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If you're a parent of a certain age, your kids' homework can be confounding. Blame it on changes in the way children are taught math these days — which can make you feel like you're not very good with numbers.

The U.S. housing industry has yet to recover from the last recession, but you wouldn't know that by looking at rising home prices in California's still-prosperous Silicon Valley. By being conservative with his ventures, James Witt has made a successful business out of rebuilding Palo Alto homes.

Years after leaving his home in northern India, journalist Siddhartha Deb returned to explore the true impact of globalization on his homeland. In The Beautiful and the Damned, Deb exposes the darker side of Indian prosperity.

Would Twitter have succeeded if it had been called Twitch, as it first considered? When it comes to naming your business, there's a lot at stake. A company name is how it connects with consumers, investors and other businesses.

Yahoo is rejecting an unsolicited $44.6 billion offer from Microsoft. But it remains to be seen whether Yahoo shareholders will support a management decision to snub the software giant's bid.

Microsoft says its net income rose 51 percent in the most recent quarter, boosted by higher sales of Windows and Office software. If it had not deferred some revenues last year, the latest profit number would have been only 16 percent higher.

More than 3,100 companies flocked to the Consumer Electronics Show to hawk their wares this year, and the show's host estimates that 20,000 products are launched there. Many of the small companies founded for the show won't be back next year, but their hustle is infectious and some become huge.

Some 2400 expecting and new moms in San Diego have signed up for a free service that sends out text messages with health tips and resources.

A security breach of the internet marketing firm Epsilon's files has put millions of people at risk for identity teft. There are a few simple rules to follow that will almost certainly prevent you from becoming a cyber attack victim according to our phishing expert, Randy Abrams. Find out how to protect yourself.

Jack Rickard and Brian Noto have developed something of a cult following on their webcast in which they talk in soul-crushing detail about the intricacies of how to gut a gas-guzzling road warrior and convert it into an all-electric vehicle. On Wednesday, they host the Electric Vehicle Conversion Convention at the Cape Girardeau airport.