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In a bleak new report, the World Economic Forum (WEF) predicts heavy job losses to automation and robotics over the next four years as technological advances significantly reshape the industrial landscape. The WEF outlines its grim forecast for the labor

In the world of hyper-competitive business and San Francisco’s experimental culture a trend has emerged – microdosing psychedelic drugs to improve performance.

Model and former stripper Amber Rose tells TIME magazine that women can use “seductive skills” to achieve their career and business goals.

In-N-Out Burger, the living testament to the art of the perfect cheap cheeseburger, only operates a few hundred stores in a handful of West Coast states–and the chain’s owner says the company will “never” go public.

Some Democrats in the California Assembly are bucking the leftist tide of their party by voting down or stopping bills cherished by those wishing to spend more and more money.

After an 18 year “vacation,” Dunkin’ Donuts is returning to California with a vengeance. The Canton, Massachusetts-based company has already opened ten stores in the state, has just announced nine in the Bay Area, and expects to eventually have 1,000 stores in California.

A car dealer in West Palm Beach, Florida, is defiant in the face of threats from city officials to fine him for placing American flag banners on his car lot in violation, they say, of a city ordinance.

John Malone, Chairman of Liberty Media, the dominant shareholder of Charter Communications, reportedly called Time Warner Cable CEO Rob Marcus in recent days about a friendly merger following the collapse last week of an offer by Comcast to buy Time Warner, according to the Wall Street Journal blog. Malone and Marcus appear be discussing a 3-way merger that would challenge Comcast’s industry dominance.

Joel Kotkin, the noted liberal critic of California’s far-left government, says that Gov. Jerry Brown is leading California to ruin–and that the state’s business leaders share the blame by failing to speak out. In a new essay at the Daily Beast that summarizes much of his recent criticism, Kotkin says that while Brown’s father Pat brought the state progress and prosperity as governor (1959-1967), Jerry Brown “has waged a kind of Oedipal struggle against his father’s legacy.”

More than 100 business executives running companies which together employ more than half a million people have come out in support of the Conservative Party. They are urging the electorate not to change course in the upcoming general election. The

The Texas Senate has passed a package of bills that include substantial reforms to the state’s franchise tax, a tax on a business’ gross margins. Conservatives are cheering the news, and turning a hopeful eye toward the House, where the fate of these reforms now rests.

Most drug war observers know that drug-related violence—especially in industrial and metropolitan areas like Ciudad Juárez—has a negative impact on the local community. But the University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP) has recently published a report detailing the various short- and long-term effects of this violence on Mexican businesses, and how this has had some effect on Texas border communities.

Two Labour donors have waded into the ongoing conflict between the Labour party and the business community, criticising Labour leader Ed Miliband for his “unnecessary” assault on commercial enterprise, and warning that the stock market will tumble if Labour win the general

What wouldn’t you give to put your money in a business that grew 74 percent in one year? There is such a business, the fastest-growing business in the nation: selling marijuana legally.

While Disney delivers “Frozen,” Universal delivers “Despicable Me,” and Warners delivers “The Lego Movie,” DreamWorks Animation is reeling from its latest box office disappointment, “Penguins of Madagascar” after already losing money on “Mr. Peabody & Sherman,” “Turbo,” and the disastrous

In a stunning Tuesday report, Gallup CEO and Chairman Jim Clifton revealed that “for the first time in 35 years, American business deaths now outnumber business births.”

The wild ride for American Apparel founder and CEO and 27% shareholder, Dov Charney, came to an end with his termination by the public company’s Board of Directors for “cause.” Charney was suspended on June 18 due to alleged work-related