So he asked me whether he'd be better off working at a big company or a startup (he noted that the latter seemed livelier).

Diversity advocate Laura Gómez raises largest seed funding round by a Latina founder in Silicon Valley: $2 million.

Alex Rappaport, 36, wants to get kids really excited about learning. He cofounded education startup Flocabulary more than 10 ...

Nicole Farb cofounded Darby Smart to make it easy for people to buy and sell kits like these. There are more than 7 million ...

Typically you need to wait until you reach retirement age to start taking money out of a cash-balance plan. However, unlike a traditional pension plan, a cash-balance plan is portable. That means ...

From a single store in Rogers, Ark., in 1962., to more than 4,300 Wal-Mart and Sam's Club outlets today, see how the world's No. 1 retailer has expanded across the U.S., in this visualization by ...

There are two basic types of annuities: deferred and immediate. With a deferred annuity, your money is invested for a period of time until you are ready to begin taking withdrawals, typically in ...

For this calculator, we define middle class as two-thirds to two times median income for the county. In counties where two-thirds of median income would fall close to the poverty line, we set the ...

After filing a Freedom of Information Act request with the Department of Labor, the agency provided CNNMoney with so-called EEO-1 Employer Information Reports for Cisco, Dell, eBay, Ingram Micro ...

A series of court records illustrate how Justin Strom and the members of his "Underground Gangster Crips" in Alexandra, Va., used social networks like Facebook and MySpace to contact teenagers ...

Not very. The percentage of workers in the private sector whose only retirement account is a defined benefit pension plan is now 4%, down from 60% in the early 1980s. About 14% of companies offer ...