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Profits hard to come by in digital music; all eyes (and ears) are on YouTube and Apple.          

Try to talk about the policies we need in a depressed world economy, and someone is sure to counter with the specter of Weimar Germany, supposedly an object lesson in the dangers of budget deficits and monetary expansion...

  Samsung Electronics now tops Apple in popularity among American consumers, according to a Harris Poll report. “Samsung, steadily gaining ground over the past four years, rises to #3 and tops Apple for first time, wh...

New England is getting hit with a snowstorm of historic proportions. Some parts of the region were buried in more than two feet of snow over the weekend, according to The New York Times. Boston got hit especially hard. S...

Thousands are taking to the streets in Greece to show their support for a new leftist government, ahead of debt talks with lenders. They say Eurozone needs to stand united, and their country needs help. With many of the ...

Your typical store-bought dominoes are all of the same size, but what happens when you set up a series so that each is a bit bigger than the last? It won't come as a surprise that they fall just as a regular series of do...

Hackers have stolen approximately $1 billion in what could be one of the largest bank heists ever, according to a new report from the Internet security firm Kaspersky Lab.

Because humans tend to be superficial, it is not unusual to hear them talk about how someone looks or mention that someone is attractive.

Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak has a crazy watch. In an interview with the BBC, published yesterday, he talks up his timepiece that uses "vacuum tubes" to function. It's a "high-power, high-voltage" device that harkens ba...

New Zealand's dollar strengthened on retail sales data as the recovery in crude oil continued, bolstering the Malaysian ringgit

Billionaire Michele Ferrero, whose global chocolate empire included Nutella spread and Ferrero Rocher chocolates, has died aged 89.

Japan's economy expanded at an annualized rate of 2.2 percent in the final quarter of 2014, less than the 3.6 percent many experts had predicted.

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Chinese investors, who got burned investing in big European banks during the financial crisis, are refocusing on a new target: small, struggling finance companies.

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Toy Fair's in town, but with so many high-tech diversions it might as well be the Consumer Electronics Show. From drones to self-driving cars to a Barbie capable of having...

Some country in Asia is always growing crazily on factory investment and a strong consumer base. Then when the West gets to idolizing it, the place slips. Japan is just now testing emergence from 20 years of sloth after ...

Pampered guests at the five-star Montage Laguna Beach resort can swim in a lap pool overlooking the Pacific, dine on caviar and sleep on goose-down pillows to a lullaby of crashing waves.

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After patiently abiding a steep increase in research and development spending, Wall Street is starting to wonder when -- and if -- Google's science projects will pay off.

Housing experts and recent first-time buyers give their advice.          

A world where cars own themselves and even have kids