U.S. stocks were in the black Thursday but gains were...

Holocaust survivors and the families in the US have objected strongly to a French Railway bid for high-Speed tracks in Florida, which will eventually connect Tampa and...

Apple has come up with a new iPod nano with a multi-touch...

Talks with potential buyers have reportedly been held by Burger King, the American fast food...

American Airlines, British Airways and Iberia have been discussing how they will work together now that European regulators have allowed them to...

The former chief of Lehman Brothers, Richard S. Fuld Jr, has told a panel investigating the financial crisis that the large Wall Street firm could have been helped to stay afloat by the US...

Dairy farmer Anthony Marco was compressing a long row of chopped hay beneath his tractor two weeks ago, preparing it as winter feed for his cows, when the 4-ton machine suddenly toppled over as he...

DES MOINES, Iowa -- U.S. Agriculture Department employees worked full-time at two Iowa egg farms at the center of a salmonella outbreak and massive recall, but two former workers said they ignored...

LONDON -- BP says it has so far spent $8 billion responding to the disastrous oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.The company said Friday that the total included $399 million paid to settle...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- The reclusive New Zealand billionaire buying the U.S. maker of Hefty brand trash bags to create the world's second-biggest packaging business started out as a tow truck...

TOKYO -- Most Asian stock markets climbed Friday as investors took heart from a slight improvement in U.S. economic indicators amid lingering worries over the pace of the global economic...

MEXICO CITY -- President Felipe Calderon tried to rally frustrated Mexicans behind his increasingly bloody drug war Thursday, saying he knows violence has surged under his watch, but arguing that it...

BOSTON -- A fatal explosion at a Massachusetts condominium project has led the state attorney general to investigate the delivery of faulty propane to locations across New England and New...

Here are some differences between the Deepwater Horizon rig disaster April 20 and the oil production platform explosion Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico:TYPES OF STRUCTURES- Deepwater Horizon, owned by...

Hurricane Earl raked North Carolina's barrier islands with gusting winds, pounding surf and rain Thursday as it took a swipe at the U.S. East Coast on an offshore path toward New England and...

Even if the US and European economies manage to avoid a double dip, it will still feel like a recession, while more than half of the 800-plus US banks on the "critical list" are likely to go bust,...

Singapore, Sept 3, 2010 - (ACN Newswire) - Microsoft Advertising has teamed up with Spikes Asia, Asia Pacific's leading creative advertising and communications awards, as a key partner of the...

Verizon Wireless started selling smart phones for prepaid customers on Thursday, tapping into a market considered to be the domain of low-end...

Speaking before a panel investigating the Wall Street meltdown, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said regulators must be prepared to close even the biggest banks and companies if...

/enpproperty--> BEIJING - The value of China's currency Renminbi (RMB) weakened against the US dollar Tuesday as the central parity rate of the yuan was set at 6.8105 per US dollar, compared with the...

Investors and traders in China’s main financial district in Shanghai are talking about the following before the start of trade today: Ma Jiantang, the head of the National Bureau of Statistics,...

* Shares of Take Two Interactive jumped more than 13% in late trading after the video game maker beat the street, posting a profit thanks to strong sales of its “Red Dead Redemption”...

In speaking with several industry colleagues, we had the feeling that the agendas of the upcoming airport conferences this fall seem to have a common theme. Many sessions are devoted to the creation...

Hardly. Economies such as China's and India's are growing fast, but they are still much too small to pull giants such as the United States or Europe out of a swamp, say most...

DENVER -- An appellate court ruled that ClearOne Communications Inc.'s agreement to pay attorneys fees for its former CEO came with conditions, including that she not break the law.The 10th U.S....

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Pier 1 Imports Inc. said Thursday its second-quarter sales rose 8 percent year-over-year as more customers shopped in its stores and the retailer enticed more browsers to buy...

