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Zynga reportedly attempted to buy Rovio, the makers of Angry Birds, for $2.25 billion, but were rejected. Is this a warning sign for Zynga?

Two brave Bronx firefighters came to the rescue of a teenage girl on Saturday after a mugger robbed the girl of a gold chain.

Steven Spielberg's War Horse may be one of the final awards contenders to be unveiled this year, but after a month of sporadic screenings, DreamWorks unveiled it with a vengeance this weekend.

Hedy Lamarr may have been known for her astonishing beauty but it was her inventor streak that really stands out.

U.S. District Court Judge Jed S. Rakoff issued an acerbic order blocking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's proposed $285 million deal with Citigroup that is "neither fair, nor reasonable, nor adequate, nor in the public interest."

Lending some credence to the old maxim that there's no such thing as bad publicity, the infamous Broadway musical Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark has broken house records on the eve of its second anniversary.

An ex-con was taken into custody after robbing two elderly men in the Stuyvesant Town section of Manhattan.

South Africa's rand gained as much as 2.3 percent against the dollar on Monday in what traders said was a temporary correction after last week's battering to 30-month lows.

Improving market fundamentals will bolster the commercial real estate market in 2012, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR).

IBTimes received exclusive information from Frank, one of the founders of the No More Kardashian petition and BoycottKim.com, stating that Kim Kardashian has been obsessively checking both the petition and site and that Sears may reevaluate its marketing with the family's brand.

The managing editor of one of Ethiopia's few remaining independent Amharic-language newspapers publishing critical analysis of local politics said he left the country last week for fear of arrest, a U.S.-based press freedom group said.

Defections from Morgan Keegan are slowly hollowing out the $1.5 billion brokerage, which has recruited almost no experienced hires to fill the gaps left by advisers who have left since June.

More consumers are pulling back from the housing market, which pushed down their debt levels during July through September, the New York Federal Reserve said Monday.

President Barack Obama and Justin Bieber are expected to stop traffic when the visit Rockefeller Center on Wednesday for the annual tree-lighting ceremony.

One in 10 Internet users plan to buy holiday gifts at either Groupon or LivingSocial this year, up from 4 percent last year.

The U.S. Supreme Court will review an overtime pay case from a nationwide class of GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceutical sales representatives.

A Long Island man is suing a fertility clinic that impregnated his ex-girlfriend through in-vitro fertilization with sperm he alleges was stolen from him.

Hathaway and boyfriend Adam Shulman have been dating since 2008.

Cyber Monday offers incredible discounts on airfare, hotels, cruises and more.

A woman from the Brownsville section of Brooklyn was allegedly stabbed by her own son on Sunday in front of her granddaughter, 5, and grandson, 1.

A retail space at 60 Greene Street in Manhattan's Soho neighborhood has sold for $10.35 million, according to New York City records, one of two recent deals that cement the street's reputation as a desirable retail strip. Across the street, 57-63 Greene's retail condo is close to a deal, according to David Schechtman of Eastern Consolidated, one of the listing brokers.