U.S. antitrust regulators told Google they opened a formal investigation into whether the dominant search company illegally abuses its market power.
In the measure, 70 Democrats joined 225 Republicans to resoundingly defeated the bill. The GOP contends President Barack Obama has violated the War Powers Act by deploying forces for the Libyan campaign; Democrats contend the GOP is playing politics with national security.
Stocks dropped on Friday as worries about the Italian banking sector added to anxiety emanating from Europe about passage of a Greek austerity plan, and the S&P 500 once again tested a key technical level.
New orders for U.S. manufactured goods and a gauge of business spending plans rose in May, easing fears of a sharp slowdown in factory activity.
Stocks dropped on Friday as worries about the Italian banking sector added to anxiety emanating from Europe about passage of a Greek austerity plan, and the S&P 500 once again tested a key technical level.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is hiring a new legal team to take a less confrontational approach in his next British court appeal against a Swedish request he be extradited for questioning in a sexual misconduct case.
New orders for long-lasting U.S. manufactured goods rose more than expected in May as bookings for transportation equipment rebounded strongly, according to a government report on Friday that could allay fears of a sharp slowdown in factory activity.
The reviews are in for Cars 2 and the professional critics have decidedly mixed and negative reviews for Pixar's latest effort on the big screen.
A U.S. appeals court on Friday revived a lawsuit by bondholders of the failed Washington Mutual Bank who are challenging the thrift's seizure by the FDIC and sale to JPMorgan Chase & Co .
Apple is now suing Samsung in South Korea, the electronics company's home base.
Stocks fell on Friday as worries about the Italian banking sector added to uncertainty about passage of a Greek austerity plan, and the S&P 500 again tested a key technical level.
Computer hackers who previously broke into a U.S. Senate server and brought down the CIA website struck an Arizona police website on Thursday, releasing dozens of internal documents over the Internet.
Should Finland, Nokia's home base, take some of the blame for the one-time market leader's recent struggles to compete in smartphones?
U.S. antitrust regulators have given Intel Corp approval to pursue assets being sold by bankrupt telecommunications gear maker Nortel Networks Corp, the Federal Trade Commission said on Friday.
President Obama will announce a $500 million partnership to spur innovation and create jobs in the manufacturing sector during a speech at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh Friday.
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William will depart for their U.S. and Canadian tour in five days.
President Obama's decision to sharply reduce troop levels in Afghanistan acknowledged how much the war is costing the U.S.
J.D. Power and Associates forecast that June U.S. auto sales will rise 8 percent from a year ago and 2.6 percent from last month, in line with statements earlier this week from General Motors Co and Ford Motor Co executives.
Some companies will win, some companies will lose as growth slows in the American economy and inflation rises. Here's a list of five winners, and five losers.
Stock index futures pared losses and were nearly flat on Friday after trading in some Italian banks was briefly suspended, raising new fears about the European debt crisis.
After a massive data breach last month, Citigroup did not offer its hacked clients the same degree of identity-theft protection that many other companies provide, drawing criticism from privacy advocates.
Recently departed Osama bin Laden wanted to change the name of his terrorist outfit al-Qaeda to something else for “marketing reasons,” according to a report in the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
