COMPANIES

Google will team with German auto parts manufacturer Continental AG and IBM for a self-driving car project, a German newspaper reports.

Joining the trinity of American pony cars is a convertible version of this high-speed classic.

Pandora Media Inc. (P), Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (MRVL), Aeropostale Inc. (ARO), and The Gap Inc. (GPS) report earnings on Thursday.

With the Frankfurt auto show a month away, BMW shows off a concept plug-in hybrid version of its X5 SUV.

The Scottish Whisky -- and no, there's no "e" -- industry grows every year despite not really changing.

About half of the 200 top MBA students and graduates polled said major banks were aggressively recruiting them.

The largest airline in Latin America might lose a prime spot in Argentina to a debt-ridden company -- which happens to be Argentinean.

Yahoo attracted more unique visitors than Google did in July, and it also topped a web-traffic rankings report.

Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman has done well by consistently betting on fast food companies.

U.S. stock markets could open higher on Thursday, ahead of data on jobs, home prices and manufacturing activity.

Bids on the company, owned by Li Ka-shing, Asia's richest man, range from $3 billion to $4 billion.

Emerging economies would do well to focus on manufacturing despite the lure of the service sector, ADB said in an annual report.

The latest four-month-high flash PMI reading for China’s manufacturing industry reflects Beijing's recent efforts to prop up growth.

Previously, Japan's nuclear watchdog rated the latest leak as a level 1 incident on the INES.

The improvement in HSBC's manufacturing survey comes after an unexpected rebound in the official PMI reading in July.

Price inflation in the auto market is slowing. You can thank Japan for that.

Wal-Mart's organic growth in China has been underwhelming. It may be time for a bolt-on acquisition.

Herbalife says the hedge fund manager has hired a PR firm to, in effect, run down the value of the nutritional supplement company.

Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) is scheduled to report third quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday.

Instead of directing queries to websites like About.com and wikiHow, Google hopes to capture much of that traffic for itself.

It costs an average $3,201 a year to own a car. In Georgia it costs $4,233, and almost half of that is taxes and fees.

Myanmar's real estate market is experiencing an unprecedented boom, but do your homework before investing there.

The Realtors Ass'n reported that home prices continued to rise even as mortgage interest rates climbed to the highest in two years.

Globally recognized brands, for one thing, which the country's economy sorely needs.

Bad weather and a poor economic outlook are driving down sales, analysts say.

Investors are awaiting the July Fed minutes, and will look for clues regarding Asian economic strength.

Bruno Wu's new $500 million PE fund will invest in fast-growing new media companies.

Apple is expected to follow its conventional iPhone release schedule and launch the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C on Sept. 20 in Japan.

The Armadillo-T, created by engineers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, folds itself completely in half when parking.