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Ethical considerations be damned -- single NYC men are not known for their willingness to pick up every tab. How did she pull this off?

Thomson Reuters Corp Chief Executive Tom Glocer is stepping down at the end of the year following a slump in the share price in recent months. He will be replaced by Chief Operating Officer James Smith, a veteran Thomson executive who has run the company's most successful operations.

Despite very public instances of the negative consequences of hazing, there are benefits to the method.

Brazilian-born beauty Angel Adriana Lima is one of the world's most celebrated supermodels and is best known as a Victoria's Secret Angel.

Donald Ramotar of the ruling People's Progressive Party (PPP/C) will be the next Guyanese president, scoring the fifth straight such victory for the party.

Zynga, the online gaming site partially owned by facebook, filed a revised IPO document Friday indicating plans to raise as much as $1 billion, which could be the most since Google’s 2004 offering.

European shares rose on Friday at mid-day and were headed for their biggest weekly gain in three years on hopes of a bold solution to the euro zone debt crisis at a summit next week.

The Nikkei average extended gains to log its biggest weekly advance in two years on Friday, though the mood was far from upbeat given uncertainty over whether Europe will next week manage to cobble together steps to counter the debt crisis there.

News of the makeover comes on the heels of an announcement in October, of a massive $100 million investment in original video programming deals with major media houses.

The Nikkei average edged up Friday, with investors focused on whether the benchmark can hold above its 25-day moving average ahead of crucial U.S. employment data later in the day.

Three prominent United States senators wrote a letter to numerous drug makers Thursday, inquiring about Pfizer Inc.'s deals with insurers and pharmacy benefit managers that might limit the market for the selling of generic versions of the company's Lipitor cholesterol drug.

Steve Case, who guided AOL’s explosive growth, said his Revolution Growth Fund has raised $450 million to be invested in promising East Coast start-ups.

Gold prices slipped modestly Thursday as investors booked profits from this week's 3.3 percent rally in the yellow metal.

European equities fell in choppy trade on Thursday, as a key index failed to break an important resistance level and weak macro economic data prompted profit taking after sharp gains in the previous session.

U.S. manufacturing expanded at a faster rate in November and the overall economy grew for the 30th consecutive month, according to a closely watched index released Thursday.

Shares of Hewlett-Packard, the world’s biggest computer company, rose slightly Thursday, a day after Standard & Poor’s downgraded the company’s credit two notches.

Lady Gaga has said that she wants her next boyfriend to be both physically and mentally equipped, the latter preferably being a Harvard University degree.

Woodford, who blew the whistle on accounting tricks at Olympus after he was sacked in October, said he was putting together a team of candidates for a new board and talking to shareholders about replacing the current leadership, hopefully by February.

The U.S. Medicare program for the elderly will cover counseling for obesity in an effort to reduce the condition that has reached epidemic proportions and leads to serious health problems.

Debt auctions in France and Spain gave some respite to battered Eurozone bond markets on Thursday, attracting solid demand and at lower yields than previously feared, a day after central banks took concerted action on banking liquidity.

Yahoo Inc. will be closely watched in the U.S. stock market on Thursday after a report that Alibaba, Softbank Corp., Blackstone Group and Bain Capital are said to be in advanced discussions to make a bid for all of Yahoo.