Every year, certain as death and taxes, February brings two things: displays of cheap heart-shaped boxes of chocolate and highly flammable stuffed animals at your local drugstore, and media coverage ...

I have a singer-songwriter friend who calls himself "The Acoustic Lounge Lizard." One day someone asked him why. "It was a URL I could get," he explained. If you've started a business any time in the ...

Anna Baluch is a freelance writer from Cleveland, Ohio. She enjoys writing about a variety of health and personal finance topics. When she's away from her laptop, she can be found working out, trying ...

If you were investing in the late 1990s, you’ll remember the euphoria of the dot-com boom. Anything with a ".com" at the end of its name could raise millions in capital and see its stock price double ...

1985: Symbolics, a Massachusetts computer company, registers symbolics.com, the internet's first domain name. The market for these unique addresses would not heat up for years, but this click heard ...

This March marks the 20th anniversary of the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2000, which led to the demise of iconic startups with names like Pets.com and Webvan. Experts reminisce about the era ...

A new pathway to a college degree is opening up at several U.S. institutions, and it may pave the way for dramatically more adults accessing and completing an affordable college education. This ...

Andrew Beattie was part of the original editorial team at Investopedia and has spent twenty years writing on a diverse range of financial topics including business, investing, personal finance, and ...

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A child sailing with Carnival Cruise Line fell into the water while the ship was docked in the Bahamas, prompting her mother ...