IBT Staff Reporter

With the $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype having been confirmed, it remains to be seen if Microsoft Corp., with access to Skype's desktop and mobile apps, can use the technology to upgrade its line of existing services.

Oct 15, 2011

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said China's exchange rate would remain stable to protect exporters, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

Oct 15, 2011

Follow the live coverage as Liverpool and Manchester United will resume their age-old rivalry when they meet at Anfield in Saturday's early kick-off.

Oct 15, 2011

With one-third of the Dow components and crowd favorite Apple reporting results next week, U.S. stocks are setting the stage for another week of gains.

Oct 15, 2011

Follow the live coverage as Liverpool and Manchester United will resume their age-old rivalry when they meet at Anfield in Saturday's early kick-off.

Oct 15, 2011

The world's leading economies kept the pressure firmly on Europe to sort out its debt crisis on Saturday with the sense of urgency to be reflected in a communique at the end of a G20 finance chiefs' meeting.

Oct 15, 2011

The California Government has dubbed Oct. 16 as Steve Jobs Day, as Apple holds a memorial service for the creator of Apple at the Stanford University on Sunday.

Oct 15, 2011

The world's leading economies kept the pressure firmly on Europe to sort out its debt crisis on Saturday with the sense of urgency to be reflected in a communique at the end of a G-20 finance chiefs' meeting.

Oct 15, 2011

Chelsea will host their 'bogey team' Everton at Stamford Bridge in Saturday's late kick-off in the Premiership.

Oct 15, 2011

The Premier League returns after the international break with arch-rivals Liverpool and Manchester United battling it out in the early kick-off on Saturday.

Oct 15, 2011

Debt holders of Energy Conversion Devices have formed an ad-hoc committee and hired legal and restructuring advisors, as the company faces the same pressures that led to the high-profile bankruptcy of Solyndra, said a source familiar with the matter.

Oct 15, 2011

The world has lost another computer pioneer. Dennis Ritchie, the computer scientist who invented the C programing language and co-developed the Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70.

Oct 15, 2011

A day after California prison officials declared a 3-week-old hunger strike by thousands of convicts over, an inmate advocacy group said on Friday that at least 150 prisoners were still refusing to eat.

Oct 15, 2011

Memphis Beat has struck its last note.

Oct 15, 2011

It's been said that what the world knows about the United States is what people see in Hollywood movies, and those perceptions could soon become reality in Texas.

Oct 15, 2011

It was 68 degrees by 8:00 in the morning Friday, but the loyal fans who had lined up outside the Apple Store at 1 Stockton Street in San Francisco had already braved (slightly) less hospitable temperatures.

Oct 15, 2011

Union leaders lobbying to win ratification for a proposed four-year contract with Ford Motor Co won new support in a close vote with five days remaining, a union online update showed on Friday.

Oct 14, 2011

Apple Inc co-founder and technology visionary Steve Jobs will be memorialized at a private service at Stanford University on Sunday, a source with knowledge of the event said.

Oct 14, 2011

John Stuart has been chained to his BlackBerry for years, first as a systems manager for Wall Street bank Morgan Stanley and then as chief information officer for Beverly Hills Wealth Management.

Oct 14, 2011

Calpers, the biggest U.S. public pension fund, said Friday it would withhold its votes for the re-election of Rupert Murdoch and sons James and Lachlan to the News Corp. board of directors.

Oct 14, 2011

Calpers, the biggest U.S. public pension fund, said on Friday it would withhold its votes for the reelection of Rupert Murdoch and sons James and Lachlan to the News Corp board of directors.

Oct 14, 2011

Actress Lindsay Lohan on Friday struck back at suggestions she was shirking tasks assigned to her under a court-ordered probation, saying the media speculation to that effect has no truth to it.

Oct 14, 2011

When the body of former CIA director William Colby was found underwater near his vacation home in Rockpoint, Maryland 15 years ago, no one suspected murder, but his son Carl Colby has never ruled it out.

Oct 14, 2011

When the Department of Defense decided it needed a device that could detect heartbeats from hundreds of feet away, it didn't know where to look. So it turned to some tech-savvy friends: venture capitalists.

Oct 14, 2011

American Airlines, a unit of AMR Corp , and its pilots planned weekend contract talks amid fresh signs the two could be nearing a deal after five years of mostly bitter bargaining, chiefly over wages and job protection.

Oct 14, 2011

The U.S. Treasury Department said it would delay until later this year a ruling due on Saturday on whether China was manipulating its currency to gain an unfair trade advantage.

Oct 14, 2011

Apple Inc's new iPhone debuted with a splash across the globe, spurring thousands to queue around city blocks and snap up the final gadget unveiled during co-founder Steve Jobs' life.

Oct 14, 2011

Stocks scored their first back-to-back weekly gains since early July on Friday, on strong Google earnings and as investors kept riding the optimism for a solution to the euro zone's debt crisis.

Oct 14, 2011

The U.S. budget gap widened slightly in fiscal 2011, staying above $1 trillion for a third straight year and providing fodder for a political battle over taxes and spending ahead of next year's presidential election.

Oct 14, 2011