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Senior Facebook executives met Monday with analysts and bankers, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn't attend. The company's chief financial officer told attendees that Zuckerberg prefers to focus on developing Facebook's social-networking service.

Stock index futures fell on Tuesday ahead of housing market data after the S&P 500 advanced for a third straight session, moving within 10 percent of its historic closing high.

Pregnant Jessica Simpson’s Nude Pose for Elle was her Idea: Sex Drive is ‘Unstoppable’ now; Feeling More ‘Intimate,’ she says

U.S. officials believe that an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities will draw U.S. military action and leave hundreds of American soldiers dead, the New York Times said.

Critics of China's foreign exchange regime have shifted their focus from the value of the yuan to the mechanism in which its day-to-day level is set, the head of the OECD said on Tuesday, a fresh sign that currency may be near its equilibrium level.

U.S. stock index futures fell on Tuesday ahead of housing market data after the S&P 500 advanced for a third straight session, moving within 10 percent of its historic closing high.

Adding to the long-running rumor mill of the device, a new leaked photo, claimed to be of Galaxy S3, has surfaced on Reddit, suggesting that the Korean tech giant's upcoming smartphone may run two different launchers. Sounds shocking?

France's data protection watchdog has given internet search group Google Inc three weeks to answer questions about its new privacy policy, as part of a Europe-wide investigation being led by the French regulator.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will be lending her high profile to the Amelia Earhart search expedition.

A Reverse Telephone Lookup, which is commonly known as gray pages directory, criss-cross directory or reverse phone directory, is one of the most popular investigative searches on the Internet to collect customer details associated with telephone numbers. Check out the list of five best US service providers.

Female Health Company, the designer of the only FDA-approved FC2 Female Condom, has announced the launch of a free, interactive online training program for health care providers to raise product awareness and the usage.

Australian iron ore miners, key beneficiaries of China's modern-day industrial revolution, on Tuesday signaled demand growth was finally slowing in response to Beijing's moves to cool its economy.

The chief executive of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide said oil prices would have to rise pretty significantly from current levels to put a dent in hotel demand.

Gwyneth Paltrow has recently come under fire over reports that her cookbook My Father's Daughter was not actually written by the actress. Last week a report surfaced in the New York Times alleging that a Cookbook Ghostwriter penned the popular lifestyle guide.

In Sweden, monetary transactions made with physical cash are down to three percent of the national economy... and the rest of the world may be closer to cashless than you think.

A military unit from Russia, President Bashar al-Assad's best and last friend, has arrived in Syria, Russian media reported Monday.

Privately held Zayo Group LLC agreed to buy rival AboveNet Inc, a provider of broadband connections to big companies and carriers, for about $2.2 billion to tap into the galloping demand for fast data services.

Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook, moving swiftly after taking over from late Silicon Valley icon Steve Jobs, fulfilled a longstanding desire of investors by initiating a quarterly dividend and share buyback that will pay out $45 billion over three years.

Washington Mutual Inc , one of the biggest corporate casualties of the 2008 financial crisis, on Monday emerged from bankruptcy protection, just two weeks after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc also emerged from Chapter 11.

Hamburger chain Wendy's Co knocked Burger King Corp from its spot as the second-largest U.S. hamburger chain in 2011, but sales of both companies continued to lag McDonald's Corp , the country's No. 1 restaurant chain.

Square-shaped burger paddies have surpassed charbroiled slabs of meat, as Wendys' Co. (NASDAQ: WEN) leapfrogged Burger King Holdings Inc. (NYSE: BKC) to become the second-largest U.S. hamburger chain, according to Technomic Inc.'s Top 500 Chain Restaurant Report.