Features By Sabri Ben-Achour
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Tweeting your firing: The rise of announcing your professional demise
Terminated employees used to go quietly. But Twitter is becoming a popular site for announcing one's own professional demise. Is that a good thing?
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Is reality TV running out of steam?
Today Dutch group Mars One is set to announce details about its plan to fund a human colony on Mars -- by turning the process into a reality TV show. Is the once fast-growing, profitable reality TV machine -- here on Earth -- sputtering?
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Like Shamu, SeaWorld leaps after IPO: Why theme parks are doing well
SeaWorld Entertainment, home of famous orca Shamu, wowed investors in a big IPO. Amid concern about consumer spending in a slow, fragile economic recovery, theme parks are doing surprisingly well. Why?
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As PC sales fall, supercomputers soar
Supercomputing are in hot demand. But not just from governments and large companies. Smaller businesses facing complex challenges are seeking some of the faster computers in the world.
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Has Marissa Mayer's acquire-to-hire strategy for Yahoo paid off?
Since becoming Yahoo CEO last summer, Marissa Mayer has embarked on a takeover strategy: Buy companies to get their talent. As Yahoo reports earnings, we find out if it worked.
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McDonald's demands swifter service with a smile
McDonald’s faces rising complaints about unfriendly and slow service. So the burger reportedly plans to get employees to step on the accelerator and turn up the charm.
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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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