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South Korea is the plastic surgery capital of the world -- to such an extent that parents will often pay for their children to have double eyelid surgery before they start college. A plastic surgeon in Seoul's Gangnam Di...

As Barclaycard offers its customers free credit checks, we look at what your rating means to you - and to lenders It's the number you need for a happy and fulfilled life - financially speaking. It could be the difference...

Values are more than mere beliefs.They determine how an enterprise will pursue its purpose.

A sales-tax break the Legislature gave Amazon in 2011 expires Jan. 1, making South Carolina the last state to collect among those where officials cut similar deals with the online retail giant. …

MOSCOW (AP) -- When forest fires roared through Siberia this summer, so vast that the smoke blocked vast Lake Baikal from satellite view, Russian officials blamed the blazes on arsonists and disorganized fire crews. Envi...

The government's extraordinary effort since 2008 to get the economy moving has failed. Maybe it's the government's fault.

The politically incorrect card game had a Black Friday deal like no other this year.

The collapse of a wastewater dam at an iron-ore mine left more than 13 dead and has triggered am environmental crisis in the River Doce basin Brazil's government has announced it will sue mining giants BHP Billiton and V...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran unveiled a new model of oil contracts Saturday aimed at attracting foreign investment once sanctions are lifted under a landmark nuclear deal reached earlier this year and said U.S. companies wo...

The 7-inch Amazon Fire tablet was a Black Friday hit, according to receipts data collected by Info Scout. Info Scout makes a series of apps that allow users to photograph and manage sales receipts. The 8GB version of the...

Small retailers have been outperforming their larger counterparts for more than a year.

Thanksgiving and Black Friday online sales set a new record in 2015: $4.47 billion, up 18 percent over last year. More specifically, $1.73 billion was spent on Thanksgiving and $2.74 billion was spent online on Black Fri...

GUEST: Despite having the world's third largest economy, Japan's social media ecosystem is perhaps the most unique in the developed world — and among the most difficult for Silicon Valley to understand, let alone capit...

Small business Saturday is a great time to make a difference. Here's a connection to climate change.

When I began teaching as Visiting Professor in the MBA program at the University of Hong Kong in February 2012 I had entitled the course “Asia in the New Global Order”. At the first class one of the students asked, �...

A malfunction by an American Airlines bidding system program provided at least 200 legacy US Airways flight attendants with December schedules --including holiday schedules -- they don’t want to fly, provoking an angry...

Many times when we (myself included) speak about  the future of work, the conversations tend to skew toward larger companies. However, the reality is that smaller companies are actually poised to do quite well when we ...

GUEST: The consensus approach for building a great product is to craft a vision and then jealously guard that vision from outside interference as you drive it home. Product thought leaders have a simple strategy for this...

The Michigan Legislature returns Tuesday for two or three weeks of voting with a number of issues on tap before it adjourns for the year. …

The cryptocurrency exchange behind the recently launched OBITS currency initiative, CCEDK, is increasing the future payouts derived from profits and fees generated through user registrations on OpenLedger and other assoc...

Jeff Overall explains the stunning evolution of how he started producing homemade GoPro (GPRO) camera filters while a student at UC Santa Barbara. In four years, his company PolarPro expanded into making a variety of act...

The stock market was generally higher last week led by the 2.3% gain in iShares Russell 2000 (IWM). This was impressive compared to the 0.4% gain in the S&P 500 or the 0.14% loss in the Dow Industrials. The Dow Transport...