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With more than 1 billion unique users each month, YouTube reaches more young adults than cable television does. But advertisers are hesitant.

Prefabricated construction techniques are enjoying a recent revival as the real estate industry seeks higher productivity and compact budgets.

The latest American Housing Survey shows that for every homeless person in 2011, there were about 21 vacant houses.

News Corp. is putting its British media properties under one roof in London.

Engineers inspected 70 garment factories; most had minor issues, two need to be condemned, four need immediate attention.

There were no injuries. One aviation analyst said the fire was unlikely to have been caused by a faulty battery.

Walmart Stores, the nation's largest grocer, announced Friday that it will sell Twinkies in all of its domestic U.S. stores starting Friday.

China looks to Nigeria for oil and in return invests in the West African country, seeking oil source diversification.

Shell's Nigerian oil pipeline was shut down after the company found leaks opened by thieves.

The world’s largest package deliverer points to Asian slowdown as one reason for lowering its earnings forecast.

Get ready for another quarter of weak earnings growth and low expectations.

The 0.8% jump was led by a 7.2% surge in wholesale gasoline prices. Meanwhile, the core PPI rate rose just 0.2%.

Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie, the next major version of the Android OS, is expected to be released in October on Google's Nexus 5 phone.

The FDA set a limit for permitted levels of arsenic, including the carcinogenic variety, in apple juice.

An explosion inside a Chinatown building on Thursday led to a fire and a partial collapse, injuring a dozen people, including firefighters.

Chinese regulators will hand over audit records of U.S.-listed Chinese companies to the SEC, to assist investigations into accounting fraud.

Bullish institutional investors will try to make the case that no tapering of Fed stimulus will occur before 2014.

A weak rupee and rising US demand helped Indian IT giant post better-than-expected Q1 earnings

Delaying the decision process could make it hard for the U.S. to compete with nations that are already building export facilities, a report states.

Al Jazeera America has named the first four anchors set to present the news when network launches in August.

A limited-edition silver penny will be released the day Kate Middleton gives birth to babies born the same day as Britain's newest royal.

Norway’s version of NASA is in talks with Telnor Group to provide web connectivity on increasingly trafficked Arctic sea routes.

With an aging population, Japan's adult diaper market is now greater than the baby diaper market.

The 1962 Austin-Healey Sprite will be a birthday or graduation gift for Paul and Christina Stoute's daughter.

European telecom companies were raided by the European Commission over concerns they were breaking anti-trust laws

July 11 marks the annual return of Free Slurpee Day, which has grown in popularity since the start of the tradition in 2002.

An unexpected side effect of President Xi's anti-corruption measures -- more Chinese are investing in the U.S. real estate market.

Investors will likely spend the day digesting Fed Chair Bernanke's comments on quantitative easing, and his taper stance.

PC shipments declined worldwide for the fifth straight quarter, as emerging market consumers sought cheaper tablets.