Companies

Apple Inc.'s visionary leader, Steve Jobs died on Wednesday.

Friendly's, the 76-year-old hamburger and ice cream casual food restaurant chain, filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 ...

Ratings agency Moody's Investors Service downgraded Bank of America Corp. (BAC), chopping the rating for long-term debt from ...

Not only is slavery still here, globalization has increased it, according to a group of business leaders. Human ...

Social networking giant Facebook Inc. is being sued for tracking users' Web activity without their permission after they ...

The release of the Kindle Fire opens up a new opportunity for Amazon's media streaming outlet that could ...

The world's largest supplier of mobile phones in terms of volume, Nokia Oyj, announced 3,500 new layoffs on ...

Boeing delivered the first 787 Dreamliner aircraft to its launch customer All Nippon Airways on Tuesday, after the ...

The new hires announced for 2011 are more than in past years, and will be located at Macy's ...

Gruebel resigned from the firm after a board of directors meeting which took place in Singapore last week.

After months of negotiations, Australia's largest brewing company Foster's Group Ltd., was sold to British brewer SABMiller Plc, ...

Rating agency Moody's Investors Service downgraded the long-term credit ratings of Wells Fargo & Co. and Bank of ...

Family-owned Italian fashion house Prada S.p.A. announced that its half-year profit jumped by 74 percent, due to sales ...

Netflix Inc., the movie rental and online streaming company, has formally segregated its DVD-by-mail business from the online ...

Shares of Research In Motion Ltd., the Canadian maker of BlackBerry handheld devices, tumbled by 19 percent last ...

UBS AG, Switzerland`s largest bank, discovered on Thursday that a rogue trader had caused a $2 billion loss ...

The phone-hacking scandal, perpetrated by one of the Murdoch empire's subsidiaries, has fascinated the British public and the ...

Cochlear Ltd. has announced a voluntary global recall on the world's leading implanted hearing device.

Conglomerate McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. on Monday said that it would split into two separate publicly listed companies to ...

Cloud computing services were recently affected with outages to both Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.

HSBC Holdings Plc has announced that it will slash around 3,000 jobs spread out over three years in ...

Google Inc., once spurned in its quest to purchase review website Yelp, acquired privately-held restaurant review firm Zagat ...

A controversial ad at a hair salon in Edmonton, Alberta, went unnoticed for over a year, then suddenly ...

Sunoco Inc., the regional oil and gas company, said that it would sell or shut down its remaining ...

Netflix Inc., the high-flying video streaming and movie rental company, may be facing a new incarnation of old ...

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has sued 17 lenders and investment banks, including some of the nation's ...

The 174 year-old French luxury label has reported an increase of 50 percent in its first half profits