U.S. non-manufacturing sector expanded for the 24th consecutive month in November, but at a slightly slower rate, according to a closely watched index released Thursday.
Tech blog InTech-BB on Sunday reported that a group of iOS hackers successfully ported Siri, Apple's virtual personal assistant, to iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4G.
Coca-Cola Co. defended on Friday the safety of its yogurt drinks sold in northern China, denying there was any link to the death of a child or the illness of three other people who had consumed the drinks, but said it removed the product from shelves in a precautionary move.
A collection of high end cars, including eight Ferraris, were damaged on Sunday night after a Japanese highway crash.
MetLife expects operating earnings to rise as much as 7 percent in 2012, the largest life insurer in the United States said on Monday, though its forecasts for the fourth quarter and full-year 2011 were below expectations.
Deutsche Bank continues to recommend investors to buy into Dell, Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) and sell Hewlett-Packard, Co. (NYSE: HPQ), saying HP was expensive, compared to Dell on Enterprise Value (EV) and Free Cash Flow (FCF) metrics.
Germany's SAP announced a $3.4 billion cash deal to buy U.S. Web-based software company SuccessFactors, joining the scramble among technology firms to offer cloud-computing services to businesses.
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Citing people familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal said the new Lehman board will be made up of seven experts in restructuring, real estate and derivatives but they don't have ties with Lehman. They'll reportedly oversee liquidation of billions of dollars in assets so that money can be dispensed among Lehman's many creditors.
Daily deals site Groupon, Inc. (NASDAQ:GRPN) appears on track to produce strong growth in the fourth quarter, driven by an uptrend in billings.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued its final rule on the minimum Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) regulation, including relatively minor technical adjustments and preserving the spirit of the regulation by requiring health plans to spend 80 to 85 percent of premiums on medical costs.
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT) continues to gain market share against Microsoft, Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT), SUSE Linux and Oracle Solaris in the cloud computing space, according to a Wall Street analyst.
Boeing Co launched its six-month world tour of the new 787 Dreamliner jet from Beijing, China on Dec.4, 2011.
The Galaxy Nexus continues to tease U.S. hopefuls after the phone appeared with Verizon's logo at the Samsung Experience in New York City on Saturday.
An expert panel appointed by Japan's Olympus Corp. to look into an accounting scandal at the disgraced firm will release its findings on Tuesday, the Kyodo news agency said in a weekend report. The findings could pave the way for possible criminal complaints.
Twenty-seven years later, the impact from the Bhopal gas disaster is far-reaching as survivors continue to battle health issues, families fight to keep the memories of their loved ones alive, and companies and cities continue to face the fallout from what has been called the worst industrial disaster of our time.
Facebook, the social-networking giant that is preparing to go public, said it plans to hire thousands of employees over the next year to keep up with what it expects to be rapid growth.
India's Kingfisher Airlines is still in talks with a potential local investor to raise funds, its chairman said Friday, even as woes mounted for the cash strapped carrier with a major airport set to stop facilities on credit.
European aerospace company, Airbus SAS has filed a federal suit against Seattle winglet supplier and partner of rival company Boeing.
The network future of NBC's Community -- alarmingly absent from the midseason schedule that the network released last month -- might be up in the air, but digital-age couch potatoes are in luck.
Toyota Motor Corp has won the dismissal of a U.S. lawsuit brought by vehicle owners in 14 other countries who said their Toyotas lost value because of the Japanese automaker's mishandling of alleged unintended acceleration problems.
Yahoo is letting The Projector and The Set flicker out and die, the movie and television blogs acknowledged on Twitter Friday.
Japanese regulators will not extend a deadline for Olympus to report its financial results, sources with knowledge of the matter said, leaving the scandal-hit company with less than two weeks to correct two decades of accounting and avoid delisting.
Shopping for your friends and family would be easy if you could get them all an Apple iPhone this holiday season. After all, the iPhone 3GS is free with a new two-year contract, and you might even be able to get that deal by adding a new line to your existing contract.
The Metropolitan Transit Authority called an earlier New York Post story on Apple's new store at Grand Central inaccurate.
Facebook announced on Friday it would open an engineering office in Manhattan next year. The new branch will add space to the company's two floors at 333-335 Madison Avenue, near Grand Central.
Burger King has begun introducing new French fries in its North American franchises, hoping a revamped recipe will help it take on competitors McDonald's and Wendy's in the fast-food burger and fries restaurant chain market.
An Olympic boycott will not be on the agenda when the Indian Olympic Association meets next week, despite continuing outrage over Dow Chemical's high-profile sponsorship of the London 2012 Games, the IOA's acting president told Reuters on Monday.
U.S. rail traffic, a snapshot of the weekly economic well-being, continued to climb in late November. During the week ending Nov. 26, U.S. railroads originated 265,304 carloads, up 4 percent compared with the same week last year, while intermodal volume for the week totaled 190,866 trailers and containers, up 3.7 percent compared with the year-ago-period, the Association of American Railroads reported.
The Gitxsan First Nation said on Friday it has agreed to become the first aboriginal partner for Enbridge Inc's C$5.5 billion ($5.42 billion) Northern Gateway oil pipeline, one day after other native groups in British Columbia pledged to block the project.