Image via Wikipedia While the world watched Steve Jobs unveil the new AppleTV Wednesday, the geeks at iFixit were busy taking the lid off something very different, the Atari...

you may see a cartoon animation of a crafty-looking 3-D animated Eric Schmidt, chief executive of Google, luring little children from an ice cream truck in attempt to cajole secrets out of them....

In my view a board of directors of a huge financial institution is derelict if it does not insist that its CEO bear full responsibility for risk control. If he’s incapable of handling that job, he...

Image via Wikipedia How’s this for a way to kick off the Labor Day Weekend:  Hurricane Earl is uprooting many Easterners’ holiday plans, and Friday’s jobs report is likely to...

Image by Getty Images via @daylife The BCS is fixed.  No, not as in repaired. Playoff PAC, which bills itself as the principal opposition to the BCS...

Nass' book examines what gadgets reveal about human relations Most people want their cellphones to transmit their voices as clearly as possible. But what if your phone could alter your voice to...

It was a big week for economic data, and the technology and restaurant chain sectors were abuzz with merger and acquistion news. On Monday, the Commerce Department said consumer spending increased...

  ] ended up 1.2%, to $39.68 a piece. The deal has been approved by both companies' boards and is expected to be completed by the end of the year. "As part of HP, 3Par's ... storage solutions will...

The weak US economy got a little lift overnight with new data suggesting companies aren't pursuing mass layoffs and stores are a little busier.New applications for unemployment benefits declined for...

TORONTO -- The head of a major Canadian pension fund says a Chinese sovereign wealth fund is interested in making a joint-bid with a Canadian pension fund for fertilizer-maker Potash Corp. of...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland -- Iceland's government began considering on Thursday a bid by a private military training company to base a fleet of fighter jets at an ex-U.S. air base for hired war game...

MIAMI -- Federal authorities have lifted a fishing ban in part of the northern Gulf of Mexico from the Florida Panhandle to the far eastern coast of Louisiana.National Oceanic and Atmospheric...

TORONTO -- A fuel tanker carrying supplies for Arctic communities has run aground in the Northwest Passage but no diesel is leaking, the Canadian Coast Guard said Thursday.Larry Trigatti, the...

NEW YORK -- Total money market mutual fund assets fell by $6.22 billion to $2.827 trillion for the week, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.Assets of the nation's retail money market...

PHILADELPHIA -- Sunoco Inc. has tapped former General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson to lead the energy spin-off it is forming early next year.Henderson, 52, is joining Pittsburgh-based Sunoco as a...

ANOTHER LIFT: Stocks gained again on Thursday, though not as much as the day before, on the latest hopeful indicators on the economy.BETTER NEWS: There was moderately better news on home sales,...

WASHINGTON, N.C. -- An eastern North Carolina daily newspaper has completed details of its sale to an Alabama-based company.The Washington Daily News announced Thursday that the newly formed...

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -- A small plane that crashed into a lagoon off San Francisco Bay, killing a woman, belongs to the founder of a local steel company who is also feared dead.An employee of R.E....

If the crisis of having a body is that it’s resistant to our will, soccer exaggerates the crisis, moves what you want to do even further away from what you can do, then gives us athletes who do...

state of the economy is forcing American consumers to think hard about their buying choices. And the auto industry, including the hybrid market, is being hit...

I have traveled to the rugged mountainous countryside near the eastern Turkish city of Van not far from the Iranian border. I came with Turkish journalist friends to witness their attempts to...

U.S. mobile data usage is expected to increase by 4,000% in the next four years. U.S. broadband connection speed, however, is ranked a mere 18th in the world. These numbers, combined with already...

Columbia law professor Tim Wu published a paper in 2003 using the term "network neutrality" to describe various notions of non-preferential or equal treatment for Internet traffic. Whether in homage...

I observed my father interacting with his customers and his approach to relationship selling. It put a different view on sales in my mind. Although I hadn't chosen to be a salesperson or to rise to...