NEW YORK -- When historians tell the story of the Oil Bust of 2014, Wells Fargo & Co. analyst James Spicer will surely merit a footnote for his rewrite of Gloria Gaynor's disco anthem "I Will Survive."

Children today who track Santa's travels from the North Pole around the world on Christmas Eve through NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) have a 1955 Sears Roebuck misprint to thank.

A Vermont T-shirt maker has been granted a trademark for the phrase "Eat More Kale," a decision the state's governor on Friday hailed as a victory for "the little guy" over a "corporate bully."

LOS ANGELES — Funny or Die, the comedy website founded by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy, hired a financial adviser to evaluate options including a possible sale, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Reynolds American Inc., the second-largest U.S. tobacco producer, recognizes the irony in its new policy of banning smoking at its corporate offices.

First, it created nauseating holiday pants.

Late last year, a Belgian chocolate maker changed its name from Italo Suisse, because the company no longer had any real association with either country. Now it's changing the name again - because the new name it picked was ISIS.

Yahoo News is reporting: A Chinese woman recently dumped by her boyfriend spent a week in a KFC eating chicken wings.

It may be the only time you will find these words in the same sentence: "Ebola" and "Add to Wishlist."

President Obama revealed on Friday that his credit card was declined at a restaurant in New York City while he was in town for the U.N. General Assembly.

Ben Bernanke said the mortgage market is so tight that even he is having a hard time refinancing his home loan.

A good Wi-Fi network is hard to find, but six Londoners were willing to pay the ultimate price — based on the Terms and Conditions they agreed to, anyway.

It's Mad Men's Christina Hendricks first day in a modern office and it seems despite the infusion of modern technology, some things haven't changed. 

Starbucks spelled your name wrong? Here's a look into the reason why -- at least for this comedian. Warning: This video contains language that shouldn't be used over morning coffee.

A Chicago office worker whose phone number was listed on a Burger King website as a contact for a local restaurant decided to have some fun with the situation, pranking the customers and employees that call.

CNN Money is reporting: Just 13.8 percent of American families held individual stocks companies, compared to nearly 18% in 2007 before the market meltdown. It was 21.2 percent in 2001. The percentage of American households that have one ore more cats? 30 percent, according to the American...

Hershey Co. unveiled new corporate branding Friday, including a new logo with a Hershey's kiss that was unpoopular with many Internet commenters.

A new app for the iPad aims to recreate the nostalgic sense of typing on a manual typewriter, but ramped up to meet the demands of digital-age word processing.

Elizabeth Arden Inc reported its biggest ever quarterly loss due to a steep fall in sales of celebrity perfumes, particularly the Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift brands, sending its shares plunging as much as 25 percent.

Chicago-based United Airlines is rolling out a new inflight safety video aimed at getting passengers’ attention back on course.

LOS ANGELES — Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur who runs Tesla Motors and Space Exploration Technologies, takes on the miserly power plant owner Montgomery Burns in a future episode of "The Simpsons."

The Toronto Star is reporting: A hot fashion item this summer on Ontario First Nations’ reserves is a T-shirt with the lettering “Caucasians” and the grinning logo of Chief Wahoo, the much-derided mascot of the Cleveland Indians major league baseball team.

See our story on the Exelon/Integrys deal that pulls Chicago electricity customers back under the Exelon umbrella at http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/

The Onion is reporting: McDonald’s custodian Kevin Daniels expressed his sincere thanks Wednesday to every customer who has thrown a half-filled cup of soda into any of his workplace’s eight trash receptacles.

Supporters of Venezuela's late socialist leader Hugo Chavez on Monday unveiled yet another novel way of keeping his memory alive - a font for typing in "El Comandante's" handwriting style.

This is Happy, and he's ... well, he's interesting. We'll let the Twitter comments speak for themselves. Note that several of them are in all caps. We didn't do that. Happy did. By Scott Kleinberg, Chicago Tribune Social Media Editor

"Look, we're a technology company but we draw the line at creating autonomous robots that buzz by your house, wake up your sleeping babies and, who knows, takes pictures of you in the shower."

He disagrees with Twitter's verification system, so we talked about it

On Monday, US Airways sent a response to a customer that contained a pornographic image. Although the company apologized, some are calling it most offensive tweet ever from a business. And while many of the reactions are just as NSFW as the photo, here are some of the funny ones we've...

Groupon is honoring Presidents Day by giving customers an Alexander Hamilton --  $10 off $40 spent on a deal for any local business.