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More than a year ago, Elon Musk unveiled his design for a high-speed transportation system he called the Hyperloop. A group based in Southern California took the idea and turned that vision into something they believe can actually be built. It seems like it can work, but will anyone come up with the billions needed to turn it into reality?

This is what Elon Musk's futuristic Hyperloop could look like. It is expected to travel more than 600 miles per hour on a system that could possibly incorporate air, magnets and electricity.

Neuroscience has gained so much popularity in the last few years, because of advancements made by scientists in human nature and behavior change. I find neuroscience so interesting, and have been spe…

The healthcare sector started the year on a turbulent note, as stocks of many major biotechnology companies were battered. However, most of the players in this sector have bounced back. The BarclayHed

As much as people may praise great CEOs like Steve Jobs, it’s not at all clear that having a strong CEO is a good thing for most companies. Many studies find that strong CEOs result in lower firm valu

Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) is the top institutional equity holding, while tech giants Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) are second and third must owned inst

A new report from Natixis Global Asset Management highlights a number of valuable insights from their 2014 Global Institutional Investor Survey. A total of 642 institutions participated in the survey.

Introduction to Oil and the Energy Industry by Sui Chuan, ValueEdge The fall in oil prices have been hogging business news in recent weeks. Prices of oil counters have plummeted accordingly, with some

Chinese electric bus maker BYD Co Ltd. stock plunged more than 40% this week, and analysts are puzzled about why that happened. Several firms have issued reports on the company weighing in on the plum

2014 is turning out to be the year of the mega deal. A December 17th report from research firm Towers Watson points out that a very strong year for M&A is ending with a bang, with seven $10 billio

The Money Management Institute (MMI), the national association representing the $3.8 trillion managed investment solutions and wealth management industry, today released selected findings from a propr

The biggest individual financial gainers in 2014 were at one time entrepreneurial technology start-ups with one exception. Jack Ma tops the wealth gainers' ranking The individual who grew his wealth t

Chinese real estate mogul Wang Jianlin trails Jack Ma, executive chairman of Alibaba, and Hong Kong's Li Ka-shing among Asia's wealthiest, with the three controlling a combined fortune of US$81.5 billion (S$107 billion), according to Bloomberg on Wednesday.
The 60-year-old, beating India's richest person Mukesh Ambani, became Asia's third-richest person, as he prepares to sell shares of the country's biggest commercial property developer in an initial public offering.

Among the tech elite, it was a good year for Jack Ma, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. For Jeff Bezos, not so much.

In the past, I have covered many studies that look at the efficacy of game based learning. But a recent study from A-GAMES, a collaboration between New York University and the University of Michigan, is significant because it looks at the way games impact the learning experience and the relationship [...]

James Cameron's Avatar defied the skeptics and became the highest-grossing film of all-time, but five-years later it is all-but-forgotten in the pop culture landscape. Today is the fifth anniversary of the theatrical release of James Cameron’s 3D action spectacular. Avatar earned rave reviews, went on to become by-far the highest-grossing movie of all time, [...]

Since it’s less than a week before Christmas, how can we not take a look at the leadership of George Bailey, the hero of the movie It’s A Wonderful Life played by Jimmy Stewart? If you don’t know the plot of this amazing movie, you have probably been living in banishment [...]

American cigar smokers anxiously flicked their lacquered lighters this morning when news broke that President Barack Obama would be easing the decades-old restrictions on Cuban travel and goods. Since 1962, Cuba's legendary cigars have been banned from the shelves of American tobacconists and many travelers have sadly handed over their duty-free smokes to border agents.

Mercedes-Benz set the starting price of the Maybach S-Class sedan at 134,100 euros ($166,700), including value-added tax, and began taking orders for the would-be challenger to Rolls-Royce and Bentley.

Some Vanguard investors have formed their own tribe around Vanguard's ultra-cheap mutual funds and the company's founder. Now they're getting together for a meeting of the minds.

These errors may seem familiar, but wealthy investors seem to overcome them.