IBT Staff Reporter

Over the next few weeks, Britney Spears and Lady Gaga will go neck-to-neck with their respective tracks 'Hold it against me' and 'Born this way'. In the wake of HIAM video premier, 'Queen Gaga' is trending on Twitter.

A Beverly Hills bariatric surgeon has offered tips when considering a Lap Band procedure.

This will be their fifth outing together.

Eben Moglen, professor of law and legal history, is reportedly trying to rebuild the Internet in a way that will make it impossible for governments or corporate authorities to restrict its use and access.

The world's second-largest mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics and South Korea's top automaker Hyundai Motor are considering joint development of a smart car.

Top 5 videos of Britney Spears, released before the premier of 'Hold it against me' from 'Femme Fatale' album includes: Toxic, I'm a slave 4 u, Stronger, Womanizer, and Baby One More Time.

Ira Kalb, professor of Marketing at the Marshall School of Business elaborates on BNET on the concrete branding lessons that youth icons Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber present for marketing professionals around the world.

The overall cost to the UK economy from cyber crime is £27bn per year, according to a report commissioned by the Cabinet Office into the integrity of computer systems and threats of industrial espionage.

President Barack Obama's fiscal 2012 budget proposal to Congress showed a small decline from what is expected to be the previous year's budget, with the deficit set to decrease by nearly a third thanks mostly to higher taxes.

Edgar Miles Bronfman, Jr., CEO of Warner Music Group , listed his Manhattan’s Upper East Side townhouse for $27.25 million today. The mansion is former home to Muppets creator Jim Henson and his puppet-designing team.

Britney Spears is making her comeback Thursday night. Weeks after releasing her new single, Hold It Against Me, Britney's new video will premiere at 9:55 p.m. on MTV.

Pop star Britney Spears has recently purchased a nearly 20,000 square foot Tudor-style mansion in hidden Hills area of Los Angeles. The house is situated on a 3.39-acre village-like estate and comes with an entertainment complex with arcade, wood-paneled ballroom, fitness center, poker playing room, and even staff apartments.

In honor of her birthday let's take a look back at some of her most memorable moments in the spotlight.

You can't really blame financial hacks for getting things so wrong, so often. Because every financial decision you now make is a speculation on interest rates. And so pretty much every story a financial journalist might choose to write must start and end with the same speculation, built on the inaction of each monthly central-bank vote.

Criticism of China's exchange-rate policy continues throughout the US. This column argues that the US is in fact the exchange rate manipulator, due to its ongoing quantitative easing. What the US needs to do for a sustainable turnaround is to learn from other successful economies like China and Germany - not de-rail them.

A video made by compiling several images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the powerful flares that erupted earlier this week.

The NTIA released a map that shows broadband access across the United States. Despite growth, the digital divide is still very much in place.

Comments from Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha suggest that Google may be on the verge of launching its competitor to iTunes.

Radio frequency exposure from cell phones is not linked to brain cancer, according to a study by British scientists

The price of large, wholesale Gold Bars continued rising for US investors on Thursday, ending London trade at a 5-week high of $1383 per ounce as world stock markets held flat and the Dollar slipped on the currency market.

Abandoned by Nokia, Intel says its on the hunt for future partner for its Meego operating system.

The hit television show Glee made history as it now holds the title of having more songs on Billboard's Hot 100 chart than anyone.

James Earl Jones appeared on the Gayle King Show and did a dramatic reading of Justin Bieber's hit song, Baby.

Sony's tablet was missing at this year's Mobile World Congress, but the company aims to fix that this fall.

IBM announced an agreement with Nuance Communications, a speech recognition provider, to develop and commercialize Watson's advanced analytics capabilities in the health-care industry.

Reports have surfaced that President Barack Obama is meeting with several tech executives including Apple's Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.

The troubled actor took time off from his show Two and a Half Men for rehabilitation. The show will produce four more episodes before wrapping up its seventh season. This is four fewer than what was originally promised.

A former U.S. Customs inspector was arrested on Tuesday after he disguised himself as a postman and attempted to smuggle a Mexican woman into Texas on false documents, U.S. Customs and Border Protection authorities said.

A Beverly Hills attorney has been sentenced to four months in county jail after he pleaded no contest to a single charge of attempting to smuggle black tar heroin into the downtown Los Angeles courthouse.