Toyota Motors has told US owners of their high-priced passenger cars and SUVs that they could be in for a...

The giant Anglo-Australian miner, Rio Tinto, has agreed to a joint venture with Chinese firm,...

American Airlines has decided to cut the jobs of 920 flight...

U.S. stocks lost ground Thursday although losses were...

Bangladesh has told its garment workers they can have another $20 per month in a minimum wage...

The private details of 100 million Facebook users have been published...

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California has given an executive order for some state workers to take three unpaid days off per month starting in...

The Greek government, using a rare law, has ordered truck drivers back to...

Fiat car workers in Italy have been running protests over the company’s future in its home...

A power failure contributed to a 4,500-barrel oil spill in the US in...

Aircraft giant Boeing its net profit for the April through June quarter was down due to a fall in plane...

Cadbury has seen the departure of many senior staff from its UK office since it was taken over by Kraft earlier this...

Panasonic has developed a camcorder that will record birthdays, weddings and family events in...

Some airline passengers may be feeling more comfortable in their seats, with dozens of airlines opting to install wider seats with more leg...

Continental Airlines in the US is testing a controversial self-boarding...

Palestinians have invested $20 million or more in new tourist infrastructure in...

Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 5:59 p.m. Higher shipments of blood screening products helped boost second-quarter earnings to $26.1 million for medical test maker Gen-Probe, the San Diego company said...

When Laura and George Herberg decided in 1959 to market her lefse recipe, a thriving business in tiny Gonvick, Minn., wasn't the only payoff. Offering living proof that entrepreneurship runs in the...

Ameriprise Financial Inc. shares surged 12 percent Thursday after the financial services company reported a near tripling of its second-quarter profits, propelled largely by stock market gains and a...

TOKYO - Asian stocks slipped early Friday, after shares on Wall Street fell amid uncertainty about current economic conditions.Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average was down 1.2 percent at...

Treasury prices were mixed Thursday after U.S. companies reported strong earnings and the government said new jobless claims fell but remain elevated.The price of the 10-year note slipped 3.125 cents...

Oil prices rose Thursday as better-than-expected earnings from Exxon Mobil Corp., Southwest Airlines Co. and others bolstered hope for an improving economy.Benchmark crude for September delivery rose...

Banking titan Citigroup Inc. is paying $75 million to settle civil charges that it misled investors about its potential losses from subprime mortgages as the housing bust hit in 2007.The Securities...

IDG News Service - Microsoft's chief executive on Thursday sought to address some common questions raised by analysts, but his answers may not have been exactly what they were looking for. While...

(AP) - Among the earnings stories for Thursday, July 29, from AP Financial News: PLANO, Texas (AP) — Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc. reported that its net income rose in its second quarter but...

July 29 (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration rejected challenges to its finding last year that climate change caused by emissions of greenhouse gases is a danger to public...

July 30 (Bloomberg) -- Islamic bonds gained at half the pace of emerging-market debt in July. Fund managers say they may make up the lost ground as funds flow into developing nations and Dubai World...

July 30 (Bloomberg) -- Aluminum Corp. of China Ltd., the nation’s biggest producer of the metal, rose in Shanghai trading after agreeing to buy a stake in Rio Tinto Group’s Simandou iron...

July 29 (Bloomberg) -- Arizona appealed a judge’s ruling that struck key provisions of a state law requiring police to determine the immigration status of people stopped for questioning, said...

July 30 (Bloomberg) -- Japan’s unemployment unexpectedly rose for a fourth straight month and industrial production fell the most in more than a year, signaling the economic expansion is poised...

July 30 (Bloomberg) -- Emerging-market equity and bond fund inflows rose in the week ended July 28 as European bank stress tests and U.S. earnings reports bolstered investor optimism, EPFR Global...

July 29 (Bloomberg) -- Samuel Wyly and Charles Wyly, Texas- based entrepreneurs who financed ads supporting George W. Bush’s presidential campaigns, were sued by U.S. regulators for allegedly...

July 30 (Bloomberg) -- Nomura Holdings Inc., Japan’s biggest securities firm, offered jobs to 40 students at triple the normal starting salary under a new plan to strengthen its international...

SAN FRANCISCO: Google says its search engine and several other services are working normally in mainland China after previously reporting the service had been completely blocked. The company's...

VANCOUVER — Canadian stock markets recovered from morning jitters to finish Thursday’s session with modest gains, as resource stocks rallied on strong second-quarter earnings reports. On Wall...

July 30 (Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks fell, dragging down the MSCI Asia Pacific Index for the first time in six days as higher unemployment in Japan and a Macquarie Group Ltd. earnings outlook...

Microsoft has signed a deal to bring cloud computing applications to customers of the LG Uplus telecommunications service.Under the deal, Microsoft will work with the Korean telco provider to offer ...

Microsoft is trying to generate interest in its upcoming Office for Mac 2011 productivity suite by drip-feeding information about new features.The company has released...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- While Microsoft Corp.'s chief executive may have said that no one at the software giant is "sleeping at the switch" when it comes to the emerging tablet, it still...

July 30, 2010 TOKYO, July 30 (Reuters) - Japanese government bond futures edged up on Friday after Japan's industrial output fell unexpectedly in a sign production is levelling out, but investor ...

July 30, 2010 * Demonstrators block street, at least 48 arrests * U.S. District judge who blocked law receives hate mail * Shattered window, bullet found at Rep. Grijalva's office * Ruling...

July 30, 2010 By Hideyuki Sano TOKYO, July 30 (Reuters) - The dollar eked out small gains against the euro in early trade on Friday, but remained on the defensive near a three-month low against...

IM ) second-quarter profit more than doubled on lower operating costs and charges, and as worldwide sales rose sharply and results topped expectations. The computer-equipment distributor serves as a...

July 30, 2010 SHANGHAI, July 30 (Reuters) - Google Inc said on Friday the firm's report that web searches in China were being blocked could have been the result of its own technical glitch that...

July 30, 2010 TOKYO, July 30 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei average lost 0.6 percent on Friday, with tech shares down after weak outlooks from U.S. technology companies and downbeat comments by a...

July 29, 2010 (For more stories on the Japanese economy, click) TOKYO, July 30 (Reuters) - St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard said the risk of deflation in the United States...

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote Friday on remaking the entire offshore-drilling system, setting up a fight over how far the government should go in removing...

DOW JONES NEWSWIRES Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Ltd. (1038.HK) has bought France's EDF U.K. electricity unit for GBP5.8 billion ($9.05 billion), the Financial Times reported Friday, citing...

July 29, 2010 MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican police have arrested an official at state oil monopoly Pemex on suspicion of trying to sell an exploration contract for around $19,000, the attorney...