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Behind the scenes at the annual contest for budding entrepreneurs.
Two veterans working at Credit Suisse talk about the battlefield and the trading floor.

More than 30,000 people are petitioning for stay-at-home parents to get the same access to credit cards as their spouses.

How does the social media giant really work? Read this story before you buy the stock.

Facebook has snapped up dozens of smaller startups and recently dropped $1B on Instagram. Here's what insiders think is on Facebook's radar - or should be.
Stand-up Economist Yoram Bauman compares breaking up with a bank to breaking up with a significant other.

For the first time in history, more than half of American mobile customers own a smartphone -- and more people are using them like computers.

Facebook's IPO is causing a frenzy among investors, but is it a good idea to jump in when FB debuts?

Facebook's average revenue per user is just $1.21, far lower than most companies that report that metric and on the low end of its close competitors.
Co-founder Eduardo Saverin owns about 4% of Facebook but gave up US citizenship to live in Singapore - where his IPO tax bill will be smaller.

After neighbors denied right to build a film studio on his Marin, California property, George Lucas is proposing to build low-income housing there instead.

SUVs take a higher proportion of new car sales today than during the so-called "SUV craze" in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

At least a dozen new pipeline projects are slated for the U.S. over the next few years.

Small business owners say they're faring better than when Obama took office in 2009. But they credit themselves for the economic recovery - not Washington policies.

Bank of America is offering some struggling homeowners payments of up to $30,000 if they sell their homes in a short sale and avoid ending up in foreclosure.
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