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Rachel Carrell jokes that the only theme in her life story has been that she quite likes "doing random things". The former University of Otago student is now at the helm of DrThom, the UK's largest online doctor service, which is aiming for turnover of 10 million this year.

President Obama can thank baby boomers at least in part for the drop in the U.S. unemployment rate with the first post-World War II generation hitting retirement age at a rate of 10,000 a day.

The Future of the Network and the History of the Computer - two keynotes that kicked off the conference, with Rene Obermann of Deutsche Telecom talking about a more open future for mobile networks, and George Dyson showing how the past of computing might point its way to the future.

NEW DELHI: Indian-American private equity investor Rajat Gupta is in a soup not only in the US where he is accused of insider trading.

Cpl. Keaton G. Coffey was just weeks away from a new chapter of his life. The gifts had been registered at Bed, Bath & Beyond, and the invitations had been sent: In July, the 22-year-old planned to marry Brittany Dygert, a local hair stylist whom he met through his mother.

May 26 -- At Raj Rajaratnam's insider-trading trial one year ago, Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

NEW YORK - Facebook's stock price slipped again on Friday, down more than 15% from the price of its initial public offering one week ago - a market debut that infuriated investors and prompted a lawsuit.

Financial distress and political turmoil persists in Greece. And now a Greek exit from the euro is what everyone is buzzing about these days.

Finding growth today can be an enormous challenge for companies in a complex and fast-changing business environment.

America needs to break up its biggest banks, but not for reasons likely to give a tingle to Occupy Wall Street's remnant rabble .

Alorica currently provides over 250 jobs to veterans working throughout the United States and has had a specific focus on hiring veterans for the last two years.

A private detective working for Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers used a legally questionable tactic to obtain a hotel bill that a New York financier ran up at one of London's swankest hotels, records reviewed by Reuters show.

"Applying SAS' advanced analytics to multi-channel campaign management has allowed enterprises to focus on customers who matter most, execute, orchestrate across multiple channels, and make continuous improvements-with more precision, efficiency and speed." SAS is aggressively enhancing speed and performance for marketers.

Long coal train, South Dakota, 1946. Carol M Highsmith, American SSA Marine , which isA 51% owned by Goldman Sachs ,A has applied for federal and state permits A to build facilities at Cherry Point to ship coal from the Rocky Mountains to China, thereby making the Pacific Northwest the largest coal exporting region in the country.

When Duke Energy 's chief technology officer David Mohler visits China next week, he'll stop by the city of Langfang to check out a project that aims to show what a city of the future might look like if it incorporates coal-based and renewable energy generation, biofuel production and water recycling.

The 63-year-old Gupta is accused of providing now-imprisoned hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam with boardroom secrets between March 2007 and January 2009 while he was a director of Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble Co Chief Financial Officer Mark Belgya testified that details were intended to be kept confidential until a joint press release by the ... (more)

CommerceFirst Bancorp shareholders approved the company's $25.4 million merger with Olney's Sandy Spring Bancorp, Sandy Spring said Thursday.

In this Tuesday, April 27, 2010, file photo, Goldman Sachs chairman and chief executive officer Lloyd Blankfein waits to testify before the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on Wall Street investment banks and the financial crisis on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 27, 2010.

Through the new partnership, Carousel adds a powerful services-based component to its existing best-of-breed IT security portfolio, strengthening its ability to deliver holistic security solutions to its enterprise-level customers.

John Nens had a great day when Ford got possession of its Blue Oval logo back recently.