IBT Staff Reporter

In response to a Federal Communications Commission letter prompted by an AT&T complaint, Google says limits on Google Voice calls are due to exorbitant rates.

The S&P 500 managed a sixth consecutive day of gains on Monday to end at its closing high for the year as energy shares rose alongside the price of oil.

The Obama administration has helped pull the U.S. economy back from the abyss with aggressive efforts to spur growth and stabilize financial markets, a top White House adviser said on Monday.

The Obama administration has helped pull the U.S. economy back from the abyss with aggressive efforts to spur growth and stabilize financial markets, a top White House adviser said on Monday.

Official Washington sounded more upbeat on Monday than it has for weeks in sizing up U.S. President Barack Obama's chances of progress on a climate-change bill in Congress this year.

Comeback pop singer, Whitney Houston, will tour Europe next year making it her first tour in eleven years.

China National Offshore Oil Corp is in talks with Ghana National Petroleum Corp to bid for a stake in a large oil discovery off West Africa, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing unnamed sources.

The Flaming Lips will play a secret show in Hollywood on Thursday, two days after the release of the Oklahoma City band's first studio album in three years.

The allure of a bigger share of the fast-growing wind power market might force larger engineering companies to target American Superconductor Corp, a maker of electrical systems that run wind farms and turbines.

Arthur Levinson, former chairman of Genentech, has resigned from Google's board of directors, effective immediately, Google said Monday.

The worst U.S. recession since the Great Depression has ended, but weak household spending as the labor market struggles to create jobs will slow the pace of the economy's recovery, according to a survey released on Monday.

Google Inc said on Monday that Arthur Levinson has resigned from its board in a move that appears to defuse regulatory scrutiny into the ties between the boards of Google and Apple Inc.

Oil jumped 2 percent on Monday on optimism about the pace of global economic recovery and as cold weather across the United States boosted fuel demand.

Each September I attempt to extend my New York summer by a week or two and

Gains in cash crudes due to economic factors early in the week are expected to be limited by continuing lower demand from refiners, who are still contending with reduced demand and seeing a weak outlook for the coming year.

People come to Paris to swoon under a scintillating Eiffel Tower, to see what all the Mona Lisa fuss is about, or to catch a peek of a real live gargoyle from a Notre Dame bell tower. The City of Lights is not, however, a popular destination for runners.

U.S. stocks trimmed gains to trade flat on Monday as investors locked in some profits in cautious trading before earnings season picks up steam.

Users of Microsoft Corp's Sidekick mobile phone may have permanently lost data such as contacts, photos and calendar entries due to the failure of a Microsoft server computer.

Oil jumped nearly 2 percent on Monday on optimism about the pace of global economic recovery and as cold weather across the United States boosted fuel demand.

An intense shooting lasting several minutes Thursday night in a northwestern Ohio bar left no dead people but police are searching for the five men involved.

KB Home shares fell 6 percent Monday, the first trading day after the homebuilder said it was being investigated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over possible accounting and disclosure issues.

Citigroup Inc has been fined $600,000 by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority over failing to police derivatives transactions that helped foreign clients avoid taxes on dividends.

Citigroup Inc has been fined $600,000 by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority for failing to police derivatives transactions, including those that helped foreign clients avoid taxes on dividends.

Oprah Winfrey has had pretty good luck in litigation during her career.

Actor Orlando Bloom, star of the Pirates of the Caribbean and Lord of the Rings movies, was named a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations children's organization UNICEF on Monday.

Buoyed by a substantial first-place U.K. debut, the Pixar cartoon Up reclaimed the No. 1 spot on the foreign box office during the weekend.

Energy Secretary Steven Chu said on Monday he was still hopeful President Barack Obama would be able to sign a domestic carbon-cutting bill before a crunch global climate meeting in Copenhagen in December.

The president of carbon offset developer Blue Source said his company and Goldman Sachs Group have completed a transaction of carbon credits worth $12 million that he called the largest publicly announced U.S. offset deal.