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John van Kueffler, the former chairman of Provident Financial, is raising £250m to float a new alternative consumer credit company on the London Stock Exchange.

Want people to know that you're rich? Go and buy the Linksys AC3200 Tri-Band Smart Wi-Fi EA9200 Router. CNET editor Dong Ngo didn't buy it, but that's only because he's better than rich. Really!

Seven in ten people aren't happy in their jobs. You can do something about that--right now.

Berkshire said on Friday that it earned $4.62 billion, or $2,811 a Class A share.

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Google's mystery barges that were said to be showrooms for Google Glass were reportedly abandoned because of fire safety concerns raised by the Coast Guard. Google sold one of the barges for scrap metal in August, with t...

More young people need to get a taste of working life in their teens, says the Government, as figures show a 50% drop since 2000.

Solid job growth in October, the ninth straight month with more than 200,000 new jobs created, and a drop in the unemployment rate to a new six-year low of 5.8% showed that the labor market is strengthening.

Ed Park, a novelist who shaped Amazon's sole literary fiction imprint with his taste and connections, is leaving, raising questions about the program's future.

In an effort to boost its slowing economy, China approved 693.3 billion yuan ($113.24 billion) worth of infrastructure projects in recent weeks, Reuters reported, citing accounts by state media outlets. The projects will...

In May of last year, a group of powerful tech executives gathered for a $2,600-a-head fundraiser in San Francisco to support a former Obama administration official they hoped would unseat Rep. Mike Honda, the Democratic ...

An embezzler who served time in federal prison was arrested Friday in a scheme to steal at least $8.5 million from Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. to finance a lavish lifestyle, the…

The company announced it would take charges of more than $2.7 billion because of weakening demand for its rigs.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg held his first public Q&A on Thursday, covering a range of topics including why he always wears a gray shirt, 'The Social Network' movie and whether Facebook is losing its cool factor or not.

The Agriculture Department on Friday approved the first genetically modified potato for commercial planting in the United States, a move likely to draw the ire of groups opposed to artificial manipulation of foods.

Wall Street will get a glimpse next week into the mindset of the U.S. consumer ahead of the holiday shopping season. Retail sales figures for October are slated to be released, along with corporate earnings from discount...

Consumer credit in the U.S. climbed in September, as Americans increased borrowing for student and auto loans. Credit grew at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.9 percent, up from August's revised 5.2 percent growth,...

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday that it would hear another challenge to the Affordable Care Act in a case that could destroy Obamacare. But the plaintiffs may have a tough time succeeding on the legal merits of t...

In 1942, after a coalition of Allied forces successfully triumphed in the Battle of Egypt, Winston Churchill famously said, "Now is not the end. It is not the beginning of the end. But it is the end of the beginning."

Matt Taibbi, the notoriously hard-hitting journalist known for his work with Rolling Stone, published a searing article on Thursday revealing what he calls "one of the biggest cases of white-collar crime in American hist...

The Verona, Wisconsin-based EHR giant will soon begin hosting the electronic health records systems of its hospital and medical group clients in the large new data center on its campus in Verona, Wisconsin.

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