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Startups often don't play by the rules. But a wifi-enabled juicer may have been "trying to solve a problem that didn't exist."

Voice recognition technology is beginning to compete with typing. Would the end of typing change the business world forever?

In the early 20th century, the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce started marketing L.A as an earthquake-free alternative to San Francisco.

Researchers performed an experiment that suggested demanding a culture of meritocracy can be a dangerous way to try to reduce unfair practices.

The first modern bicycles were for adults. Ads for boys’ bikes drew from, and fed into, a changing vision of boyhood during World War I.

Failure is in fashion, but this isn't some new passing trend. How universities and the medical profession have embraced the idea of "failing better."

The July 30, 1975, disappearance of labor leader Jimmy Hoffa sparked public fascination because he was an important cog in the nation's economy.

Summer jobs for teens are becoming a thing of the past, but considering these beet farm jobs, maybe we shouldn't romanticize them too much.

Some of the first precedent-setting sexual harassment cases were filed by women who were African-American, working class, or both

P.T. Barnum, born July 5, 1810, was "the first great advertising genius and the greatest publicity exploiter the world has ever known."

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