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By now it is almost gospel that investing in innovative new products and services helps a company's long-term success.

While Barack Obama's "favorite banker" continues to receive the royal treatment in Washington, new sleaze allegations threaten to further tarnish the golden boy image of "teflon don" Jamie Dimon, the CEO and Chairman of JPMorgan Chase.

But when Wall Street's two most powerful bankers do a public show like they did last week, it's done to send a message.

The legacy of J.C. Penney's former CEO continues to cast a dark cloud over the department-store chain.

Any West Virginian interested in creating a competitive, self-sustaining economy should read Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive By Investing In Nature.

Taiwan's HTC Corp. remained one of the world's top 10 smartphone makers in the first quarter despite sliding sales figures, according to local market research firm Digitimes Research.

Located on eight acres in Fort Myers, the Florida office of technology research giant Gartner Inc.

Westinghouse Electric Company announced that it has signed a Sourcing and Procurement Services agreement with the global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company Accenture .

Cashay Lee-Hill, 17, of Milwaukee was arrested May 4 for felony forgery for trying to buy $8.68 worth of merchandise at Bed Bath and Beyond with a counterfeit $100 bill, according to Deerfield Police reports .

Renting an apartment in New York often resembles an obstacle course. A new company is aiming to simplify the search by putting the process online.

Call it the smell test. When Google justifies paying minimal taxes in the UK because "no money changes hands" here, while admitting that up to 70% of its relevant ad revenues are handled by UK staff, then all may be legal - but something still doesn't smell right.

Accenture PLC has agreed to purchase Acquity Group Ltd. for about $316 million in cash to expand the consulting company's range of digital marketing services.

The announcement comes shortly after a scandal at the financial data services company in which reporters were given access to terminal customers' data.

A number of Wall Street firms are hoping to cut back on at least some of the popular features offered by Bloomberg LP - moves that could crimp the data distributor's bottom line.

Global sales of luxury goods are off to a slow start in 2013 and aren't expected to match the double-digit growth of the last three years, consultancy Bain & Co.

Macquarie cut its forecast for prices of all the major agricultural commodities bar cotton - but particularly for corn and wheat, for which it foresaw prices tumbling to levels rarely seen since 2010.

The Australian arm of global consulting firm Accenture has been named the country's top employer for LGBTI people in 2013.

Luxury goods revenues to grow 50pc faster than global GDP: Bain Fueled by current consumption habits and key global markets, luxury goods revenues could grow as much as 50 percent faster than the global gross domestic product, according to a new report from Bain & Co.

SolarCity, a San Mateo solar-energy developer chaired by billionaire Elon Musk , won financing from Goldman Sachs for more than $500 million in rooftop solar systems that the company will complete this year.

NEW YORK – The legacy of J.C. Penney's former CEO continues to cast a dark cloud over the department store chain.