The earnings reporting period heats up this week, with nearly a quarter of the S&P 500 due to release results, bringing questions about the pace of company profit growth front and center.

Bill and Melinda Gates’s “smart home” in Medina, Wash., cost an estimated $113 million to build – but that’s pennies compared with what consumers are starting to spend every year on making their homes smarter.

Google Inc. is in talks to acquire Adscape Media Inc. in a move to expand beyond its traditional Internet search advertising business and into video games, a news report said Saturday.

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Americans have never taken much to living abroad, at least not to the same degree the British have. Some 5.5 million Brits, about 10 percent of that nation’s total population, now live as expatriates, with 200,000 more every year.

To address a steep drop in profits, CEO Ed Zander is cutting jobs and betting on an open-source software platform for smarter phones

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A world in which eco-friendly and socially responsible practices actually help a company’s bottom line is closer than you think

Stocks were mixed Friday after upbeat results from a trio of big blue chips failed to boost the broader market, leaving investors to mull a rebound in oil prices and a jump in bond yields.

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