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In a strange twist, Internet retail giant Amazon is both supporting and fighting the effort to get sellers on the web to collect state sales tax. Late last month, Amazon …

By MARY PATRICK Many companies are adopting a new policy that seemed unthinkable not that long ago – allowing employees to take an unlimited amount of time for vacation. Most …

By MARY PATRICK In a sign of an improving economic outlook, recent surveys have found that small business owners had increased optimism about the future in July and August. Also, …

By MARY PATRICK Consumer spending rose .1% in July, lower than many experts predicted and also lower than the .6% increase in June, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. …

By MARY PATRICK Even with a Democrat in office who often speaks about the importance of diversity, women still are not being named to high-level in jobs in Washington D.C. …

By MARY WALKER After steering clear of Super Bowl advertising in 2013, General Motors has announced that it will purchase advertising time for Super Bowl 48, which is scheduled to …

By MARY PATRICK Donald Trump has been accused of the bilking college students of about $40 million through his Trump University real estate program, according to New York prosecutors. In …

By MARY PATRICK In yet another case that shows the growing need for cyber experts, two men have been charged with stealing source code from a New York firm in …

By MARY PATRICK In his last stop during his bus tour through New York and Pennsylvania to talk about education issues, President Barack Obama suggested that law schools and for-profit …

By MARY PATRICK President Barack Obama’s plan to lower education costs, which was unveiled this week during a speech in Buffalo, would fundamentally change how potential students pick a university …