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DreamWorks Studios and Twentieth Century Fox jointly announced Wednesday that they are co-financing Steven Spielberg's epic Robopocalypse.

South Africa's Wesizwe Platinum will look at consolidation with neighbouring mines as it aims for full production at its new mine by 2021, its chief executive said on Thursday.

Canada's Gabriel Resources Ltd. may lower the cyanide levels at a long-delayed Romanian gold mine project as it seeks to secure a key environmental permit, a company official said on Thursday.

Dismissed Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz really has a way with words. In an interview with Fortune, Bartz said she thinks the Yahoo board that fired her completely did her wrong, and she doesn't mince words.

In writing the only book so far on GE leader Jeff Immelt -- Jeff Immelt and the New GE Way -- it was evident the leader was marked from the start by two distinct things. One was quite obvious, that Immelt followed Jack Welch, a man hailed at the end of the 20th century as one of the greatest business leaders of that century.

The heated patent war between Apple and Samsung has found a new battlefield: Japan.

The bank’s chief executive Stuart Gulliver warned in August that HSBC will cut up to 30,000 jobs around the world by 2013.

Harris Williams & Co. has hired Mike Wilkins to help the investment-banking unit of lending giant PNC Financial Services (PNC.N) become involved in more Silicon Valley deals.

A lawsuit accusing several mortgage lenders of fraud over home loans maintained within the industry's private electronic database cannot proceed, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling.

Forget Park Avenue or Fifth Avenue. Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California, is the most expensive street in North America for office renters, according to a report released by real estate services firm Jones Lang LaSalle Inc on Wednesday.

Carol Bartz, who was fired as Yahoo! Inc.’s chief executive officer, is rumored to receive a payout in the range of $10 million after less than three years on the job.

Fashion's Night Out, which begins on Sept. 8, is proving to be eventful, with countless opportunities for savings and free stuff throughout New York City. Here is a list of free stuff you can score during Fashion's Night Out Sept. 8 in New York.

The U.S. Department of Energy said it has offered $344 million in loan aid for a solar power program at military bases that could double the number of the country's residential rooftop solar arrays.

U.S. Treasury debt prices fell on Wednesday as traders booked profits from a recent rally and higher stocks undermined the safe-haven value of U.S. government debt.

Amanda Knox, convicted of killing her roommate while studying abroad in Italy, could go free after an Italian judge denied prosecutors' request for more DNA testing.

In an order signed on Monday, Judge Ellen S. Huvelle of the United States District Court in Washington, has asked the Justice Department, AT&T and Deutsche Telekom, the parent company of T-Mobile USA, to file the joint plan by the due date and has ordered that the parties shall be prepared to discuss the prospects for settlement at a Sept. 21 status conference, according to reports.

Workers at Cerro Verde in Peru launched a two-day pay strike on Wednesday but no effect on output was expected at the mine that produces around 2 percent of the world's copper, union and company representatives said.

Take it from Wal-Mart: Losing can be winning, as the company stands to get some major benefits from a class action lawsuit filed by angry consumers regarding its agreement with Netflix.

Carol Bartz was removed as Chief Executive Officer of Yahoo, ending her tenure short of her contract expiration in 2012.

In an unprecedented court order, a 51-year-old Frenchman was ordered to pay 10,000 euros to compensate his wife for the lack of sex over 21 years of their marriage.

Ratings agency Standard & Poor's officials privately met with large bond investors weeks before the firm's U.S. debt downgrade, leaving some believing the chance of a rating downgrade was higher than they had previously thought, the Wall Street Journal said.

Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) forecast fiscal 2013 sales well ahead of market expectations, helped by demand for its graphics chips, sending its shares up 6 percent in extended trade.

Chevron Corp has made a deepwater discovery in the Gulf of Mexico at the Moccasin prospect, the site of the first exploratory well permit after the end of last year's deepwater moratorium.

Former Marvel executive Doug Finberg has joined MGM as executive VP of marketing, the studio announced Tuesday.

News that daily social network coupon company Groupon has reportedly canceled a roadshow scheduled for next week in advance of a planned IPO and is reevaluating plans to take the company's stock public is not that big of a surprise. After all, CEO Andrew Mason has been hailed for being a young genius but sooner or later one had to figure inexperience might catch up with him and the company.

A brush fire ignited by a fatal small-plane crash in Southern California has destroyed 12 homes and forced the evacuation of hundreds of others, leaving over 13,000 acres charred on Tuesday as it flared out of control for a third day.

Sprint Nextel filed its own lawsuit on Tuesday in an effort to derail a $39 billion deal that could have ATT&T take over T-Mobile. Sprint believes the merger could harm consumers and stifle competition.

Halliburton Co (HAL.N) filled a gap in its offering of oil and gas extraction services with a deal to buy Multi-Chem Group LLC, North America's fourth-largest production chemicals company.

South Africa has no plans to privatise logistics group Transnet and power utility Eskom to attract more investment and has no intention of splitting the companies, the minister of public enterprises said on Tuesday.