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Speaking to ComputerWorld, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has confirmed the price of its recently announced "Continuum" display dock. The display dock, which is priced at $99 plus tax, was unveiled during Microsoft'...

A futuristic-looking jet injector can shoot this year's flu vaccine into your arm without a needle. Though it may look like something from a sci-fi movie, the PharmaJet Needle-free Jet Injector is inspired by vaccination...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Members of the UConn community have begun a couple of fundraisers hoping to offset the negative image generated by a video of a student berating food service workers who refused to sell him jalape...

Arrest follows request by Dublin prosecutors who are pursuing executives over massive failure of Allied Irish Bank, which needed huge government bailout US marshals in Massachusetts have arrested David Drumm - the former...

More than 94 million adult Americans are no longer counted as being in the labor force, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' September data. This means that 94.6 million...

Cigarette companies pushed EC's Better Regulation agenda to secure three-year moratorium on plain packaging The world's largest tobacco companies were instrumental in promoting Europe-wide, pro-business regulations that ...

MPs on Commons transport committee to question company's plans to repair 1.2m affected vehicles Poor old Paul Willis. You probably don't recognise his name, but he is about to become the face of the Volkswagen scandal in...

Lender warns on last day at Lima of the need for 'continued accommodative monetary policies' amid rising opposition from critics of ultra-low interest The International Monetary Fund concluded its annual meeting in Lima ...

As something of an amateur historian, my biggest question about the IRS Scandal, which I sometimes refer to as Teapartygate, is how prominent it will be in our historical memory in a few decades.  There are certain cont...

UK Home Secretary Theresa May has done us all a huge favour with her speech on immigration at the Conservative Party conference today, because it gives Britain the opportunity to learn how immigration actually affects ...

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Driverless cars are no longer a question of "if" or even "when?" Instead, the tech industry is starting to ask a crucial follow-up question: How? I spent a couple days last week at Code/Mobile, a conference for tech exec...

A number of years ago, I had a colleague who had a heart-problem and became ill. After months of struggle, she left the company. It made sense on the surface. She couldn’t do the job well anymore - and our employer pro...

Fed officials appear open to employing negative rates in the next crisis, a turnaround from their position during the financial crisis.

Citizen’s views of their finances haven’t improved in the past couple of years. Some blame the president.

(By Joseph D’Urso, Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Frustrated by the lack of technological solutions to the European refugee crisis, a group of London-based techies has started working with charities to find ways to he...

Remember when Airbnb was poster boy for the disruption of traditional industries? The latest corporate personification of the American dream, formed literally as AirBed & Breakfast when its co-founders were looking to pa...

Riviera Maya is balancing growth with sustainability and a focus on luxury, adventure and experiential travel.

Riviera Maya is balancing growth with sustainability and a focus on luxury, adventure and experiential travel.

Sellers of businesses who are residents of zero-income-tax states can reduce their federal income tax burden through a long-used type of trust typically used by residents of high-income-tax states. At first blush, "zero"...

I hurried down the stairs to answer the doorbell, as quickly as I could, given that I was nine months pregnant. As I opened the door, I was met by a man looking sheepishly at my heaving stomach. “I’m the bailiff with...

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