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Cheryl Knauer has a restaurant gift card in mind for her in-laws, a massage gift card planned for another family member and intends to pick up cards in smaller dollar amounts to Chick-fil-A and Starbucks for kids' stockings and teachers' gifts. The...

Yahoo has added former PayPal executive Max Levchin to its board in a bold move that makes it clearer than ever the Internet pioneer is returning to its roots as a technology company under its new Chief Executive Marissa Mayer. Brad Smith, chief...

A 37-year-old New York woman accused of pretending to be related to a young victim of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings and of seeking donations through Facebook was arraigned Thursday at federal court on charges of lying to a federal agent....

New Britain Mayor Tim O'Brien chose Christmas Eve to quietly announce the cash-strapped city would use $100,000 from the mayor's legal-defense fund to hire a high-power PR firm to promote a bill that would fine the landlords of properties that rack up...

Billionaire entrepreneur and inventor Elon Musk has bought a mansion in Bel-Air for $17 million. Built in 1990 and remodeled with entertaining in mind, the 20,248-square-foot manse features a two-story library, a theater, a library/study, a wine cellar,...

On Friday, 13-year-old Allison Anderson could only think of her three young siblings while learning the news out of Newtown," according to her mother Camella Mollica. When the family was discussing the tragedy, Allison's 6-year-old brother, Frankie...

For the last dozen years, Vince Talbert has focused on one thing: Bill Me Later. The 45-year-old Baltimore native co-founded the online payment company with three partners in 2000. The company helps Internet shoppers buy stuff online without a credit...

Jodi Brougher let her guard down for one moment while checking her email.   She clicked on a link that appeared to be from Yahoo asking her to verify her email address. She was skeptical but did not want to be without email around the holidays since...

Two years ago in December, Visa, MasterCard and PayPal cut off all financial services to WikiLeaks. This left the controversial website blocked off from accepting online donations — a state of affairs that did not sit well with members of the...

If the heartbreaking school shooting in Newtown, Conn., has left you feeling helpless, you may be inclined to donate to help the community recover. As with any national tragedy, you must proceed cautiously because con artists concoct sob stories designed...

John Ragan concedes that he is neither computer-savvy nor very much interested in using the Internet. "I'm not an Internet-surfing kind of guy," the 30-year-old carpenter said recently. But it was his occasional foray onto MarylandWhitetail.com that...

When celebrity couple Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds were wed in a secret ceremony this year, the actors skipped the splashy Hollywood venue. Instead, their reported 17th-century location in South Carolina boasted an onsite mansion, gardens and a working...