You can now trade in your Android for an iPhone at Apple Stores

You can now trade in your non-iPhone smartphone at an Apple (AAPL, Tech30) Store for a credit toward a new iPhone. Previously, Apple only accepted iPhones as trade-ins. Only "select" phones are available for the deal, and you can only get a credit...

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Russia's Gazprom: Profits plunge 70%

Russian energy giant Gazprom has been hit by Moscow's conflict with Kiev. Gazprom (OGZPY), the world's biggest gas producer, saw its net profit fall 70% to 189 billion rubles ($3.3 billion) in 2014. The weak ruble was a big reason. The profit...

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Toyota's Rav4 gets cheap automatic braking

The company is cutting the price of automatic braking and other crash-avoidance options, a move that could greatly increase the availability of the safety features. Toyota is offering it on the Rav4, one of its top selling models. It expects to have...

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Now might be the time to buy Russia. Yes, really.

The oil-dependent economy is on track for a deep recession this year, and there's a risk that the West may impose more sanctions over Ukraine. Yet Russia's stock market, currency and bonds are all bouncing higher. After a horror year that saw...

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Carly Fiorina: Now a 90% chance I'll run for president in 2016

Carly Fiorina told CNN in February the chances she would run were "way over 50%." Now she says they are "higher than 90%." In an interview with "Fox News Sunday," Fiorina said the chances of her joining an already crowded field of presidential...

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5 travel spots that just got cheaper for Americans

Much of the world is on sale for Americans right now since the U.S. dollar is enjoying one of the strongest moments in modern history. Just about everything from hotels to luxury handbags to McDonald's hamburgers is cheaper abroad than in the United...

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The U.S. economy is showing cracks

The U.S. job market had its best year of gains last year since 1999, and economic activity hit a whopping 5% in the third quarter -- the best quarter since 2003. Three months later, the U.S. economy is looking a little tired. It's losing momentum...

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'Things will not change' after sex bias verdict without push

Ellen Pao lost her sex bias suit against prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers on Friday when a San Francisco jury ruled that the firm did not discriminate against her. Pao, a former junior partner...

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Indiana backlash: Opposition to anti-gay law grows

CEO Bill Oesterle announced Saturday that the company had put its proposed campus expansion project in Indianapolis "on hold" following the passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Angie's List, a business-rating website, was expected to...

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'Ask SeaWorld' marketing campaign backfires

So when it solicited questions about its animal care online as part of a new marketing campaign this week, it seemed to fuel critics rather than dissuade them. SeaWorld (SEAS) came under fire for its treatment of killer whales when the documentary...

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Google strikes back at Wall Street Journal - with a laughing baby

And this was no standard response. Google (GOOGL, Tech30) used playful animated GIFs to make seething points directed at the Journal and its parent company News Corp. Here's the back story. In 2013, the Federal Trade Commission decided not to...

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Pebble Time Kickstarter project raised $20.3 million

It broke its first record on its first day, when it became the fastest project to raise $1 million -- in 49 minutes. A week later, it became the most-funded campaign in Kickstarter's history after receiving more than $13.3 million in pledges, besting...

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Germanwings crash forces change in cockpit rules

Prosecutors believe the co-pilot of the Airbus A320 locked the captain out of the cockpit before deliberately crashing the plane into the French Alps. The U.S. and Ireland already had rules before Tuesday's crash requiring their airlines to have two...

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For BlackBerry, a surprise profit

BlackBerry's sales plunged 32% to $660 million for the three months that ended in February. That was well below Wall Street's estimates of $786 million and is the lowest level of sales for the company since the middle of 2006. The company did report...

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Google's new CFO and her $70 million pay package

Ruth Porat will become Google's new chief financial officer in May. Ruth Porat, formerly the CFO of Morgan Stanley, received a $70 million-plus cash and stock deal from Google for making the transition from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Porat's...

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Meet the sisters who shattered the CEO glass ceiling

Growing up in the 1960s, their dad believed someday the world would open up for women -- and he wanted them to be ready for that. Boy were they ready. After climbing the corporate ladder at Procter & Gamble (PG), Denise Morrison became CEO of...

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This startup could help thwart school bombings

That's what startup PredictifyMe is banking on. Last week, the analytics company partnered with the United Nations in an initiative to protect schools in Pakistan, Nigeria and Lebanon against bombing attacks. "Parents in these countries are afraid...

