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Now that summer is in full swing, air conditioners are a necessity -- and one YouTuber is showing the world how to build one that operates using solar energy for under $50. A video from YouTuber desertsun02, a DIY sola...

In 2008, Alison Turner quit her job in ad sales, hit the road with her rescue dog, Max, and didn't look back. Over the past seven years, Alison and Max have circled the US three times, driven over 100,000 miles, and made...

Muralist Maya Hayuk says she turned down Starbucks's offer to work with her. Then she saw this. They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. But as you might imagine, this cliché rings less true when you'r...

A New York private eye who pleaded guilty earlier this year to hacking into about 60 e-mail accounts is scheduled to be sentenced in Manhattan federal court on Friday --...

Kiss' Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons on 40 years of making music and selling sizzle with the steak.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- There has been a consistent drumbeat of commentary that the stock market is in nosebleed territory and that the end of the six-year bull market is close. Don't believe it. Almost all the underlyi...

Here's a list of today's tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Checkmarx takes in $84M Insight Venture Partners invested $84 million in Checkmarx. The Israeli software...

Banks are facing a huge wave of competition from financial technology, or fintech, startups who are eating away at various parts of their business by using technology to do the job faster, cheaper and better. One of the ...

It happens all the time: You go on Amazon and buy something. And then in the following months you're bombarded with ads for that item you just bought, despite the fact that you now already own it. This is a huge problem ...

Heather Alfonso of Connecticut accepted $83,000 to prescribe Subsys, a powerful painkiller made by Insys Therapeutics. Prosecutors appear to be looking more closely at the company.

McDonald's Corp. said less than half of its U.S. customers are choosing soda for their Happy Meals after the company stopped listing the drinks as an option on menus last July.

The White House's official photographer captured the exact moment that President Barack Obama found out that the Supreme Court saved a crucial component of Obamacare. Peter Souza, the photographer, explained what happene...

It's already clear that terror attack in Tunisia will severely hurt the country's tourism-driven economy.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of the National Bank of Greece are gaining by 7.71% to $1.41 in mid-morning trading on Friday, following reports that Greece and its creditors are close to reaching a deal this weekend that...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Executive compensation and shareholder returns don't always move in the same direction, and sometimes it's the CEOs who get the short end of the stick.  A study in The Wall Street Journal publish...

NEW YORK ( MainStreet) -- In a win for equality and the finances of gay couples, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that states cannot ban same-sex marriage. In Obergefell v. Hodges, better known as the gay marria...

The room-rental service is reportedly about to close a $1.5 billion round of funding that would value the company at $24 billion. Just two months after Uber announced its quest for a $1.5 billion round of funding that wo...

General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) won a contract to build a wind farm in Australia, as part of its long-term strategy to expand its industrial-based businesses. As part of the deal, General Electric will invest approxim...

A prospective Valeant and Zoetis tie-up is likely to come as little surprise to those following the consolidating pharmaceutical and healthcare sector, as drug manufacturers and specialized players look to combine overla...

As a sop to the next Alibaba, Hong Kong toys with the long-standing principle of equal votes for shares. The post Hong Kong stock exchange bows to tech giants was first published on MoneyWeek.

LittleBits Electronics isn't so little anymore. The New York-based maker of electronic components that kids use to build things like robots and simple mechanical gizmos raised $44.2 million in its...

Before the Supreme Court ruled Friday that marriage was a constitutional right same-sex couples, 15 states were not granting gay couples marriage licenses: Alabama Arkansas Georgia Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Michigan Miss...