British tourists Leigh Van Bryan probably did not expect his trip to the U.S. to involve handcuffs and a jail cell; but that is where he ended up. The security happened over tweets sent by Van Bryan stating they would go and destroy Americaand diggin' Marilyn Monroe up!
Automotive aftermarket retailer Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack (NYSE:PBY) said Monday it will be purchased by The Gores Group, a U.S. investment firm, for $1 billion.
Amazon.com Inc's Quidsi unit may be getting into sporting goods, challenging retailers in this niche, including Dick's Sporting Goods, Hibbett Sports and Cabela's, analysts at Credit Suisse said Monday.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday gave a green light to a basal cell skin cancer drug made by Roche Holding AG and Curis Inc. The drug will be marketed by Roche's San Francisco-based Genetech arm under the brand name Erivedge.
Senate Republicans plan to introduce a bill that would allow Congress to bypass the executive branch in order to green-light construction for the contentious Keystone XL pipeline.
The trial, which is likely to shine a searching light on the adequacy of the bank's management and risk controls, could land Adoboli with a maximum 10-year jail sentence if convicted of the two counts of fraud and two of false accounting.
Apple co-founder and chairman Steve Jobs inspired his company to create some of the world's greatest inventions, from computers to smartphones to tablets. But you don't need to work in the tech industry, or wear a black turtleneck and jeans, to run your company like Apple.
While Florida authorities continue to investigate the cause of the horrific Interstate 75 pileup on Sunday, which has left 10 people dead and multiple others injured, one man has said the Florida crashes looked as if it was the end of (the) world.
Amazon.com is expected to report earnings Tuesday of 19 cents a share, down from 91 cents a share in the year earlier period, despite strong Kindle sales and a boom in e-commerce during the holiday season.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced Monday that his charitable foundation will contribute $363 million over the next five years to the fight to stop neglected tropical diseases worldwide.
Facebook's initial public offering is likely to set a new standard for how low investment banks are willing to go on advisory fees to win big business.
Imagined by Honda officials for almost 30 years, the Japanese auto maker is expecting to make its first HondaJet delivery next year, and intends to carve out a 25 percent market share of the world's business jets.
A big part of successfully managing a small business is inspiring loyalty and getting the most out of employees.
The world's major pharmaceutical companies joined forces with governments and leading global health organizations Monday to donate drugs and scientific know-how to help control or wipe out 10 neglected tropical diseases by 2020.
Loss-making Spanish airline Spanair ceased operations on Friday night, grounding all its airplanes after its owner, citing the country's economic crisis, said it would not sink any more money into the company.
Japan's second-biggest refiner, TonenGeneral Sekiyu KK, said on Monday its $4-billion purchase of a controlling stake in itself from U.S. oil major Exxon Mobil Corp would help speed business decisions.
Steam is now available on iOS.
Canon's 76-year-old chairman and CEO will take on the additional role of president after the $60 billion Japanese camera and printer maker forecast weak earnings growth and said its current president was stepping down.
Facebook Inc., the world's largest social networking site, is getting closer to its initial public offering this week as the company is reportedly planning to file papers with the U.S. financial watchdog on Wednesday. Speculation is rife that the social media giant is aiming to raise about $10 billion, which would value the company at between $75 billion and $100 billion.
Corey Eubank, the man accused of being an accomplice to Oneal Ron Morris, the fake doctor caught up in Florida's Toxic Tush case, was attacked on television Wednesday night while filming a talk show.
Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have warned that data belonging to users of Megaupload could start getting deleted by Thursday.
Citigroup's chairman, Richard Parsons, is considering giving up the position to focus on other interests, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the situation.
Italian insurer Unipol said on Sunday it has agreed a four-way merger plan to rescue insurance company Fondiaria-SAI with its parent company Premafin .
Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant has leaked more than 600 liters of water, forcing it to briefly suspend cooling operations at a spent-fuel pond over the weekend, but none is thought to have escaped into the ocean.
Regulators in Britain and Switzerland may take steps against bank UBS for shortfalls in oversight that allowed an alleged rogue trader to run up a huge loss, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Swiss engineering company ABB (ABBN.VX) was near an agreement Sunday to acquire U.S. manufacturer Thomas & Betts Corp (TNB.N) for about $ 4 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
French oil firm Total is close to securing exploration rights over several oil-and-gas blocks in Iraqi Kurdistan, the Sunday Times reported. The paper said a deal could be announced within weeks, although it also cited sources close to the situation as saying that the deal could still fall apart.
Japan's second-largest refiner TonenGeneral Sekiyu KK said on Sunday it will buy 99 percent of the shares in the Exxon Mobil Corp.'s Japanese unit, ExxonMobil Yugen Kaisha, for 302 billion yen ($3.94 billion) to improve efficiency.
Vexillum deals with customizing the background and font colors of the notification banner.
The new 2.9.1 version deals with all existing problems and fixes bug issues.
