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For anyone who watched the recent speeches by U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Hu Jintao at the United Nations, the difference between the character of their content was remarkable. Obama failed to give specific promises on just about anything. Instead, he boasted that his stimulus...

The credit score and credit report blog SpendOnLife.com took an in-depth look at the credit scores of the five richest and five poorest neighborhoods by income to find out what separates the swank from the slum. In the same feature it also ranked each state by average credit score, so you can see...

Dell Inc. (DELL) agreed to pay a 68 percent premium for Perot Systems Corp. (PER) in a $3.9 billion acquisition announced today. That's a shockingly high figure in a stock market that has run up enormously. What's more, Dell paid cash, $30 per share, a step that means all the risk in the deal is...

I wrote a post the other day about how, after talking to loads of Facebook advertisers, the social networking giant appeared to be morphing into a threat to paid search giant Google (GOOG). I recently had a long chat with Facebook's Director of Monetization Tim Kendall. He's one of the key guys in...

On his "Mad Money" show on September 16, Jim Cramer went nuts on Apple (AAPL), saying he thinks shares are going to soar after an accounting change lets Apple book the full dollar amount of each iPhone sold upfront. This has been a recurrent theme among Apple bulls lately. Wall Street has a funny...

Getting laid off is devastating, and being without health insurance can be almost as devastating. The two, unfortunately, often go together. WalletPop writers Aaron Crowe and Jennie Phipps discuss in this podcast how the unemployed, and freelancers, can afford health insurance. One method --...

With ABC, NBC and Fox all distributing their programming online through Hulu, it'd be awfully nice for viewers were CBS to throw in its shows as well, turning the site into a true one-stop destination for network TV. It doesn't sound like that's going to happen anytime soon, though. "Frankly, it's...

Not too long ago green energy activists hailed geothermal power as the best way to generate cheap, clean power with minimal environmental impact or carbon emissions. That view has been thoroughly shaken by incidents around deep-drilling geothermal projects linked to nearby earthquakes. Now energy...

It was a year ago this week that the federal government seized ailing mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE). Their collapse, it was feared, could imperil the entire financial system. The takeover wasn't meant to be permanent, but a new congressional report illustrates why...

The buzz around the Web this week is that video streaming giant YouTube is in talks with movie studios to start renting movies in the near future. Even though YouTube isn't known so much for video quality as it is video quantity it could provide an exciting new ability to consumers. If YouTube...