Some 100,000 South African gold miners went on strike on Thursday, but fuel workers ended a stoppage that had slowed commerce and caused panic buying.
Amazon has struck a deal with NBCUniversal to add 1,000 movies to its streaming video services offered to its Prime customers.
Jeffs is facing two counts of sexual assault
An analyst says Apple will push legal claims to protect its iPhone and other mobile technology patents "hard and unrelentingly." He says should Apple win, it could have an impact of $30 billion in additional revenue for the company.
Sony reported a $199 million loss in its first quarter because of the March earthquake and tsunami, softer TV sales, Playstation hacking, and a strong yen, and cut its profit forecast for the fiscal year by 25 percent.
Dunkin' Donuts had a successful IPO launch Wednesday, with shares increasing more than 40 percent on the first day of trading. But something about it smells a lot like Boston Chicken in the 1990s.
Gulliver had warned that Europe?s largest bank ?clearly [has] a cost problem."
South Koreans were cautioned about rogue landmines and explosives on Thursday after scores of deadly landslides in and around the capital swamped homes, a monastery and military sites after the heaviest rainfall in a century, officials said.
In a rundown patch of Detroit, enclosed by a cyclone fence and barbed wire, stands an unremarkable warehouse that investment bank Goldman Sachs has transformed into a money-making machine.
An Air Canada plane bound for Vancouver was forced to dump fuel and return to Sydney on Thursday after crew reported smoke coming from an oven in the galley, the airline said.
Exxon reported second-quarter earnings before the market open Thursday and the company showed an increase due to higher oil prices but the number was below Wall Street's expectations.
Nintendo is dropping the price of its 3DS handheld device by $80 on August 12 in hopes of improving slow sales.
Cinedigm will sell its physical and electronic distribution business to Technicolor, the two companies announced on Wednesday.
Median house prices have seen their fourth consecutive drop in the June quarter.
Housing in Australia has become "severely unaffordable", and it will take 10 years of flat-lined prices to rectify, a study has found.
Investors punished Juniper Networks (JNPR.N) by selling its shares after the networking equipment maker joined Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) in warning that this year's results will miss Wall Street projections.
For more than three years, U.S. securities regulators investigated allegations of accounting fraud at a small telecom firm called China Voice Holding Corp, but could not make a case.
Investors sought protection in options on Wednesday as fears of a U.S. credit rating downgrade intensified.
Dunkin' Donuts IPO launches and the company is giving away a free lunch on Friday July 29.
Dunkin' Donuts IPO saw shares increase more than 40 percent Wednesday. Dunkin' is involved in a large-scale growth plan over the next 20 years, seeking to grow from 6,800 stores to more than 15,000.
Restaurant operator P.F. Chang's posted disappointed quarterly results Wednesday, and Wall Street reacted, dropping the company's stock more than 10 percent.
A global labor federation plans to bring African unions together to battle the expansion of U.S. retailer Wal-Mart on the continent, a senior group member said on Wednesday.
Higher input costs and a strong rand led to a 63 percent drop in ArcelorMittal South Africa's first-half profit and the steelmaker forecast a difficult third quarter on Wednesday, sending its shares to a 28-month low.
Daniel Schuler, whose wife killed herself, their daughter and six others when she drove the wrong way on New York's Taconic State Parkway, is suing his brother-in-law -- whose three young daughters were among the victims.
Dunkin' Brands, the parent company of Dunkin' Donuts, saw its share price soar to $28 dollars after an IPO of $19.
Jeff Bezos and Amazon have unique competitive advantage, some analysts say. They suggest Amazon is succeeding bigger, and faster, than Wal-Mart did, becoming the world's largest retailer. That begs the question: Has Amazon built the most competitive business ever?
As of 12:30, shares are up in excess of $44/share, giving the company a market value of about $3-billion.
Netflix may have created a storm of anger when it announced its new prices, but it's in the midst of several new deals that will help keep it on top.
Netflix sees 70 percent of subscribers choosing 'Stream Only' option.
Energizer Holdings Inc's (ENR.N) quarterly profit did not fall as much as expected, as strong razor sales helped mitigate the impact of higher costs for materials such as zinc and weak demand for batteries.
