Boys who play video games on school days spend 30 percent less time reading and girls spend 34 percent less time doing homework than those who do not play such games, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
U.S. telecommunications company AT&T Inc. said on Friday it will buy rural wireless carrier Dobson Communications Corp. for $2.8 billion in cash to expand its reach in rural and suburban markets.
Bankrupt auto parts maker Delphi Corp. will retain and operate four plants under a tentative agreement with the United Auto Workers, according to a document posted on a Web site run by union members.
The fight over higher automobile fuel efficiency standards shifts to the House of Representatives this week with big car companies regrouping after a stinging defeat in Senate energy legislation.
Documentarian Michael Moore expects drug and insurance companies to oppose his latest film.
Shares of Borders Group, Inc. (NYSE: BGP) fell more than 3 percent on Wednesday, a day after the bookseller posted another quarterly loss, seeing its deficit in the first quarter nearly doubled from the loss seen last year.
General Motors (NYSE: GM) opened an in-house rollover research crash test facility on Tuesday to study ways to reduce injuries and deaths in rollover crashes.
Ford Motor Co. (F, NYSE) said on Friday that U.S. auto sales fell by 9.7 percent for the current quarter compared to a year ago. The company also lowered its North American production estimate by 2.5 percent.
Perrigo Co.'s (PRGO) announcement last week recalling around 11 million bottles of Acetaminophen 500 mg caplets affected over 130 retailers nationwide, however the generic drug maker won't face a large hit on its earnings for the next quarter.
U.S. consumer spending slipped in August but falling gasoline prices elevated shoppers' moods by September and Midwest factory activity picked up as well, according to reports on Friday that suggested the economy was still motoring along. Meanwhile, indicators for consumer prices offered a mixed reading on inflation.
Wall Street may be on the defensive this week if reports on housing and growth suggest the United States economy is headed......
Wall Street's summer comes to a close next week with what could be a toxic mix for stocks: No major earnings, an overload of A-list economic data, a storm headed for the Gulf of Mexico and trading desks staffed with third-string dealers.
Delphi Corp., the world's largest auto-parts maker, announced on Thursday that a bankruptcy judge has agreed to postpone a hearing regarding the disposal of labor contracts until Friday, pending negotiations with unions and GM.
The University of California is joining Google Inc.'s book-scanning project, throwing the weight of another 100 academic libraries behind an ambitious venture that's under legal attack for alleged copyright infringement.
Ford Motor Co., announced a recall of 1.2 million vehicles including trucks and Sport Utility Vans (SUV) which had the cruise control feature over concerns that they could catch fire.
Ford Motor Co. today announced a loss of $254 million or 14 cents per share for the second quarter. The new amount is nearly double what the company had previously reported.
U.S. economic expansion slowed abruptly in the second quarter to less than half the pace at the start of the year, while a key inflation gauge shot up at the fastest rate since 1994, the government said on Friday.
Following a tumultous week, investors are wondering what lessons can be learned.
The latest surge in energy prices may prove the undoing for a U.S. economy already pressured by a housing slowdown and accelerating inflation.
Surging energy prices helped cause unexpected drops in U.S. retail sales in June and consumer sentiment in July, reports on Friday showed, raising the prospects the Federal Reserve may be close to halting its campaign of hiking interest rates.
The dollar fell on Friday after a tame measure of core U.S. inflation reinforced market expectations that the Federal Reserve may be nearing the end of its two-year-long monetary policy tightening cycle.
Insurer Royal & Sun Alliance is being sued in Britain for about $1 billion by General Motors, the U.S. auto giant, in a long-running dispute about personal injury claims linked to asbestos, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported.