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Stocks: 4 things to know before the open

Stock markets are falling, oil prices are surging and Saudi Arabia is launching airstrikes in neighboring Yemen. Here are the four things you need to know before the opening bell rings in New York: 1. Saudi Arabia acts, markets react: The world's...

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Stocks: 5 things to know before the open

Here are the five things you need to know before the opening bell rings in New York: 1. Feeding frenzy: Shares in Kraft (KRFT) have shot up by about 18% premarket after it announced plans to combine with Heinz to create a food giant called The Kraft...

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Two plane crash victims worked at auto parts maker Delphi

Delphi confirmed that Rogrio Ofitialdegui, 62, and Manuel Rives Salinas, 51, were traveling for work from their plant in Spain to a Delphi office in Germany. "Our deepest condolences go to the victims and their families of this tragic accident," said...

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You're about to get a new credit card ... and it's an epic failure

New credit cards are coming, and they won't even be that great. It looks like 2015 will be a bumpy road for everybody -- banks, stores and shoppers. Today's magnetic stripe cards will be replaced by fraud-proof smart cards with computer chips....

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Ohio may legalize pot this year

A group is gathering signatures to amend the state's constitution so that Ohioans can legally consume marijuana for medical and recreational use. The group, called ResponsibleOhio, needs to collect more than 300,000 signatures to put the amendment...

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Aston Martin unveils its future

Andy Palmer, the automaker's new chief executive, wants to get the car maker back on solid ground for good. A vital piece of the puzzle is the company's deal with Germany's Daimler (DDAIF), the parent company of Mercedes-Benz and Smart, which owns...

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Crashed Germanwings 9525 operated by Lufthansa's budget airline

Germanwings was founded in 2002 as a low-cost airline to meet the challenge of domestic rivals such as Air Berlin, and Ryanair (RYAOF)and EasyJet (ESYJY) on regional routes. It became a wholly-owned Lufthansa (DLAKF) subsidiary in 2009. Lufthansa...

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Living with mom and dad after college is actually smart

Wow, Kelly. That's a question I don't hear often from millennials. Your generation is twice as likely to be living at home with mom and dad than shopping for real estate. In fact you've been out of the home-buying game since the Crash of 2008. Only...

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5 biggest student loan mistakes

I hear your frustration, Chris. Many of you worry that all that borrowed money chasing after ever-more expensive tuition prices is simply a bubble ready to pop -- just like the real estate bubble a few years ago. It's a perfectly legitimate fear....

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Millennials: You have an image problem

If you're a millennial and looking for a job, you already have a reputation. And it's not a good one. It may be undeserved, but hiring managers assume you're straight out of an episode of "Girls." Translation: you have an exaggerated self-worth, an...

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Millennials: More educated, fewer employed than Gen X

Today's young adults are on track to becoming the most educated generation to date, according to new data from the Pew Research Center. More Millennial women, in particular, are securing their diplomas than their older sisters, mothers and grandmothers....

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Employers aren't really cutting health benefits

Under Obamacare rules that kicked in this year, large employers have to offer health benefits to workers who put in 30 or more hours a week or face penalties. Some fretted that the new rules would cost employers a bundle or prompt them to cut workers'...

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The $10 bill is up next for a new look

While one advocacy group is calling on the government to replace President Jackson with a woman on the $20 bill, it's actually the $10 note that's up next for a redesign. A new $10 bill is on track to enter circulation in 2020, a Treasury Department...

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Millennials: More educated, fewer employed than Gen X

Today's young adults are on track to becoming the most educated generation to date, according to new data from the Pew Research Center. More Millennial women, in particular, are securing their diplomas than their older sisters, mothers and grandmothers....

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Employers aren't really cutting health benefits

Under Obamacare rules that kicked in this year, large employers have to offer health benefits to workers who put in 30 or more hours a week or face penalties. Some fretted that the new rules would cost employers a bundle or prompt them to cut workers'...

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The $10 bill is up next for a new look

While one advocacy group is calling on the government to replace President Jackson with a woman on the $20 bill, it's actually the $10 note that's up next for a redesign. A new $10 bill is on track to enter circulation in 2020, a Treasury Department...

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Smart clothes: The next big fitness craze?

Fitness devices are moving from wristbands into clothes and shoes, like this "smart shoe" from Lechal. Clothes or shoes fitted with fitness devices are set for explosive growth as they move from the test lab into professional athletics. Keen amateurs...

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