IBT Staff Reporter

A majority of Google mail users were unable to access the service on Tuesday afternoon, in a rare widespread outage of the popular Gmail service.

Toyota Motor Corp plans to raise production of its Tacoma and Tundra pickups to meet expected demand for trucks, and increase production of fuel-efficient vehicles through the end of the year, executives said on Tuesday.

The Australian Dollar opens sharply lower on Wednesday at 0.8260 after the Reserve Bank of Australia left interest rates unchanged at 3 per cent.

Deutsche Bank said it would redeem all of its most bullish oil exchange-traded notes (ETNs), as the U.S. government moves to boost regulation in commodities markets.

Ecuadorean authorities said on Tuesday they were looking into accusations by Chevron Corp that the judge involved in a $27 billion environmental lawsuit against the U.S. oil company is guilty of misconduct and involvement in a bribery scheme.

Luxury sportscar maker Koenigsegg is close to securing the financing needed to carry out its purchase of Saab Automobile from General Motors, a Swedish business daily reported on Tuesday.

Khosla Ventures said on Tuesday it had raised more than $1 billion for renewable energy and clean technology funds, a sign that skittish investors are hot for climate-change-related projects.

A real estate brokerage run by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc has bought a Chicago-based agency from Brookfield Residential Property Services, the latest in a series of acquisitions by Berkshire and its units.

Do once-hot Internet start-ups who miss a date with destiny ever truly get a second chance? History says no, even for once-great names like Netscape, AOL and MySpace.

AMR Corp's American Airlines said on Tuesday it would cut 921 flight attendant jobs, part of a previously announced capacity cut as the industry struggles with flagging demand.

Toyota Motor Corp plans to raise production of its Tacoma and Tundra pickups to meet expected demand for trucks, and increase production of fuel-efficient vehicles through the end of the year, executives said on Tuesday.

Ebay, the US online auction group, agreed to unload 65 per cent of its Skype internet calling service to a group of private investors for $2bn in cash and debt.

A woman in New Zealand has been reportedly awarded $17,000 after being unfairly fired for using bold, uppercase letters in an e-mail to co-workers.

U.S. stocks fell for a third straight day on Tuesday, spooked by uncertainty over the health of financials and concerns that the explosive rally since March may have run ahead of economic reality.

Olivia Rogowska, a relatively unknown Australian tennis player was close to making history on Tuesday. Rogowska was close to witnessing her opponent Dinara Safira become the first top-seeded woman to lose in the first round of the U.S. Open.

(Corrects second paragraph to say Boeing is second-largest plane-maker)

Gmail has been down since 4 pm ET on Tuesday, September 1.

U.S. stocks fell for a third straight day on Tuesday, spooked by uncertainty over the health of banks and concerns that the explosive rally since March may have run ahead of economic reality.

U.S. auto sales boomed in August as $3 billion in government incentives spurred sharp gains for Hyundai Motor Co, Ford Motor Co and Honda Motor Co and left the industry facing shortages of top-selling vehicles.

General Electric Co expects conditions in most of its core markets to remain challenging for the next 12 to 18 months, a top executive of the largest U.S. conglomerate said on Tuesday.

Hurricane Jimena has weakened slightly as it approaches the southwestern area of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula but remains an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane, the National Hurricane Center said on its latest report.

Florida's economy is shrinking in another crippling blow to the housing market of the state, which leads the United States in foreclosures and is grappling with record levels of unemployment.

The U.S. manufacturing sector grew for the first time in 19 months in August and home sales contracts hit a two-year high in July, more evidence the economy was pulling out of the worst recession in 70 years, reports on Tuesday showed.

The Internal Revenue Service plans to step up its reviews of taxpayers who take the mortgage interest deduction and target some for audit.

Boxing legend Muhammad Ali was given a hero's welcome on Tuesday when he visited Ennis, his ancestral home town in Ireland, and was made an honorary freeman at a reception watched by hundreds on big screens outside.

Car boom and bust?; A Good Sign; Raising the Stakes

Belgian finance investor RHJ International (RHJI.BR) raised the stakes in the ongoing bidding war with rival Magna (MGa.TO) for GM's GM.UL Opel unit, as sources said the U.S. automaker's board was due to discuss the deal.

Before conceiving her 19th child, Michelle Duggar,42 truly thought she was done having children, she said on her blog Tuesday.

U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday as uncertainty over financial companies' health prompted a sell-off, while concerns mounted about the validity of a rally that has driven stocks up nearly 50 percent from March.