General Electric has been a piston of the American economic engine for 125 years. It pioneered the light bulb and the jet engine. It survived the Great Depression, the dot-com crash and the 2008 ...

Government agencies across the country are hiring private debt collectors to go after millions of Americans over unpaid taxes, ancient parking tickets and even $1 tolls. It’s a good deal for ...

Just this June, Fortune Magazine announced a new milestone in its list of Fortune 500 female CEOs. The number of women CEOs listed had reached an all–time high: 32 in a single year. The ...

Just how big a deal is artificial intelligence? "AI is probably the most important thing humanity has ever worked on. I think of it as something more profound than electricity or fire." That's a ...

Elon Musk wants to die on Mars ..."just not on impact." That's according to the final paragraph of a new book about the billionaire who built a commercial rocket company from scratch and upended ...

See how revenues and profits at America's 25 largest companies have risen and fallen over the past decade.

Imagine having a great credit score and being denied for a mortgage just because you live in a low-income neighborhood. Redlining, the refusal by banks to lend to poor and minority communities ...

The stock market should have carried a warning in 2016: Steep drops and sudden acceleration may cause whiplash. From crashing oil prices that fueled Wall Street's worst-ever start to a year, to ...

KFC has issued a high-profile, humorous apology for its chicken shortages in the UK. The fast-food chain used a full-page ad in British newspapers to apologize for shutting down hundreds of ...

When Monica Harwell began a program that trained women to work at Con Edison, the energy utility provider for New York, she thought her dreams of having a job working outdoors would finally be ...

Not everyone was surprised when ransomware infected 300,000 machines in 150 countries. The ransomware, called WannaCry, targeted businesses running outdated Windows machines. It leveraged an ...

UFC, the mixed martial arts league, will be sold for $4 billion, by far the richest sale in the history of professional sports. The sale dwarfs previous sales of any sports franchise. The Los ...