IBT Staff Reporter

Google aims to give away thousands of websites to small Canadian businesses to encourage them to establish an online presence, the search engine's Canadian head said on Tuesday.

Disruption of the production and delivery of components used by the global technology sector continued to weigh, more than two weeks after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan.

Sen. Charles Schumer D-NY took to the Senate floor on Tuesday to press Republicans to compromise on the size of budget cuts they are seeking, while House Speaker John Boehner faulted Democrats by not passing any legislation that funds the federal government until the end of the fiscal year.

Australia's Qantas Airways plans to axe capacity and management jobs and retire some aircraft early under cost-cutting measures aimed at offsetting soaring fuel prices and the impact of natural disasters in Japan, New Zealand and Australia.

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Wal-Mart got a sympathetic hearing from several Supreme Court justices on Tuesday as the retailer sought to prevent female employees from bringing the largest class-action sex-discrimination lawsuit in history.

The economic recession that began in 2007 was uniformly damaging to U.S. states, sparing just one or two from its effects, but the recovery is promising to be uneven across the country.

AT&T Inc's $39 billion bid to buy Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile USA came under scrutiny from New York's attorney general, who said he is looking into its possible anti-competitive impact.

A former portfolio manager at Raj Rajaratnam's Galleon Group described pressure at the hedge fund to get an edge in trading and said he gave inside tips from a Morgan Stanley investment banker to his boss.

The parts shortages and resulting production shutdowns caused by the Japanese earthquake and tsunami could cause the global auto industry to rethink how it sets up its supply lines, a top industry economist said on Tuesday.

The United Auto Workers will seek a commitment from General Motors Co to build new products at two idled plants in Tennessee and Wisconsin in upcoming contract negotiations, a top union official said.

The owners of a California Web site that sold Beatles songs for 25 cents each before they went on sale legally through iTunes have agreed to pay the band's EMI Group label $950,000 to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit, court papers showed on Monday.

A U.S. court has ruled against Kuwaiti logistics company Agility on a key point of law, dealing a blow to the company's fight against charges it defrauded the U.S. Army in multibillion-dollar contracts.

Opponents of a U.S. government crackdown on debit card processing fees called for delaying its implementation on Tuesday, with one top MasterCard executive equating the proposal with creeping socialism.

Former eBay Inc Chief Executive Meg Whitman will join leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a source close to her said on Tuesday.

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Former eBay Inc Chief Executive Meg Whitman will join leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a source close to her said on Tuesday.

Amazon's new service won't save the music industry, analysts say.

Crude oil prices rose on Tuesday in technical, thin trading and lifted by stronger equities and lowered expectations about a quick return of Libya's oil exporting capabilities.

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, who returned this week to the company after a two-year absence, wants to make the microblogging site more approachable to the masses, he said on Tuesday.

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer D-NY urged House Republicans on Tuesday to abandon Tea Party demands for higher budget cuts and strike a compromise with Democrats that will prevent a federal government shutdown on April 8.

IDC says Windows Phone 7 will be in second place by 2015.

Toys 'R' Us has agreed to pay a $1.3 million penalty for violating a 1998 order that barred it from pushing suppliers to refuse to sell to competitors or from urging limits to those sales, the Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday.

A new Amazon.com Inc service that lets customers store songs and play them on a variety of phones and computers is facing a backlash from the music industry that could ignite a legal battle.

Katy Perry announced that her newest music video for her single E.T. will debut on MTV on Thursday, March 31.

Wal-Mart got a sympathetic hearing from several Supreme Court justices on Tuesday as the retailer sought to prevent female employees from bringing the largest class-action sex-discrimination lawsuit in history.

NASA has released the first ever close-up images of Mercury today, as the first spacecraft to do a detailed survey of the planet in 35 years powered up its cameras.

The Amazon's terrible 2010 drought could mean the accelerated effect of global warming.

Strength in energy lifted U.S. stocks on Tuesday as investors concentrated on adding to winning positions as the quarter winds down, but uncertainty kept trading volume light.