LED maker Cree Inc (CREE.O) on Wednesday said it would pay $525 million for Ruud Lighting Inc, expanding its presence in the market for outdoor lighting systems.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said he has been "stunned" by the response to his call for a boycott on political donations in response to Washington's poor handling of the debt-ceiling issue.
Despite the wave of negative attention Netflix got for raising its prices, Redbox has decided to follow suit and raise the prices on its DVD rental service.
One in five Internet users visited Amazon in the month of June, according to a comScore report.
Google lost the battle with Apple, Microsoft and other in the bid for Nortel Network's 6,000 patents in the extravagant $4.5 billion transaction. The search giant regained some traction with it $12.5 billion dollar acquisition of Motorola in its push for dominance in the mobile market. The buy includes 17,000 patents that Google can utilize in combating legal affairs with rivals such as Apple.
In the 45,000 Verizon worker strike, the company says the dividing issue in labor negotiations is health care. But workers say Verizon wants more than that. They make a very good point.
Television and film actor Burt Reynolds is in danger of getting evicted from his home in southeast Florida.
Apple is being sued by 27,000 South Koreans over privacy issues involving location services in the iPhone and iPad.
Global brewer SABMiller took its $10 billion bid for Foster's Group direct to shareholders on Wednesday just days before the Australian beer group's annual results are set to show flagging profits.
Core producer prices rose at their fastest pace in six months in July on strong tobacco and light truck costs, though weak domestic demand was seen keeping inflation pressures under control.
Abercrombie & Fitch announced on Tuesday that it would like for Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino and the rest of his Jersey Shore cast mates to stop wearing its clothing line, fearing it could harm the brand.
Abercrombie and Fitch posted a higher-than-expected quarterly profit as teenagers, both in the United States as well as in international markets, readily shopped at its stores for jeans, T-shirts and other staples.
World equities rose on Wednesday, lifted by strong outlooks and results from U.S. retailers, while crude oil gained on a larger-than-expected decline in U.S. gasoline supplies.
Warren Buffett and Howard Schultz want to change the conversation about how to fix the United States' economic woes. But their solutions - more taxes on the rich and a boycott on political donations - risk falling on deaf ears among fellow business leaders.
Striking Verizon workers will lose health benefits on Aug. 31 if they are still on picket lines, the company has confirmed.
Ford is at it again in social media-- this time unveiling a new Facebook-based countrywide mileage challenge.
A faction of the 45,000 Verizon employees on strike is planning on protesting a New York Department of Education meeting on Wednesday.
Consumers aren't touching HP's TouchPad tablet. Best Buy is sitting on 200,000 unsold TouchPads and wants to send them back to the company.
A chemistry student, suspected of planning a gas attack against protesters opposing a visit by Pope Benedict XVI, has been arrested by the Spanish police.
A Philadelphia man has been murdered after his ex-girlfriend, and the mother of his child, posted a note on Facebook promising $1000 for killing him.
Authorities found the remains of the 3-year-old Missouri girl Breeann Rodriguez, who went missing for more than a week, on Tuesday, near a series of floodway ditches about eight miles southeast of the girl's family's home in Senath. A suspect from the girl's neighborhood Shawn Morgan, who was arrested on Saturday, has confessed that he had suffocated the child with a plastic bag before dumping her body in the ditch.
Chinese online video company Tudou Holdings Ltd (TUDO.O) priced shares in its initial public offering within the expected range on Tuesday, even though investor sentiment toward U.S.-listed Chinese stocks and the recent stock market turmoil had suggested it would be difficult.
Housing stock on the market has climbed 22% since last year, SQM Research has revealed.
Google's monster purchase of Motorola Mobility has made it clear: The digital future is all about portability.
First Solar Inc (FSLR.O) on Tuesday said the head of its utility systems business, Jens Meyerhoff, is leaving the company, effective Sept. 30.
Google's $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings, widely considered a mobile phone also-run, took the technology world by surprise on Monday.
New research has indicated it now takes the average couple more than four years to save a deposit for their first home.
Verizon has threatened to pull the benefits of 45,000 striking workers on Aug. 31.
A lack of pipeline scheduling in West Coast markets sent fuel prices down on Monday, dealers said.
U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday after three days of gains when a meeting between the heads of France and Germany failed to quell fears about euro zone leaders' ability to contain the region's sovereign debt woes.
