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The strike of 45,000 Verizon land line employees continued onto its ninth day on Monday, as groups across the country picketed in front of Verizon stores. IBTimes was on the scene to capture a group of picketing Verizon workers in Lower Manhattan.

Asian airline Cathay Pacific has postponed the second phase of its high-profile international advertising campaign after a sex scandal involving photographs of crew members allegedly engaging in sexual acts circulated online and in Chinese-language newspapers.

Google Inc.'s biggest deal ever, acquiring Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc for $12.5 billion, is an attempt to buy insurance against increasingly aggressive legal attacks from rivals such as Apple Inc.

The acquisition of one of the mobile telecommunications industry's most storied names is Google co-founder Larry Page's boldest move since taking over as CEO in April, launching the Internet giant into a lower-margin manufacturing business and pitting it against many of the 38 other handset companies that now use its Android software.

Shares on Wall Street rose with oil prices on Monday as acquisition news and stronger-than-expected economic data in Japan led markets to steadily forge ahead after last week's wild swings.

A New Jersey man pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a sleeping passenger during a May 2010 flight from Hong Kong to Newark.

Hundreds of Verizon workers in red shirts interrupted a nine-day-old strike to place a wreath at a site in suburban New York on Monday morning, where a colleague was fatally injured on a picket line 22 years ago. The union workers began reportedly one of the biggest labor strikes in recent U.S. history on Aug. 7.

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U.S. solar company Evergreen Solar Inc filed for bankruptcy on Monday, its once cutting-edge technology falling victim to competition from cheaper Chinese rivals and to solar subsidy cuts in Europe.

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The Verizon strike of 45,000 landline employees has hit its ninth day and doesn't show any signs of stopping anytime soon, as the two sides continue to stand far apart on many issues.

Cathay Pacific is set to delay their upcoming ad campaign promoting the crew after photos emerged online of two alleged crew members engaging in sexual acts.

The chief executive of Harmony Gold, Africa's third largest gold producer, said on Monday he remained committed to a 2015 output target of 2 million ounces despite a decline in production over the last financial year.

Time Warner Cable Inc. said Monday it will pay $3 billion in cash for cable operator Insight Communications Co. Inc., which has more than 750,000 customers in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio.

The union says health care is not the issue in the Verizon strike. A local union president says Verizon is attempting union busting.

Virtually all strikers are from the company?s struggling wireline division.

Lowe's Cos Inc (LOW.N) reported weaker-than-expected quarterly sales and cut its fiscal-year outlook for the second time in three months as homeowners put off big renovations in an anemic U.S. economy.

As a U.S. economic rebound stalls and threatens to spiral into a new recession, oil demand in the world's top consumer may be slipping into an irreversible decline.

Asian equities bounced on Monday and safe-haven assets like gold and the Swiss franc fell as market players cautiously returned to pick up bargains after last's week wild ride, though concerns over the weak global economic outlook may keep gains in check.

Time Warner Cable has reached a deal to buy The Carlyle Group's Midwestern cable operator Insight Communications Co for around $3 billion in cash, a source familiar with the matter said Sunday.

An Apple iPhone event is scheduled for Sept. 7, according to a report.

Gold dropped 1.5 percent on Friday, falling further from the previous session's record highs, as a rise in appetite for riskier assets prompted profit-taking from bullion's sharp safe-haven rally this week.

The same week he announces his plans to be mayor of Manhattan, he rids of his Manhattan digs. Politically ambitious Alec Baldwin has put his multi-million dollar New York City apartment on the market, according to Curbed.

Anvil Mining Ltd said it has completed construction of a new plant at its Kinsevere copper mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo and commercial production from the facility is set to begin in the current quarter.

Verizon claimed sabotage, and called the FBI Friday. Tensions in the 45K worker strike are rising.

The former juvenile court judge allegedly accepted nearly $1 million in exchange for sentencing minors to time in for-profit detention centers.

Verizon Communications (VZ.N) won court injunctions in three states to prevent strikers from blocking facilities and it was seeking similar legal protection in two more states on the fifth day of a strike involving almost half the workers in its wireline business.

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos had a eureka moment. He dropped his phone. Then, he applied for a patent for mini airbags to protect mobile phones. Is Amazon's leader a genius like Apple's Steve Jobs?

RBC Capital Markets has downgraded Adobe Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADBE) to "underperform" from "sector perform" over structural concerns.