Features By Sabri Ben-Achour
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Bitcoin: Digital coin of the realm in Internet age
Digital currency Bitcoin has grown sensationally, with 11 million Bitcoins worth nearly $2 billion in circulation. It's the ultimate Internet-age currency: Bitcoin circulates only online, trades anonymously and isn't regulated by any government.
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What you need to know to run a marathon at the North Pole
Four dozen trekked to the North Pole in a marathon that costs more than $15,000 to run in. Feel like taking a run on a polar ice floe? Here's what you need to know about the race.
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Long-term unemployment gets...longer
Even as the U.S. economy is adding jobs, nearly five million people have been out of work for at least six months, and figures show their wait to return to the workforce is growing.
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Mark Zuckerberg's money lays path for change in Newark schools
Most of the $100 million donation has been spent on brokering a new teachers contract that creates performance-based pay and opening new schools.
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Mayor Bloomberg's wealth holds lessons for politics
As a multi-billionaire, Michael Bloomberg has governed New York free from debts to special interests. But there's another side to that independence.
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The Statue of Liberty Mutual
The sequester and other coming government cuts have led the federal government to sell naming rights to monuments and national parks.
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Apple joins race for indoor mapping technology
Apple's purchase of an indoor mapping startup shows the competition for technology to help people navigate inside airports and stores -- as well as let marketers track consumers more closely.
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A tax on medical devices that almost nobody likes
You don't often hear about a 79-to-20 vote in the U.S. Senate, but that's exactly what happened last night. The chamber voted overwhelmingly to repeal a tax on medical devices.
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YouTube hits a billion
YouTube announced that it’s reached a billion viewers per month, putting in the same league as its parent company Google and Facebook.
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Federal Reserve meets, considers future of quantitative easing
The Federal Reserve is finishing up a meeting today in Washington, to which many economists and investors are looking for signs of just how long the central bank intends to keep up its aggressive monetary easing.
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