IBT Staff Reporter

Tips from whistleblowers to the Securities and Exchange Commission have increased significantly since the Wall Street reform law was enacted last year, an agency official said on Friday.

Cheryl Cole, the X Factor judge, has reportedly rented a mansion for £3,500-a-week in the suburb Hadley Wood, London.

Tommy Mottola, former chairman and CEO of Sony Music Entertainment, has sold his Wildcat Ranch property in Pitkin County for around $17.8 million, according to a news report by Wall Street Journal.

A Canadian court struck down on Friday a federal government move to allow Globalive, a company with substantial foreign control, to operate a wireless service in Canada.

Tips from whistleblowers to the Securities and Exchange Commission have increased significantly since the Wall Street reform law was enacted last year, an agency official said on Friday.

Chrysler Group LLC is working to refinance what its chief executive characterized as shyster loans that the Obama administration extended as part of a bailout to keep the automaker from collapse in 2009.

China's yuan currency remains substantially undervalued and should be permitted to appreciate more rapidly but there isn't enough evidence to conclude that Beijing deliberately manipulates its value, the U.S. Treasury department said on Friday.

The pace of economic recovery has reached escape velocity from the worst recession in decades, though the nation may not return to full employment until 2014, a top Federal Reserve researcher said on Friday.

Forensic psychiatrist Gerald Bryant details the personality traits of Bernie Madoff-like of Ponzi schemers.

Corning Inc is looking to boost sales of its glass more than 50 percent by 2014, banking on the popularity of tablets and smartphones, which helped boost its shares 3.5 percent on Friday.

Bank of America Corp appointed on Friday a new foreclosure and loan modifications czar, and created a new unit to oversee problem home loans in a bid to sort out its on-going foreclosure issues, becoming the first large U.S. bank to do so.

No longer Wall Street's top over-achiever, network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc must persuade wary investors it can fight off rivals such as Hewlett-Packard Co and soothe concerns about public sector spending cuts.

According to a recent survey, Wi-Fi borrowing is up 18 percent from December 2008.

The S&P 500 posted its best week in nine on Friday as the market defied calls for a pullback, and investors rotated into defensive and lagging sectors in a move that could intensify in coming weeks.

Tighter budgets at the Securities and Exchange Commission could mean killing vital technology upgrades needed to catch swindlers, the agency's chief said on Friday in a blunt appeal for more funding.

Experts trying to figure out how to avoid another flash crash are considering big changes to the U.S. stock marketplace, and one is recommending special rebates during times of stress and a crackdown on off-exchange dark trading.

The pace of economic recovery has reached escape velocity from the worst recession in decades, though the nation may not return to full employment until 2014, a top Federal Reserve researcher said on Friday.

The owners of the New York Mets were accused of reaping $300 million of fictitious profits from Bernard Madoff's record Ponzi scheme, a lawsuit by the trustee seeking money for Madoff's victims said.

The media artists, Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico, say they used customized software to take Facebook data and eventually create a dating website.

Telcel, the commercial brand of tycoon Carlos Slim's cell phone giant America Movil, proposed new, lower fees for its rivals to connect to the company's massive network in Mexico on Friday.

U.S. stocks, led by insurer Aetna, finished the day strong amid a conflicting U.S. jobs report from the Dept. of Labor.

Tighter budgets at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission could mean killing vital technology upgrades needed to catch swindlers, the agency's chief said on Friday in a blunt appeal for more funding.

Steven A. Cohen, whose hedge fund firm SAC Capital Advisors has drawn scrutiny in a federal insider trading probe, may be facing a more pressing problem: diminishing returns.

Researchers at Sophos, a computer security firm, have found that apps from the Android Market automatically download to a mobile device once the user chooses the app on the Web site, leaving users open to some types of attack.

Analyst Kim Caughey Forrest says Verizon's record sale of iPhones today was old news before it even happened.

Public furor over bankers' pay seems to be abating in the United States but is still strong in Europe, which could give American banks an edge in recruiting staff around the world.

Verizon Wireless ended online sales of Apple Inc's iPhone on Thursday evening, after beating its previous launch-day phone sales record in just two hours.

The owners of the New York Mets baseball team turned a blind eye to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme and should give up roughly $300 million of fictitious profits tied to the now imprisoned swindler, a lawsuit charges.

The following is an edited interview with Ellen Lust, a professor of political science at Yale University