JPMorgan Chase (JPM), the first of the big banks to report third-quarter earnings, kicked it off with a bang this morning. The New York-based bank said its quarterly profit jumped to $3.6 billion, or

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At a recent cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, Charlie Miller of Independent Security Evaluators demonstrated how a hacker could take control of an Apple (AAPL) iPhone by sending a series of

Back in college, when I was but a mere teenager, it seemed I was intuitively destined to become big in marketing. I worked one summer as a cocktail waitress at The Tamiment Resort in the Poconos. It

Two years ago, the clothing company American Apparel (APP) used Woody Allen’s image -- a still shot of Allen as a Hasidic rabbi from his 1977 movie Annie Hall  -- on billboards i

 A narrower loss passes for good news in the chronically downbeat housing market.Homebuilder Lennar (LEN) says its loss for the third quarter narrowed, but revenue declined by more than 50%.The

The Securities and Exchange Commission may require some US companies to switch to international accounting rules by 2014. The SEC says the change will make American companies more competitive in the

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Dell (DELL) says price cuts boosted second quarter sales, but cut profits 17%. Dell’s profit dropped to $616 million, or $0.31 per share, from $746 million, or $0.32, for the same period a year