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Victoria Treyger is Chief Revenue Officer of Kabbage Shutterstock The freedom to chase your entrepreneurial dream is one of the great foundations of America. Owning a business is a freedom the U.S. Census Bureau of Labor Statistics records 29.6 million Americans pursue today, supporting local communities with products and services while contributing millions of dollars and jobs [...]

Tom Price was sworn in as U.S. secretary of health on Friday, putting in place a determined opponent of Obamacare to help President Donald Trump dismantle his predecessor’s law and reshape the nation’s healthcare system. The Senate voted 52-47 earlier on Friday to approve the conservative Georgia Republican, former U.S. lawmaker and orthopedic surgeon to [...]

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has taken an equity stake of an undisclosed amount in Genius Brands International. The investment was announced Wednesday along with an expansion of last year’s home entertainment distribution agreement to include the worldwide home entertainment marketing and distribution of Genius Brands’ Kid Genius and Baby Genius labels of all Genius Brands’ [...]

Flipkart founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal have handed over the operational control of the company they built over the past decade to Kalyan Krishnamurthy, the nominee of marquee American investor Tiger Global. Krishnamurthy was on Monday named the new chief executive officer (CEO) of the Bengaluru-based company. He replaced co-founder Binny Bansal, who was [...]

KOCHI: Kandukuri Vinoda, a home-maker in Telangana, was one of the early victims of demonetisation drive as she committed suicide. She had Rs 54 lakh cash after selling land. There is a co-relation between real estate transactions and demonetisation. The former being often high-value ones, the customer will always be asked for the source of [...]

Her romance with rapper A$AP Rocky has been labelled ‘the real deal’. And Kendall Jenner, 20, and her new beau enjoyed a nighttime cruise around West Hollywood in the 27-year-old’s extravagant white Ferrari on Wednesday. The model looked comfortable behind the wheel of the powerful motor wearing a lightweight black vest top, a golden choker [...]

A Louisiana man called upon his Olympic spirit to make the best of flooded streets and heavy rain in the area. Jo Guidry, a triathlete from New Iberia, shared video of himself swimming laps in a knee-deep pool of water alongside a local road. “Watching the Olympics + living in South Louisiana,” he wrote. Olympians [...]

Indian real estate, these days is buzzing with two words – affordable housing. Government’s initiatives towards achieving their dream of ‘Housing for all by 2020’ have paved way for this revolution. Today, sector is flooded with affordable homes being launched by every developer to get a pie of this big market. So what does affordable [...]

It’s that time of year again. The sun is shining. You’re barbecuing by the pool or at the beach. Maybe you’ve had a beer or two. Everyone jumps in the water to cool off. You do too. But wait! Your brand-new iPhone is still in your pocket. D’oh! A boozy Memorial Day weekend could lead [...]

Every teacher of low-income children and English-language learners has had this moment: You’re sitting with a student, working line by line through a text, grappling with what should be fairly simple comprehension questions. “Did you read it?” you ask. “I read it,” the child replies. “But I didn’t get it.” Often this is what reading [...]

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow has arrived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, just days ahead of ex-husband Chris Martin’s Coldplay concert. Paltrow, 43, was seen arriving in Buenos Aires on Tuesday reportedly with her two children, Apple, 11, and Moses, 9, in tow, reported People magazine. While Paltrow and Martin flew into the country separately, they’ve been seen [...]

One wealthy Manahattanite is so rich — and has a penthouse so spacious — that he can even devote a bedroom-sized section to display a pile of dirt. And the mound — actually an artwork by China’s living legend Ai WeiWei — isn’t even the most conspicuous of the consumption in the apartment, which was [...]