IBT Staff Reporter

Television manufacturers are banking on 3D TVs for their next sales boost, with sets capable of adding that extra visual dimension expected to hit U.S. store shelves in force by the middle of 2010.

Baltimore's defeat in a lawsuit accusing Wells Fargo & Co of steering minority borrowers to expensive home loans may not derail efforts by local governments to hold the biggest mortgage providers responsible for lending they contend hurts cities.rr

Here's a prediction for 2010: Another wild ride in the stock and bond markets, in real estate and in interest rates. The economists and analysts are all over the place when it comes to this year, leaving individual investors on their own to prepare for anything and everything.

A gunman walked into a North St. Louis factory with an assault rifle and a handgun and shot at least eight people early Thursday morning, killing at least three, according to reports.

Britons snowed in by the wintry weather have been flocking to an extra-marital dating site in the last 24 hours.

Dell Inc showed off a small slate computer that it could bring to market this year, exploring yet another type of device designed for computing on the go.

A former McKinsey & Co director told a court on Thursday that Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam paid him $1.75 million in exchange for confidential information on clients to make illegal stock trades.

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The Dow and the S&P 500 rose on Thursday after Bank of America and General Electric rallied on positive broker comments, while the Nasdaq slipped as investors were cautious a day before the release of key monthly non-farm payrolls data.

Global investment in low-carbon energy dipped in 2009 after five years of annual increases fueled by a political response to climate change and high oil prices, a report found on Thursday.

The U.S. economy stopped shedding jobs in December, ending two years of uninterrupted cuts, according to the most recent Reuters poll released on Thursday.

Fourth-quarter earnings for the big U.S. investment banks could disappoint investors if falling debt trading volumes hurt what had been the banks' key profit engines in the first three quarters of 2009.

U.S. theme park operator Six Flags Inc could emerge from bankruptcy as soon as March under an $830 million financing deal it is arranging with lenders, the company said in a regulatory filing on Thursday.

The Dow and the S&P 500 rose on Thursday after Bank of America and General Electric rallied on positive broker comments, while the Nasdaq slipped as investors were cautious a day before the release of key monthly non-farm payrolls data.

General Motors Co showed off the first battery pack for its electric Chevy Volt on Thursday with a ceremony that highlighted the automaker's dependence on U.S. government financing for its revival plans.

The Federal Reserve should tighten policy sooner rather than later to contain longer-term inflation pressures and avoid sowing the seeds of the next crisis, a top Federal Reserve policy-maker said on Thursday.

A former McKinsey & Co director charged with leaking confidential information to Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam became the seventh person to plead guilty in what U.S. prosecutors have called the biggest hedge fund insider trading case ever.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday that he wanted the authorities to explore whether online advertising revenues of major search engines could be taxed in France as well as their home countries.

A former McKinsey & Co director charged with leaking confidential information to Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam became the seventh person to plead guilty in what U.S. prosecutors have called the biggest hedge fund insider trading case ever.

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who last year forced board changes at biotechnology company Biogen Idec Inc , may take aim at cross-town rival Genzyme Corp , according to a source familiar with the situation.

A former McKinsey & Co director charged with leaking confidential information to Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam became the seventh person to plead guilty in what U.S. prosecutors have called the biggest hedge fund insider trading case ever.

A wireless industry group said mobile phone conversations are safe from eavesdropping, even after a German security expert released the code for unscrambling calls made using most of the world's cell phones.

Television manufacturers are banking on 3D TVs for their next sales boost, with sets capable of adding that extra visual dimension expected to hit U.S. store shelves in force by the middle of 2010.

Motorola Inc demonstrated a prototype media tablet that could be ready commercially by the fourth quarter, though the timing partly depends on an advanced mobile network being built by Verizon Wireless.

A late holiday shopping surge helped U.S. retailers beat analysts' sales estimates for December, but industry experts see the momentum fading early in 2010 as consumers return to saving their money.

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Dell showed off a new Alienware M11x laptop that offers an 11.6 inch screen with a price tag of less than $1,000.

GameStop Corp said on Thursday holiday sales failed to improve from 2008, and cut its fourth-quarter profit forecast, sending shares of the biggest U.S. videogame retailer to a 13-month low.

Artie Lange's hospitalization earlier this week was reportedly a result of nine self-inflicted stab wounds he suffered after he attempted to commit suicide. According to a New York Post Page Six source, the troubled comic and “Howard Stern Show” regular attempted to take his own life over the weekend.

Boost, a unit of Sprint Nextel , said on Thursday that it would extend its $50-a-month unlimited service plan to the entire Sprint network in an effort to improve customer growth and handset choice.