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  • A specialist trader is reflected on his screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange August 25, 2015. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

    Wall Street Looks to Critical March Jobs Report

    By Patti Domm, CNBC

    A truckload of data will hit markets in the coming week, but it's the jobs report Friday when Wall Street is closed that will be the most important and possibly have the most lasting impact. The...

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    The Secret Success of Today’s Biohackers

    By Ellen Jorgensen, Techonomy

    In a laboratory in New York City, molecular biologist Roy Buchanan is finishing up at the bench for the day. It is eight o’clock in the evening, and while late night work is a familiar scenario for...

  • Stocks Have Scores of Reasons for New Volatility

    By Patti Domm, CNBC

    Stocks, stuck in their own zigzag pattern, remain vulnerable to the whims of unusually volatile currencies in the week ahead. As financial markets adjust to the Fed's latest guidance on rates,...

  • U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees work during a guided media tour inside the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center in Arlington, Virginia in this file photo taken on June 26, 2014. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

    Hack Attacks Mean More Cyber Firms Will Go Public

    By Liana B. Baker, Reuters

    Rapid7, LogRhythm and Mimecast are joining a growing list of cybersecurity firms planning to go public in 2015 to capitalize on investor interest following a spate of hacker attacks, according to...

  • Why the Military Wants to Restore Your Online Privacy

    By Patrick Tucker, Defense One

    The average, technologically connected American worker produces some 5,000 megabytes of digital data a day, enough to fill nine CD-ROMs. Only a small fraction of it is stored permanently or is...

  • Innovation: What It Really Takes to Market a Good Idea

    By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

    Management gurus who have long touted the value of teamwork and productive collaboration now have new evidence from journalist and biographer Walter Isaacson. In his new book The Innovators : How a...

  • How the One Percent Profit from Frequent Flyer Status

    By Yuriy Gorodnichenko, The Conversation

    Frequent flyer programs are one of the primary ways airlines build customer loyalty . In a nutshell, the more you travel with the same airline (or its partners), the higher the odds you will be able...

  • Why Cybercrime Lurks Behind Every Black Friday Purchase

    By Diana S. Dolliver, The Conversation

    Shoppers have launched into the holiday buying season and retailers are looking forward to year-end sales that make up almost 20% of their annual receipts. But as you check out at a store or click “...

  • There Are Now 69,560 Americans Worth $30M or More

    By Robert Frank, CNBC

    In the increasingly top-heavy world of wealth, $30 million is the new $1 million. And the number of people with a net worth of $30 million or higher is growing rapidly in the U.S., especially in...

  • How Much Health Data Can We Actually Handle?

    By Meredith Salisbury, Techonomy

    Nothing symbolizes this revolution more than Apple’s healthcare-oriented iWatch, expected in early 2015. Increasingly, ordinary people can utilize devices, apps, medical tests, and data analysis to...