The Amazon.com Inc. founder’s net worth broke $150 billion in New York on Monday morning, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. That’s about $55 billion more than Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, the world’s second-richest person.

Banks are closing ATMs and branches in an attempt to ‘nudge’ consumers towards digital services, says campaigner and former broker Brett Scott.

America doesn’t have a jobs crisis. It has a ‘good jobs’ crisis – where too much employment is insecure, and poorly paid

The iPhone maker's value soars following better-than-expected quarterly results this week. Congratz, too bad I did not invest in it...

Are you struggling to get out of debt? Do you feel like you're in a never-ending cycle of debt due to interest? Follow these debt payoff tips to achieve financial success and a debt-free life!

Wells Fargo said it has set aside $8 million to compensate customers that were wrongly denied mortgage modifications.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has previously said the company pays its taxes properly.

Europe needs to set up payment systems independent of the United States if it wants to save the nuclear deal between Iran and major powers that was abandoned by President Donald Trump, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said.

The long read: MH Miller left university with a journal full of musings on Virginia Woolf and a vast financial burden. He is one of 44 million US graduates struggling to repay a total of $1.4tn. Were they right to believe their education was ‘priceless’?

Amplification through investment in Robinhood. Mistakes were made, I should have done more research.

The beginnings of another financial crisis are already in motion - and it will be worse than the global meltdown of 2008. That's the opinion of one of the select band of economists who predicted the 2008 economic collapse, which started with the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers bank a decade ago and ended up affecting every country in the world. Ann Pettifor predicted that crisis in 2006, more than two years before it actually struck.

Earlier this month, CNBC tracked down one of the first people to qualify for student debt cancellation under the public service loan forgiveness program, which allows certain not-for-profit and government employees to have their federal student loans scrubbed after 10 years of on-time payments. "I feel pretty lucky," Kevin Maier, a tenured professor at the University of Alaska Southeast, had said. He really should.

The accusation that loyal customers are being "ripped off" for mobile, broadband, savings, home insurance and mortgage deals is to be investigated by the competition body. It follows a super-complaint from Citizens Advice, which says customers who stick with their supplier are losing a total of £4.1bn a year. That amounts to an average of £877 per person, the charity said. It added that elderly and vulnerable people are disproportionately affected.

Musk tweet signals he has no intention of behaving himself in the future.

How low can Zynga's stock go? Below the total value of the cash it has on hand, the securities it owns, and the amount it paid in March for its San Francisco headquarters, according to J.P. Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth.

Kim Dotcom has started a new battle against US prosecutors and entertainment executives saying his new file sharing website is almost complete and it will be impossible for the US authorities to shut it down, like they did with Megaupload in January.

According to analysis and research firm, Ovum, it seems that the use of instant messaging platforms like iMessage, BBM, and Whatsapp has cost carriers an estimated loss of 17.7 billion Euros this year.

The point of shopping online is because it is possibly cheaper and more convenient, which is why we have to wonder what is the point of launching actual physical retail stores without any products in them.

Amazon knows what you’ve bought, and has a pretty good idea of what you might want to buy next.

Microsoft's about to release Surface, the most important product it's made since the Xbox. So why is it freaking out right now? Because it can't afford to lose another decade.

I had been near the Foxconn campus several times in the past six years but never past the entry gate. Today I was able to spend much of a day there seeing assembly lines, dormitories, cafeterias, recreation areas, and other parts of the site.

Every day, millions of people get sucked into handing over their credit card numbers for a free trial. After all, signing up for a free trial is simple and quick. Getting out of a free trial is another story, though.

Have you ever heard of a company called Luxottica? We hadn't until we watched a 60 Minutes segment about them recently.

For years, Connie and Daniel Roddy did all they could to support Livestrong, raising tens of thousands of dollars for the cancer charity founded by cyclist Lance Armstrong.

Nothing can go right for Detroit. Constant housing foreclosures make this ghost town feel more abandoned everyday.

Possibly trying to hide the grim news by announcing it during Apple’s event, we’ve just independently confirmed that Zynga has shut down its Boston office and laid off 2/3s of the employees in its Austin office, including cuts to The Ville and Bingo.

Trying to prevent merchants from hiking prices during disasters is futile and counterproductive.

A new tool, which is tentatively called Marketplace (borrowed from another deprecated Facebook app), would allow users to create short advertisements that appear in their friends’ news feeds notifying them of everything from apartment rentals to furniture sales to job boards.

The 105-storey hotel which dominates the skyline of the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, may open next year, 26 years after construction began.

Megaupload founder proposes free New Zealand broadband paid for by lawsuits over 'unlawful' destruction of his business

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving regarded as one of the biggest shopping days of the year, may be dramatically different this year. Organizers are planning a nationwide strike against Walmart, the largest retailer in the world, and are banking on a new strategy: online organizing.

When the tax money begins to roll in, and the savings of not prosecuting pot smokers begins to be realized, more states will legalize. And fast. The bottom line will do this. It's all about money and we're about to see a major shift.

A look at some of the strangest places that today's biggest video-game companies hailed from.

This is actually spot on and perfect, not just for games, but for all entertainment media. Most pirates aren't thieves, they're disgruntled consumers.

Google has held talks with satellite television provider Dish Network regarding the possibility of a venture that would see Google launch its own cellular network and compete directly with the likes of Verizon and AT&T.