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South Korea's central bank cut interest rates to a record low, a move seen as an attempt to stem the economic fall out from an outbreak of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).

A 2013 Class action lawsuit is making rounds after the initial court filing was made public yesterday, highlighting the fact that at least two Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) Store employees directly complained to Chief Executi...

Guotai Junan Securities receives regulatory approval to raise as much as $4.8 billion in an initial public offering in Shanghai, paving the way for what could be China's largest IPO in five years.

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Ford announced that it is the first automaker to open a one-stop 3D digital shop – the Ford 3D Store. With the help of Turbosquid, Ford fans can use 3D printing technology to make their own models of Ford vehicles or ...

torage giant NetApp has seen some weakness in product sales over the last few quarters, with its services division driving much of the company's top line growth. The company recently reported a 7% year-over-year decline ...

Language- learning start-up Duolingo announced on Wednesday that it had raised $45 million in funding led by Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) Capital, the search giants' growth phase investment branch. The figure more than doub...

When it comes to luxury at your fingertips, sometimes there's nothing like a smartphone. A slew of swanky hotels, including the Four Seasons and the Ritz-Carlton have launched mobile apps...

In the 1980’s when the Japanese invaded the U.S. with high quality products, everyone thought that quality circles would enable us to compete. Then in the late 80’s Total Quality Management was a business philosophy ...

Krispy Kreme's shares are soaring on news of a strong quarter. Shares are up as much as 17%, the most in two years, reports Craig Giamonna at Bloomberg News. The company's same-store sales rose more than 5% from the firs...

Facebook recently hosted a summit for 150 CEOs of European gaming companies that demonstrated just how important that industry has become in this region.

Facebook has announced that it's open-sourcing Infer, a code verification tool used to identify buggy mobile code before it ships.

In the week of June 6, claims for unemployment benefits totaled 279,000, up 2,000 than a week before, while economists polled by Bloomberg had a median forecast of 275,000. That said, claims maintaining a sub-300,000 lev...

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The Fed should have already started hiking interest rates but his being held back by a fear of liftoff, said Athanasios Orphanides, a monetary policy expert who worked at the U.S. central bank and was head of the Central...

The world's most valuable company doesn't just confine its activites to America. It's also working hard in China and emerging markets, and has an extensive network of factories and acquisitions in Europe. Apple has an im...

Zimbabwe's central bank announced the demonetization of the Zimbabwe dollar will occur from June 15 until the end of September, according to China's state-run newspaper, Xinhua.  "The banking public should visit their b...

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Investors could value Chemours at an even higher yield initially than Tronox, its likely closest peer.

Question: I rent a room in a house, as do two other tenants. We use the bathroom, kitchen and living room as shared space. The landlord comes in the house on a regular basis, though she does not live there. She hangs out...

Considering George Clooney's mea culpa to Sony for making last year's "Monuments Men," Disney is in for a doozy of an apology for "Tomorrowland." The Clooney-helmed film, which is still...