Forty years ago Thursday, a man known as D.B. Cooper pulled off one of the most daring crimes in U.S. history: He hijacked Northwest Orient flight 305, leaped from the plane wearing a business suit and a parachute, and made off with $200,000 in ransom money.
Taiwan's HTC Corp cut its revenue forecast for the fourth quarter to no growth over the same period a year earlier from around 20 percent to 30 percent year on year growth previously, surprising the market and sending its shares tumbling 7 percent.
Taiwan's HTC Corp cut its revenue forecast for the fourth quarter to no growth over the same period a year earlier from around 20 percent to 30 percent year on year growth previously, but forecast a pick up in the first half of 2012.
When gamers take the wraps off the new BioShock video game next year, they should not be surprised if parts of the game remind them of the Occupy Wall Street protests.
U.S. chemical giant DuPont on Wednesday announced a multi-year partnership with Israel-based biotechnology company Evogene Ltd. to develop a strain of soybeans that carry improved resistance to rust, a fungal disease devastating to the crop.
Anthony Hardwick's tongue-in-cheek goal was 300 million signatures -- a signature from the entire United States population -- for a petition to Target president and CEO Gregg Steinhafel.
Fidelity Investments gives a select group of employees an unusual perk. It lets them make unsecured loans to the company at annual interest rates that have paid them nearly 20 percent in recent years.
U.S. consumer spending growth slowed in October and business capital investment plans were weak, raising questions about expectations for solid economic performance in the fourth quarter.
Ever wondered what the U.S. economy might look like should there be another Lehman Brothers-style bank collapse? Well, it would not be pretty.
Bacteria lurk on just about every surface in public restrooms, from toilets to faucets to floors, according to a new study. The good news is that most of cataloged microbes were relatively harmless and came from human skin.
Brazilian officials said the moratorium on Chevron will stay in place until the company can further explain and correct the conditions that led to the oil leak earlier this month.
German drugmaker Merck KGaA accused U.S. rival Merck & Co of hijacking its Facebook page and said it plans to sue to get it back.
One thing I learned while writing my holiday film guide Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas is that there are two kinds of plots in this sub-genre with a tendency to stink on ice: movies about Santa, and anything where somebody has to save Christmas. (Miracle on 34th Street, Elf and Ernest Saves Christmas among the obvious exceptions.)
Family films are always a big part of the Thanksgiving box office equation, but this year multiplexes will be especially stuffed with the genre.
The NBA meandered ever so slightly closer to resolving its five-month-long work stoppage Tuesday, with its players consolidating two class-action anti-trust suits against league owners.
Shoppers across America have begun camping out in front of Best Buy stores in anticipation of Black Friday deals, some as early as a week ago. As sites like Occupy Best Buy pick up on the craze, news sites have begun to call the deal-hungry shoppers occupiers, and news of increasing Thanksgiving sales has Best Buy locations swamped.
Moody's Investors Service on Wednesday warned that its top credit rating for the United States could be in jeopardy if lawmakers backtrack on $1.2 trillion in deficit cuts planned over 10 years.
City officials have offered Occupy L.A. protesters 10,000 square feet of indoor space and other incentives to vacate the City Hall lawn they have camped on for over seven weeks, a lawyer for the group said on Tuesday.
The failure of the Super Committee to reach a budget deal wouldn't immediately affect the U.S. credit rating, according to Moody's Investors Service, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services and Fitch Ratings, but the rating agencies are keeping a watchful eye on developments.
The U.S. average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rate remained steady at 3.98 percent in the week ending Nov. 17, according to Freddie Mac.
Sustainable economic growth is one of the key questions facing economists today, especially when it comes to developing countries.
In an exercise of caution, the United States Embassy in Damascus urged its citizens to depart Syria immediately, and Turkey's foreign ministry likewise beseeched its citizens to find return flights home through Saudi Arabia in order to avoid the mounting pandemonium going on in Syria.
