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Despite the recent epidemic of explosions, hoverboards were the hot holiday gift this year. And on Christmas, the internet was full of photos and videos of people wiping out and injuring themselves while trying their new...

Disney With "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" shattering box-office records over the weekend, the inevitable question now is how much did everyone in the movie get paid? Variety looked into the question, and what it found i...

Flickr/Ley When you first interview for a job or head into a salary negotiation, there's a lot that's under your control. You can easily impress the person on the other side of the table by talking about your past achiev...

The new law, effective Friday, allows concealed-permit holders to have their handguns visible.          

Barclays, Santander, TSB, Lloyds, Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest sign up to new year reforms Millions of bank customers are set to save hundreds of pounds with the launch of fee-free bank accounts in the new year, fo...

A slowdown in economic activity in EMs and the currency weakness against the US dollar together have pushed up the debt-to-GDP ratio in these regions

REUTERS/Larry Downing There are two clear winners on Wall Street in this year's deal-making bonanza. JPMorgan ranked as the top investment bank globally by fees for the year to December 17, according to data provider De...

Mr. Money Mustache After a mere 10 years of working as software engineers, Peter Adeney (better known as "Mr. Money Mustache") and his wife Simi had enough money to retire comfortably and debt-free. That was in 2005, rig...

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Ken Ishii/Getty CEO Reed Hastings will be paid $900,000 in 2016 by Netflix, but can make many times that in stock options, according to Variety. Hastings' stock options allowance for 2016 will sit at over $19 million, ...

REUTERS/Andrew Kelly Women’s products cost more than men’s products across dozens of categories, affecting the cost of everything from toys to clothes to canes, a new report found. In a study titled “From Cradle to...

Hint: It's not about student loan debt. We can do better.          

As we say goodbye to 2015, many employees are using up their final vacation days of the year. That's especially true for employees whose workplaces have a "use it or lose it" policy, and don't allow staffers to roll over...

China's economy lost some luster and its leaders their aura of invincibility, making it the top business story in 2015, say AP business editors.

Thomson Reuters It's not an exaggeration to say that Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA) has literally flipped disruption theory on its head. Classical disruption theory suggests that most disruptive entrants start at the bottom ...

Guangzhou, the southern Chinese city once known as Canton, has repeated at the top of a new list of the country’s best cities for business, according to the latest edition of Forbes China, the licensed China-language e...

Yu Dexiang, chairman of Shenzhen-listed Qingdao TGOOD Electric, is on track to end 2015 among the wave of new billionaires from the country to be minted in the past 12 months.

Keith Reinhard is Chairman Emeritus of DDB Worldwide, one of the largest global advertising agency networks in the world with 206 offices in 96 countries. Reinhard has won and judged numerous advertising awards competiti...

Current system viewed as unfair and too easy to circumvent Abolition of corporation tax is to be considered by a new cross-party group of MPs and peers who will subject ministers and business leaders to public interrogat...

GUEST: The online ad industry is experiencing a seismic shift when it comes to who controls the decision-making and allocation of ad impressions. Brands that leverage technology for programmatic buying have gained the ab...

Assessing the success of holiday shopping season for retailers will involve the weekend after Christmas given the calendar this year and changing shopping trends.

Falling oil prices didn't provide the boost to the economy they were supposed to in 2015. The year ahead could be a different story.