Jeff Bezos has made headlines around the globe as the richest man in the world-and the first to top a Forbes list with a net worth over $100 billion. As of Thursday, he's worth nearly $156 billion. That's thanks to Amazon's sky-rocketing stock and a worldwide shift toward buying more things online. But the heirs of Walmart founder Sam Walton together are...

There were 18,000 commercial banks and savings institutions in the U.S. in the mid-1980s, but 35 years of massive consolidation and nearly 3,000 bank failures have cut the total by 70%. With the proliferation of online banks, it is even more important for local banks to demonstrate their advantages in regards to customer service, accessibility and financial advice. With this in mind...

Nine-figure health claims are becoming the norm rather than the exception. In fact, the number of million-dollar-plus medical claims has risen 87% in the past four years, according to Sun Life Financial's 2018 High-Cost Claims Report. The Sun Life report analyzed self-insured plans, but the trend affects plans of all stripes...

Heads up: Poor contracting could be costing you thousands - or even millions - each year. So asserts Praful Saklani, CEO of Pramata, a tech company with the first B2B app to digitize the data trapped in contracts and business systems. There's plenty of it trapped. On average 3%-5% of a company's revenue is leaked annually due to errors and process gaps. That's too high a price for any business to pay. Fortunately...

For some rogue staffers, lifting office supplies or seeking reimbursement on a few minor "non-business related" charges is mere child's play. Here are seven of the most over-the-top examples that we could find of in-house theft and employee fraud...

When the High Court ruled in favor of a baker who refused to put together a wedding cake for a same-sex couple because of his religious beliefs, it made national news - and put employers everywhere in a tricky spot regarding free speech. It also left things pretty open-ended on the issue...

It's been more than a decade since Amazon launched Elastic Compute Cloud and forever changed how businesses consume compute resources. Over the years, the popularity of cloud computing has continued to grow. That's because...