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Yahoo Japan Corp. pitches in SoftBank Capital's efforts to expand venture capital efforts that attract U.S. investment.

Fox News beat its competition, CNN and MSNBC, during its coverage of the Boston marathon bombings and aftermath, signaling a possible credibility problem for CNN.

A New Jersey school proposed a ban on strapless dresses for the junior high dance. But what about other questionable styles like super-high slits, midriff cutouts and backless styles?

The damage from the recent sell-off in silver prices will not likely be repaired this year.

The Troubled Asset Relief Program’s special inspector general warned that taxpayers are still on the hook for giant bank collapses.

Rio Tinto plc, Yum! Brands, Newmont Mining Corp, eBay Inc, Edwards Lifesciences, Unisys Corp, Superconductor Technologies, ARM Holdings and Opko Health Inc. are among the companies whose shares are moving in the pre-market trading Wednesday.

Durable goods orders measure the change in the total value of new orders for long-lasting manufactured goods.

The top after-market Nasdaq gainers Tuesday were IRobot Corporation, Enzon Pharmaceuticals Inc, Broadcom Corporation, Halozyme Therapeutics Inc, and MICROS Systems Inc. The top after-market Nasdaq losers were Vocus Inc, HomeAway Inc., Panera Bread, and Cree Inc.

The top after-market NYSE gainers Tuesday were Ashford Hospitality Trust, Yum! Brands, Newfield Exploration, Lumber Liquidators Holdings and KKR & Co. The top after-market NYSE losers were Unisys Corp, Edwards Lifesciences, Ethan Allen Interiors, DeVry Inc. and Juniper Networks, Inc.

Here's a comparison of the the Boston Marathon bombing and the Texas plant explosion in terms of actual impact and media coverage.

A fake tweet about the White House being attacked and the president being injured hammered stocks, for a moment.

The concentration of U.S. crude oil imports among its top-five suppliers is the highest since 1997.

Paraguay has elected a conservative millionaire businessman as president, in contrast to the region's majority of left-leaning leaders.

Saudi Arabia may change its weekend to bring it closer to Western standards, and further from its founding principles.

New bird flu infections are spreading outward from Shanghai, Chinese officials said on Tuesday.

A Colorado car blog publisher says Google unfairly yanked his website from Google News for supposedly violating its policy on sponsored content.

The monetary union in April extended its exploration of just how low it can go in terms of business activity.

Netflix, Inc, Toll Brothers, Aixtron, ARM Holdings, Bank of America, PulteGroup prevailed in the pre-market trading on Tuesday.

American and Chinese car buyers are helping Ford partially offset losses in Europe, Latin America and India.

U.S. stock index futures point to a lower open Tuesday as investors remained cautious ahead of the new home sales data.

Crude oil prices declined and hovered below $89 a barrel in Asian trading on Tuesday after China’s manufacturing activity slowed in April.

Netflix Inc, Veeco Instruments, Illumina, Xoom and Celldex prevailed in the Nasdaq post-market trading Monday.

Swift Transportation, Live Nation, Xerox Corp, Intelsat S.A and Northern Tier prevailed in the post-market NYSE trading Monday.

"To Have and To Hold," the latest episode of AMC's "Mad Men" blended fact and fiction with "Broadway Joe on Broadway," a pitch to Dow Chemical.

Despite government efforts to get Chinese to drive alternative-fuel cars, the Chinese are embracing the biggest cars they can afford.

Samsung has been the most generous so far, followed by Apple; both have faced criticisms for labor practices of their suppliers.

Power One Inc, Delhaize Group, Zynga, Silver Wheaton, and Yahoo prevailed in the pre-market trading Monday.

Investors estimate that March U.S. existing home sales rose to a 5.01 million unit annual rate.

Asian stocks mostly advanced Monday, led by gains in Japanese shares, which rose to a five-year high of 2.2 percent, before closing up 1.89 percent.