Chinese policy makers are scratching their heads after a raft of measures meant to cool the country’s red-hot real estate market seem to have done little to accomplish their aim. Rising property shares sent Hong Kong’s Hang Sen…
If nobody’s perfect, same goes for computers. Big Blue’s digital dynamo Watson may have handily defeated its human rivals this week on the Jeopardy! challenge, but it made some major errors along the way. IBM’s engineers have b…
Credit card companies are seeking to delay enforcement of lower limits on so-called “swipe fees.” If successful, the postponement will cost customers and retailers more than $1 billion a month.
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Hoping to switch jobs? Don’t quit yet. Your job search may be even harder if you are already unemployed. Some employers won’t even consider hiring you if you are currently out of work. Are they allowed to do that, or is it ille…
It’s absolutely worth protesting that New York University graduates leave the school with an average of $33,487 in student loan debt. But T-shirts and moments of silence aren’t going to change anything. If they were smart and s…