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Mary Kay is losing its handle on its business as the internet makes it harder to control where its skin cream and makeup are sold.

A once-hot corner of the student loan market that was nearly killed off by the financial crisis has found new life.

The conglomerate that owns Tinder, Match.com, and OKCupid is spinning off its online dating platforms into a separate company and taking it public.

Conventional wisdom holds that Tesla owners are luxury car buyers who have switched from Mercedes or BMWs. But new research shows a large proportion of people who had never spent more than $60,000 for a car before are willing to shell out a premium for a $100,000 Tesla from Elon Musk’s electric car company.

Columbia University, which manages a $9.2 billion endowment, has decided to pull its money from companies that run private prisons, citing the “larger, ongoing discussion of the issue of mass incarceration that concerns citizens from across the ideological spectrum.”

When Renaud Laplanche isn’t running one of America’s fastest-growing companies, he’s chasing after a lifelong obsession to shatter global sailing records. But unlike most CEOs who just use their riches to buy expensive yachts, the CEO of online-lending giant Lending Club actually steers the ship as co-skipper.

Online lending is having a moment.

Crowdfunding is coming to online crafts marketplace Etsy, which says it will now allow some sellers to raise money from shoppers on its e-commerce site.

The pomp and circumstance of Stanford University’s graduation ceremony on June 14 was coupled with the promises of grand success and prestige regularly enjoyed by students of Silicon Valley’s most revered talent farm.

MasterCard is lobbying the UK government for increased regulation of bitcoin and other digital currencies that pose a threat to its legacy credit-cards business, as it tries to adapt to the transformation of a payments industry long overdo for change.

Lee Siegel’s essay in the New York Times this weekend about why he walked away from his student loans was an act of misleading, irresponsible journalism.

A new company, launched last week, wants to offer couples up to $35,000 in loans to cover the cost of a wedding or honeymoon—the most blazing sign yet that splurging on weddings has just gone too far.

Occupy Wall Street shot to popularity back in December 2011 by people fed up with corporate greed and the fallout from the global financial crisis. It was hailed for changing the national conversation about social and economic justice.

A New York Times investigation published today unveiled the inner-workings of Seal Team 6, the elite naval force best known for capturing Osama Bin Laden and until those events, the most secretive unit of the US military.

The words people use say a lot about their personalities, emotions, and thinking. And the ones they use when asking to borrow money, it turns out, also says a lot about whether they are likely to pay others back.

Online lending websites that connect borrowers with lenders are failing at an alarming rate in China, but that hasn’t scared people away from the country’s booming 276 billion yuan ($44 billion) peer-to-peer lending market. 

Target CEO Brian Cornell said he’s in talks with Apple chief Tim Cook to allow shoppers to use Apple Pay at its stores—a partnership Target has so far avoided as not to break ties with a group of retailers and food chains that banded together years ago to create their own mobile wallet.

When you call Verizon FiOS, the customer service representative on the other end of the line already knows quite a lot about you.

There is a big body of academic research, mostly based on surveys and studies, indicating that women are better than men at investing because they are more patient, make fewer off-the-cuff decisions, and exhibit more self-control.

Credit-card fraudsters are everywhere these days, but when it comes to targeting victims, they have a special fondness for Americans.

Deutsche Bank agreed Tuesday (May 26) to pay a $55 million fine to settle charges in the US that the company downplayed just how badly it was doing during the worst part of the financial crisis.

Pope Francis has brought the Vatican Bank back to life.

Most of us hate talking about our finances. It’s confusing. It’s hard. And no one really knows how to get started or whether or not we are making the right decisions.

For the first time, the number of non-cash payments in the UK has exceeded those made with physical currency.