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Asian Stocks Rise on Yen Fall, Wall Street Jump

Asian stocks bounced back Tuesday as big corporate takeovers in the U.S. gave investors a new shot of confidence and the yen retreated from a ...

CNN to Charge Fee to Download Its iPhone App

CNN is coming out with an iPhone application Tuesday that has a feature few other news apps have tried: a price tag. There's been a ...

Japan Fears Deflation on Record Drop in Prices

The government says prices in Japan tumbled at a record pace in August amid growing worries about jobs and wages. The country's core consumer price ...

California Tax Panel Recommends Total Overhaul

A commission charged with reforming California's tax structure will recommend repealing the state sales and corporate taxes, flattening the income tax rate and taxing businesses ...

Vonage Apps Allow Free Foreign Calls for iPhone, BB

Vonage Holdings Corp., a pioneer in Internet-based home phone service, is launching applications for the iPhone and BlackBerry that undercut the international calling rates of ...

Toyota Previews All-Electric, Green Sports Car

Besides showing off its well-known hybrids, Toyota will take a slightly different tack at the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show to display a green sportscar with ...

FTC Regulates Online Reviews, Blogs, Testimonials

The Federal Trade Commission on Monday took steps to make product information and online reviews more accurate for consumers, regulating blogging for the first time ...

Las Vegas CityCenter Slashes Condo Prices

Developers of the $8.5 billion CityCenter on the Las Vegas Strip plan a 30 percent price cut on condos there that people have already agreed ...

Toyota Recall Addresses Potential Floor-Mat Problem

Toyota Motor Corp. officially recalled 3.8 million vehicles in the United States on Monday to address problems with floor mats that could cause the gas ...

Recession Offers Rare Investment Opportunities

The Great Recession has turned into the best of times for young investor Daniel Lee. Early this year, the 30-year-old salesman in Scottsdale, Ariz., shelved ...

New Apps Turn Cell Phones into Localized Guides

You're walking down the street, looking for a good place to eat. You hold up your cell phone and use it like the viewfinder on ...

Coach Sues Target for Alleged Copies of Handbags

Coach Inc. is suing low-price retailer Target Corp. over bags the luxury handbag maker says too closely resemble its own designs. Coach wants Target to ...

Olympics Urged to Plug into YouTube Generation

The Olympic movement needs to learn from the likes of YouTube or risk losing young viewers for life, IOC members were told Monday. Communications guru ...

China Gives Bombardier $4 Bil. Hi-Speed Train Contract

Train maker Bombardier Inc. said Monday its Chinese joint venture has been awarded a $4 billion contract to build 80 high-speed trains for China's railway ...

Mazda to Raise $1.1 Bil. for R&D

Japanese automaker Mazda now expects about half the red ink it previously forecast for the fiscal year, crediting a rise in demand from "green" car ...

Consumer Spending Now Driven by Amazing Bargains

There has never been a better time to be a consumer. America is on sale. The Great Recession has caused massive job losses and hardship ...

China Tycoon Floats $8 Bil.-Plan for U.S. Green Cars

Yang Rong was once celebrated as a pioneering automobile entrepreneur who founded the first Chinese company to be listed on Wall Street. Then, seven years ...

Manhattan Apartment Sales Soared in Q3

Blink. What housing downturn? Sales of apartments and co-op units in Manhattan soared between 46 and 69 percent from the second to the third quarter, ...

Japan Consumer Spending Rose 2.6% in August

Japan's jobless rate fell and household spending climbed in August — a double dose of good news for the world's No. 2 economy though it ...

Toyota Warns Against Wrong-Size Floor Mats

Toyota's president said it was "extremely regrettable" an American family died in a crash in which a floor mat in one of the Japanese automaker's ...

IBM Undercuts Google with Corporate Email Service

IBM Corp. is trying to stymie Google Inc.'s expansion into the business software market. The weapon: a bare-bones e-mail service that IBM is selling to ...

Comcast Mulls Controlling Stake in NBC Universal

Comcast Corp. might spend billions for a stake in NBC Universal, a deal that would transform the nation's largest cable TV provider into one of ...

Suntory Bids $2.7 Bil. for European Drink Maker Orangina

Japan's Suntory Holdings has made a binding offer to buy European drink maker Orangina from private equity firms Blackstone and Lion Capital, the equity firms ...

Baidu Founder Robin Li a Rock Star in Google Country

The billionaire founder of a popular search engine drew a big crowd Wednesday at Stanford University — and it wasn't one of the guys that ...

Top Russian Tycoon to Buy New Jersey Nets

Could the New Jersey Nets become the Nyets? The basketball team once known as the New Jersey Americans is a step closer to being owned ...

