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Bill Ackman Tops Wall Street's 10 Biggest Winners Of 2014 Billionaire hedge fund manager William Ackman leads the list of money men who had a great year in 2014. Read More > SHARE: WATCH VIDEO  This Female Entrepreneur’s Journey From Pakistan To Wall Street After starting a business as a teenager in Pakistan, CEO Shama Zehra brought her entrepreneurial verve to Wall Street where she launched Aligned Independent Investors. SHARE: End-Of-Year Homeowner Tax Tips: Consider These Smart Moves Before 2014 Ends With just over two weeks remaining in the year, income taxes may be the last thing on your mind. But property owners would be smart to check their to-do lists twice to make sure they get the maximum homeowner tax benefit from the IRS in 2015. Read More > SHARE: Study Gives 40 States Failing Grade On Access To Info About Quality Of Doctors Most states fail when it comes to providing publicly available information on the quality of their physicians, according to a new report.Read More > SHARE: You Can Now Control Your Nest Thermostat With Your Voice Google’s $3.2 billion acquisition of Nest earlier this year has given the smart thermostat maker plenty of cash to play around with -- including $555 million to acquire internet-connected security camera startup Dropcam. But we haven’t seen much else happen between the two companies publicly until today. Read More > SHARE: WATCH VIDEO  Nest Cofounder On Home Automation Matt Rogers, Nest Labs cofounder & VP of Engineering, speaks about the company's smart thermostat and how Apple-inspired technology is shaping home automation. SHARE: 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Is One Of The Most Feminist Films Of 2014 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' became not only one of the only major studio releases this year that focused on a female protagonist’s story, as well as arguably among the few such big-scale releases where the gender of the protagonist was irrelevant. Read More > SHARE: Over Half Of Americans Say CIA's Interrogation Practices Were Justified Despite the negative fallout following last week’s release of a Senate committee report detailing CIA torture, 51 percent of the American public say the agency’s  controversial interrogation methods were justified, according to a national survey conducted by the Pew Research Center.Read More > SHARE: