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Intel plans to proclaim that the next big thing in consumer gadgets will be the “Internet in your pocket.”
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Douglas Merrill, a vice president of engineering at Google, is leaving the Internet search company to become a president of digital at EMI Music.
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Thornburg Mortgage shares rose nearly 20 percent Tuesday after the company, which provides large residential mortgages, said it successfully raised $1.35 billion in a last-ditch effort to avoid bankruptcy.
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DETROIT (Reuters) — O’Reilly Automotive said Tuesday that it had reached a cash-and-stock deal worth $528 million to buy a rival, the CSK Auto Corporation.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — The National City Corporation, a Midwestern bank heavily exposed to the worsening mortgage and housing market, confirmed Tuesday that it was reviewing its options amid rumors that it wants to find a buyer.
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Sponsors will get a say in content and its name on the show.
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Developers may have a tough time fitting apartments on oddly shaped lots, but the unusual dimensions have also helped create some landmark buildings.
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The credit squeeze is gradually putting tenants in the driver’s seat in Manhattan’s office market.
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The push is the latest sign of a growing consensus that broader government action is needed to prevent a torrent of new foreclosures.
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Microsoft has won an international standards designation for its open-document format, ending a yearlong battle with software rivals.
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Stocks started the second quarter with a soaring rally, as investors found reasons to believe that the drumbeat of subprime woes may be coming to an end.
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A study published by the journal Nature is raising doubts about one of the hottest fields in biotechnology, RNA interference.
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The Swiss bank, which also announced the resignation of its chairman, said the write-down would result in a $12 billion quarterly loss.
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After two years of soaring share prices, the Shanghai composite index has plunged 45 percent from its high, reached last October.
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The French financial market regulator filed a complaint against European Aeronautic, Defense & Space in connection with an inquiry into allegations of market abuses.
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News operations at several local CBS stations started a series of job cuts this week as the network itself, CBS News, moved ahead with plans to lay off about 1 percent of its nearly 1,200 employees.
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Consumers are unlikely to benefit from household versions of automated external defibrillators meant to revive victims of sudden heart seizures, a new study found.
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The agreement represents a truce between doctors and health insurers in their longstanding dispute over how health plans rank physicians’ efforts in taking care of patients.
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Critics claim Hope Now, a White House-backed group formed to help struggling homeowners, supports the interests of lenders, not homeowners.
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The tobacco giant is attacking the F.D.A. as weak and overextended amid a Congressional effort to empower the agency to regulate the tobacco industry.
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At Congressional hearings this week, Ben S. Bernanke will be asked to explain how and why the Fed has taken such extraordinary actions to curb a financial crisis.
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A hedge fund manager testified that Anthony Pellicano, the Hollywood private detective accused of wiretapping, had once offered to have a movie producer killed for him.
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With Chinese art being hot now and commanding huge prices, demand has trickled down and collectors are looking to Indonesia as the next Asian tiger.
