Social networking company FriendFinder Networks Inc indefinitely shelved its planned $220 million initial public offering on Friday, citing market conditions.
The palm-fringed Art Deco hotels and glitzy Ocean Drive familiar from the movies and fashion magazines are actually across Biscayne Bay on the island of Miami Beach, so stay at a hotel in the South Beach neighborhood where a lot of the fun is an easy walk away.
A man was killed in a rare shark attack Wednesday afternoon in the south of Stuart Beach, in Florida authorities said.
President Barack Obama participated in a YouTube interview at 1:45 p.m. on Monday to answer questions submitted by YouTube users during and after the State of the Union.
Linebacker Jordan Hicks of Lakota West High School in West Chester, Ohio who is one of the elite recruits in the U.S., announced Friday afternoon that he chose the scholarship offered by Texas.
President Barack Obama vowed on Thursday he would not rest until U.S. businesses were hiring again, as he took his recast agenda on the road and sought to dig out of his deepest political rut since taking office.
NASA is set to receive a $6 billion fund injection over the next five years in a bid for ocompanies to develop rockets capable of taking astronauts to the International Space Station.
California and Florida high-speed rail projects were the biggest beneficiaries of more than $8 billion dollars in federal grants announced on Thursday.
At a time when India's steel industry is slowly rising prices, its counterparts in the US are struggling to do the same as the production costs have gone up. But, the US steel industry is very skeptical about the prices rise as the demand for steel is yet to pick up properly in the country. Even as India and China are witnessing a major surge in demand for steel, the US industry is still slowly picking up pace.
U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday challenged Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's credibility after he said he was not involved with AIG's decision to withhold details on $62 billion the bailed-out insurer paid to banks.
The Swiss government said it was sure it could resolve a legal impasse threatening a deal struck by the U.S. and bank UBS to hand over data on clients the U.S. suspects of dodging taxes.
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will announce $8 billion in stimulus funds for the construction of high-speed rails across the country, Tampa Congresswoman Kathy Castor confirmed in a press release today.
Twitter has temporarily disabled one of the features on its website after a security researcher warned of a programing flaw that left the login credentials of its users vulnerable to hackers.
A flaw in Twitter's website has left the login credentials of its users vulnerable to hackers, according to a security researcher who has asked the social media company to fix the problem.
Three major regional banks said loan problems buffeted fourth-quarter results but may be coming under control after two hard years.
Three big Midwestern banks posted better-than-expected results on Thursday, signaling the credit picture may be improving for banks in one of the U.S. regions hardest hit by the extended recession.
Once you board the majestic Carnival Pride resort ship, you are in the world of pleasure. For the next seven days, there is nothing to worry about. You are pampered and well fed. Exotic destinations wait for you to explore. And, most of all, you will not be bored.
Fifth Third Bancorp reported a much smaller fourth-quarter loss on Thursday after it recorded fewer writedowns on mortgages and other loans.
The U.S. agency charged with dismantling or selling off failed banks said it is equipped to deal with what it sees as a busy 2010, according to remarks to be delivered before Congress on Thursday.
U.S. foreclosure actions shattered all records in 2009 and will do so again this year, with unemployment and wage cuts overcoming programs to remedy failing home loans, RealtyTrac said on Thursday.
The chief whistleblower in the UBS AG tax secrecy probe entered prison to serve a sentence he considered unfair, hours after a Swiss court ruled the bank should not have been forced to turn over client files to government investigators.
The U.S. International Trade Commission said on Friday that it found no violation of General Electric wind turbine patents by Mitsubishi, and it terminated its investigation.