Debrahlee Lorenzana is filing a lawsuit against Citibank because they fired her, she says, for the strangest reason: she's too hot.

Trading billions of shares in the blink of an eye has made stock markets more responsive

Diving into an extremely competitive and capital-intensive business is a hard way to make fast money. After selling Paypal to eBay in 2002, Musk and his partners netted $1.5 billion. An unknown portion of that went to Musk, who promptly turned around and invested several hundred mill into three enterprises: Tesla, SpaceX and SolarCity.

That comes to $117,978 per taxpayer.

When Starbucks announced last week that it would offer its second-tier Seattle's Best coffee in fast-food outlets, it was a tacit admission that the time had come to battle McDonald's on its own turf

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The two-sidedness of hypocrites who profess to be all about renewable energy and weaning the U.S. off of foreign oil – which explains their rabid support for corn ethanol –, but when the conversation turns to methanol they start to bad mouth it.

The laboratory that officials have chosen to process virtually all of the samples is part of an oil and gas services company in Texas that counts oil firms, including BP, among its biggest clients.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Declaring himself as angry as the rest of the nation, President Barack Obama assailed oil drillers and his own administration Friday as he ordered extra scrutiny of drilling permits to head off any repeat of the sickening oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Spun out of university research labs or started by local entrepreneurs trying to supercharge their hometowns, business incubators are everywhere. This map puts the spotlight on 20 initiatives.