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The words "future of work" and "hierarchy" don't exactly go together. I have never come across an executive who said they wanted to add more layers to their organizations or create MORE hierarchy. In fact in today's rapi...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The stock indexes closed down for the fifth day in a row on Thursday. The DJIA lost another 106.38 points to close at 17,320.71 while the S&P 500 was lower by 18.60 to close at 1,992.67. The Nasd...

The Swiss franc soars as much as 40% in chaotic trade after the Swiss Central Bank abandon the cap on the currency's value against the euro.

SpaceX today posted a video of its Falcon 9’s short flight on Saturday, the first attempt after multiple delays. The rocket had a successful launch from the autonomous ocean platform, though the same can’t be said fo...

Last night I attended a meeting of the Luxury Marketing Council, hosted at the Strand Hotel here in New York. Our firm has represented major players in the luxury goods segment for over two decades, so the Council is a g...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of the National Bank of Greece are down by 4.09% to $1.64 in mid-morning trading on Friday, as two of the country's banks, Eurobank Ergasias and Alpha Bank, request emergency liquidity ass...

A new report on which income brackets pay the most taxes is getting a lot of attention. But its findings of an "unfair" system bear scrutiny.

SAN FRANCISCO (TheStreet) -- BlackBerry tanked Thursday after Samsung denied it was in buyout talks with the Canadian smartphone maker, jerking the stock from its rocket-ride performance the previous day, when reports su...

The oil company faces a maximum penalty of $13.7 billion at a trial this month after a federal judge found the spill was smaller than estimated.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of Lululemon Athletica are lower by 1.03% to $61.87 in early market trading Friday despite having coverage initiated by analysts at Bernstein Research with an "outperform" rating this mor...

RBS has conceded it may have mis-sold a Government scheme designed to help small businesses obtain credit

What do department stores and restaurants have in common with search engines and social networks? For many, it's that they're all getting sued by patent trolls, companies that accuse other businesses of patent infringeme...

It isn't getting any easier on Wall Street. Bank of America and Citigroup on Thursday reported sharply lower fourth-quarter earnings that disappointed investors. Their results came a day after JPMorgan...

Trovebox, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based startup that’s been building photo-management software since 2011, is shutting down. The startup announced the news on its website and in an email to users today: The last 3 1/2 year...

A business professor from Arizona State University is roadtripping from Alaska to Patagonia via Google Earth, and uploading his Streetview pictures as he goes along. Kevin Dooley, who teaches Supply Chain Management at A...

Despite lowest trading since 2005 more than £8.35bn was set aside to pay Wall Street company's 34,000 staff Bankers at Goldman Sachs were paid an average of $373,265 (£245,500) in 2014 after profits at the highest prof...

A bestselling Christian book that claims to detail a boy's trip to heaven and his return to Earth is being pulled from stores after one of its co-authors admitted he made the whole thing up. The 2010 memoir, "The Boy Who...

Dallas Cowboys owner and GM Jerry Jones did not give the most ringing endorsement for re-signing both Dez Bryant and DeMarco Murray this offseason. While both are free agents, re-signing Bryant is the Cowboys' biggest pr...

Residents of Prince William County and surrounding areas filled the auditorium at Battlefield High School this week to protest the possible construction of high-voltage power lines that would support a proposed Haymarket...

You now have the power to break down language barriers thanks to the incredible update Google just made to its Translate app.

This week, Tiffany & Co. published its first ad featuring a same-sex couple. The famed luxury jeweler, known for its iconic Robin's Egg blue boxes, has joined a host of other American companies in not just embracing same...

I moved from being a partner at Battery Ventures and J.P. Morgan Capital to CEO of a startup. Here's what my past life as a VC has taught me about leading a company