Stocks Take Break from Rally Ahead of Fed Decision

Stock futures are creeping higher Wednesday as investors await the Federal Reserve's decision on interest rates. Markets overseas were mixed. Asian markets fell slightly overnight, ...

Choosy McDonald's Sets Rules for Potato Farmers

From the fields of Idaho to tasting rooms in suburban Chicago, potato farmers, researchers and industry representatives are in the midst of an elusive hunt: ...

Fed Likely to Leave Supports in Place

Nurturing a nascent recovery, Federal Reserve policymakers are sure to leave a key interest rate at a record low and probably will keep other economic ...

Ford Adds Low-Cost Compact to India Lineup

Ford Motor Co. will manufacture a low-cost compact car in India from early next year, the automaker said Wednesday, as it seeks to boost sales ...

Yahoo to Spend $100 Mil. to Build Brand Buzz

Yahoo Inc. believes a lot of its good work has been overlooked by investors and the media so it's spending more than $100 million to ...

World Stocks Gain on Upbeat Asia Assessment

European stock markets followed Asia higher on Tuesday after the Asian Development Bank upgraded its growth forecasts for major economies like China and India and ...

Honda Introduces Tiny Personal Mobility Device

Honda's new "personal mobility" device looks like a unicycle, but all you need to do to zip around on it — sideways as well as ...

Singapore Cuts Citigroup Holdings to Below 5%

A Singapore sovereign wealth fund said Tuesday it has cut its stake in Citigroup Inc. from 9 percent to below 5 percent, reducing its holding ...

Facebook Scraps Beacon Tracking to Settle Lawsuits

Facebook is shutting down its much-maligned Beacon marketing program, launched nearly two years ago amid fanfare only to generate a storm of privacy complaints over ...

August Leading Indicators Higher Than Forecast

A private forecast of economic activity rose in August for the fifth straight month, the latest sign the recession has ended. The Conference Board said ...

Dell to Buy Perot Systems for $3.9

Dell Inc. plans to buy the technology services company Perot Systems Corp. for about $3.9 billion as it tries to expand beyond the PC business ...

Intel's Hardball Sales Tactics Detailed by EU

The European Union on Monday published e-mail excerpts from computer makers and Intel Corp. to show that Intel pressured chip buyers into choosing Intel over ...

Emmies Show Acknowledges Decline of TV

A year after its least-watched telecast ever, the Emmy Awards plaintively acknowledged TV's changing role in the Internet age, bringing a collective sense of reckoning ...

World Markets Slip Ahead of Fed Meeting

World stock markets were modestly lower Monday as investors look to this week's Federal Reserve meeting for more clues about the strength of the U.S. ...

10 Mil. Jobs Would Reward Climate Action Says Blair

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he hopes to break the "deadlock" in global climate talks with evidence that 10 million jobs could be ...

New Home Sales Rise but Below Expectations

New U.S. home sales posted a tepid 0.7 percent increase last month, missing Wall Street expectations and providing more evidence that the housing market recovery ...

Asian Stocks Fall on Strengthening Currencies

World stocks fell Monday after disappointing data from the U.S. undermined hopes of a fast economic recovery and a sharp strengthening in Asian currencies hurt ...

Fox Cable News Wins Big by Catering to Angry Wingnuts

Amplifying the nation's political division has been good business for Fox News Channel and MSNBC during this season of anger — but it may come ...

Xerox to Buy Affiliated Computer Svcs for $5.75 Bil.

Xerox has announced a deal to buy the business processing company Affiliated Computer Services for about $5.75 billion.

Airlines Add Baggage Fees to Europe, India, Canada

The big U.S. airlines are charging baggage fees on some international flights, generally coach tickets between Europe and the U.S. or Canada. What you should ...

China's Richest Communists Celebrate 60th Birthday

Public loudspeakers in the central square blare the village anthem hourly: "If you want to see a miracle, come to Huaxi." Not that any reminders ...

China Industrial Profits, Growth Improve in Q2

Profits at China's oil producers, steel makers and other major industrial companies fell 10.6 percent in the first eight months of 2009 from the same ...

Japan to Rescue, Restructure JAL

Japan's transport minister said Sunday he will not force the struggling Japan Airlines, Asia's biggest airline, into bankruptcy. "We will not crush and liquidate (the ...

U.S. Banks Earned $5.2 Bil. Trading Derivatives in Q2

U.S. commercial banks earned $5.2 billion trading derivatives in the second quarter, as the level of risk eased in the global market for the complex ...

Food Borne Illnesses Cost U.S. $152 Bil. A Year

Food-borne illnesses, such as E. coli and salmonella, cost the United States $152 billion annually in health care and other losses