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Backed with $8.6 million in seed funding, New York-based Pluto Financial Technologies has launched an AI-powered lending platform for private markets. The platform is designed to enable investors in ...

The post-holiday period represents a curious moment in retail psychology, when consumers simultaneously experience gift-receiving satisfaction and the lingering presence of holiday cash or gift cards ...

There are many film versions of the holiday classic, "A Christmas Carol." The novel, "A Christmas Carol" was written by Charles Dickens, and was released in 1843. The novel depicts how the ...

Write your lists and check them twice — most grocery stores will be closed Dec. 25 in observance of Christmas and will operate with limited hours on Christmas Eve. Save yourself the hassle (and the ...

In the Biblical account of the first Christmas, a young couple named Mary and Joseph became engaged. In their Jewish culture, that was like a contract between the two families. The entire neighborhood ...

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

Very few movies reflected agony, anticipation and joy of the Christmas season in a child's eyes than "A Christmas Story." The movies has become a Christmas tradition as much as "It's A Wonderful Life" ...

Astronomers have discovered 2017 OF21, a mysterious dwarf planet in the solar system's frozen outskirts. This video explores this distant exile, which takes 25,000 years to orbit the Sun and travels ...

Can Nick, Joe and Kevin get back home from Europe in time for Christmas via planes, trains and automobiles? The reason the Jonases have shown up is that they want to hitch a Christmas ride home on ...