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McDonald's Corp. CEO Jack Greenberg said Thursday he plans to retire at the end of the year. Greenberg, a 21-year veteran of McDonald's, will be succeeded by McDonald's Vice Chairman and President Jim ...

General Electric has been a piston of the American economic engine for 125 years. It pioneered the light bulb and the jet engine. It survived the Great Depression, the dot-com crash and the 2008 ...

I have commitment issues -- with my diet. Name the diet, and I've tried it. I'm currently a pescatarian with fish as my main protein source. But I've been a carnivore, vegetarian and vegan, too.

KFC has issued a high-profile, humorous apology for its chicken shortages in the UK. The fast-food chain used a full-page ad in British newspapers to apologize for shutting down hundreds of ...

Just this June, Fortune Magazine announced a new milestone in its list of Fortune 500 female CEOs. The number of women CEOs listed had reached an all–time high: 32 in a single year. The ...

Travis Kalanick spent most of the past decade turning a taxi app into the world's most valuable startup. But his ride as CEO of Uber came to an end Tuesday when he resigned after a seemingly ...

Editor's Note: Today, a Canadian payment processor named PacNet Services, Ltd. became one of the many targets of an unprecedented crackdown on global mail fraud, which was announced today by ...

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Claire's has filed for bankruptcy. The hub for ear piercings at malls across America is the latest retailer to succumb to its massive pile of debt. Claire's, which says it has pierced more than ...

President Trump devoted much of Thursday's press conference, which he called to announce a new nominee for secretary of labor, to attacking the media. He criticized the press in general and had ...

The past few years have shown how our propensity to speculate and to share online can quickly transform a fringe thought into conventional thinking. On Wednesday, we got new evidence of the ...