IBM said it elected Virginia Rometty as president and CEO, succeeding Samuel Palmisano, 60, who will retire after 10 years in the post. Rometty will become the first woman in 101 years to lead IBM.
J.Crew's President and Creative Director Jenna Lyons is currently in the midst of a messy divorce from husband Vincent Mazeau, who is an artist. Mazeau wants the couple's Park Slope brownstone, a lump sum of money, and custody of their 5-year-old son.
When will the University of Missouri move to the SEC and when will West Virginia University move to the Big 12?
Just when you thought there was one place the Occupy movement had not occupied, MTV announced on Monday that it will air an Occupy Wall Street True Life special following three young people in New York City protesting for economic and social equality.
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has decided to become a tech investor, contributing to the seed round for NYC-based video broadcasting start-up Mobli.
The controversial HPV vaccine is now being recommended for young boys and men.
The much-anticipated Batman film will begin shooting on Wall Street on Saturday.
Review of Stephanie Madoff Mack’s book “The End of Normal.”
Happy birthday, Katy Perry! The curvaceous cutie turns 27 years old today.
Anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist praised Texas Gov. Rick Perry's proposed 20 percent flat tax, boosting a campaign that has crashed in the past month.
In the largest penalty of its type, UBS AG was fined $12 million by a U.S. brokerage regulator over the Swiss bank's systemic failure to properly handle millions of short-sale orders.
The fame-seeking father allegedly tried to avert going to jail by complaining of chest pains
The New York Times' lawyers on Monday sent a case-and-desist letter to the Huffington Post over the title of a blog written by former Times writer, Lisa Belkin, WWD reported.
What with the usual assortment of doctors, lawyers, ad executives, jingle writers and police showing up on your TV set, you would hardly believe that more than 14 million Americans are out of work.
Ten years ago, Apple released the very first iPod, a deceptively simple media player that dramatically changed the way people listen to music. iPod is not the first MP3 player to appear in the world but it is the first to be sold to the masses and it finally revolutionized the music industry.
It is a debate that has polarized American football fans for over two years. Is former college favorite Tim Tebow an NFL caliber quarterback or not?
The band's fifth studio album is available now.
Go Ask Alice is a sex education forum run by Columbia University' health services department. The site gives students a platform to ask health and sex-related questions and receive responses from educated health professionals who use the penname Alice. It is an internet resource produced by the Alice Health Promotion Program at Columbia University. However, the site is coming under fire for its methods of sex education.
Peabody Energy Corp's (BTU.N) quarterly profit beat Wall Street estimates as the largest U.S. coal producer realized higher pricing in all regions and domestic volumes increased.
Jasan Van Anden of Brooklyn has created a new Android App with inspirations from the Occupy Wall Street protests.
United Parcel Service reported a higher quarterly profit as increased pricing, cost cutting and technology improvements helped compensate for domestic shipping volume dulled by a sluggish economy, and it affirmed its outlook for record 2011 results.
The Case-Shiller home price index reported small increases in prices of 0.2 percent for 20 major cities between June and August. However, annual returns were down 3.8 percent for the 20 cities measured, compared to August 2010.