The sense of security is just as important Beyond cost savings, homeowners cite protection (56%), peace of mind and safety (55%), and mobile control (39%) as top benefits of adopting smart tech.

Lisa Ling, an award-winning journalist and producer, is a CBS News contributor, where she brings her distinctive reporting and feature pieces across CBS News broadcasts and platforms. Analisa Novak is ...

Big companies from Microsoft to Paramount and NBCUniversal are ordering workers to show up to the office more often. If only their staffs would heed the call. Even as corporate bosses cut back on ...

Self-checkout systems have been a significant convenience for many shoppers, allowing them to avoid longer wait times commonly found at traditional checkout lines with cashiers. However, those who are ...

Afghanistan is in the midst of a communications blackout, just weeks after Taliban authorities began severing fiber optic connections in multiple provinces, in what appears to be the Islamist regime's ...

WASHINGTON — Starbucks announced Thursday it's closing hundreds of stores in the U.S., Canada and Europe. The Seattle-based coffee giant said store closures would start immediately. The company wouldn ...

Amazon announced Wednesday the launch of Amazon Grocery, a new private-label brand that merges popular items from Amazon Fresh and Happy Belly into one "grocery essentials" collection. The retail ...

Starbucks plans to cut another 900 corporate jobs and close some of its stores in the U.S. and Canada, as the coffee chain approaches the one-year mark of its turnaround plan. The company says the ...

Luxury homeowners who kept buying and selling real estate even as the overall housing market contracted in recent years are slowing their roll. The number of luxury-home sales nationwide dropped 0.7% ...

The shutdown came two weeks after the ruling Taliban cut off the internet in half a dozen provinces, saying they wanted to prevent “immoral acts.” By Elian Peltier Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan ...

Cracker Barrel will be shutting down locations of a secondary brand across America after their dramatic public fallout earlier this year. MSN is reporting that Cracker Barrel will be closing 14 of ...