroft has raised a $200 million growth fund, this type of fund has officially become a trend. But before we dig into the dynamics of it, let's pay homag...

Chief executive will face anger over the retailer's decline and his own inflated pay

Most chief executive officers of Idaho's publicly traded companies saw their pay increased in 2013.

Sting's children cannot expect to inherit his multimillion-pound wealth, the rock star has said, joining the ranks of the super-rich who have claimed that passing on their vast fortunes to their offspring could do more h...

The following tax-exempt fixed-income issues are scheduled for pricing this week.

The final obstacle to GE's $17 billion takeover of Alstom's power division was overcome Sunday after the French government agreed to terms with the French engineering company's main shareholder.

Beware the idea of a “death spiral,” heralded by some as the inevitable result for electric utilities of mass adoption of renewable energy sources — particularly solar. Under this scenario, advances in renewable en...

A lesser-told angle of the recent Vergara v. California ruling is its potential to improve Golden State public schools’ financial position and and market competitiveness relative to charter schools. Aside from the peda...