Google has been ordered to allow entertainment giant, Viacom, access to details of the video-watching habits of visitors the YouTube...

US firms have made redundant 60,000 Americans over the past...

An Air France Concorde aircraft which crashed in 2000, killing 113 people, is the subject of a court case in the US, for which people are to stand trial for...

US regulators in the US state of Georgia have said a popular amusement park will have to increase the size and number of warning signs near its roller...

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has warned his government will not tolerate further street protests against US meat...

Traders knocked off early Thursday ahead of the July 4 weekend....

US stock indices saw mixed results Thursday as oil prices continued climbing to record highs and the US economy shed more...

LONDON (MarketWatch) - European shares drifted lower on Friday in subdued trade as banks declined and miners also lost ground, though UBS rallied after the Swiss bank quelled fears that it would have...

Job losses in June were slightly worse than the 40,000 expected by economists surveyed by MarketWatch. The unemployment rate was expected to fall to...

PENSACOLA, Fla.--If you've ever watched a Blue Angels show, you may not have known that when the F-18 pilots are screaming across the sky, less than 2 feet apart, they're probably not looking...

Tom Krazit: Now for you, the editor who started this crap. First, you TOO need to learn how to write more effectively. If you're going to post an article with the subject heading, "Apple cuts price...

On Thursday's edition of the Daily Debrief, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Dan Farber discuss the latest development in Viacom's copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube and its parent...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Court documents have revealed an internal valuation at Facebook Inc. far below the $15 billion cited publicly at the time of Microsoft Corp.'s investment in the popular...

At the Gibson custom factory in Nashville, Tenn., the famous guitar manufacturer makes its most expensive and exclusive instruments, including an ongoing series of limited-edition replicas of...

TWO big things happened at Microsoft this past week. Bill Gates retired from the company after 32 years as co-founder, guiding spirit and undisputed boss. Then, following seven years as its flagship...

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Swiss banking giant UBS said Friday that it expects to roughly break even in the second quarter, after a 3 billion Swiss franc ($2.93 billion) tax credit helped offset further...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- Coastal drilling for oil is mindless, not only from a supply perspective but from an environmental...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The credit crunch and near-collapse of Bear Stearns has triggered a "flight to quality" in the prime brokerage business as hedge funds shift assets to the largest, most...

I am surprised by how many oil stocks are acting like dogs in the wake of buoyant oil futures quotes. The crude oil surge in commodity markets amounts to 50% since year's end, but oil stocks show...

McCann Worldgroup to create a campaign driving uptake of its IM and email by affiliating with ten charitable organizations. Driving the campaign is the demographically-profiled and completely fake...

Big Oil shares closed lower in Europe on Thursday, another sign that sentiment in the sector is turning despite record crude prices. But industry-watchers believe this is no time to bail out of the...

. And a lot of those people apparently see no compelling reason to change. The report indicates that those users are not itching to make a change to a speedier broadband connection in large part...

Rates on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages dropped to 5.92 percent from 6.04 percent. The five-year adjustable-rate mortgage fell to 5.78 percent from 5.99 percent. The rate on a one-year adjustable-rate...

Google is making its Google Talk instant-messaging application available for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch. One of Google's software engineers posted the news in...

Stuart Cohen enjoyed a lot of media attention in his days running Open Source Development Labs so it's good to see him back in the business press spreading to good word on open source with the new...

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Japan's Nikkei 225 index ended lower Friday to log its 12th straight decline and move a step closer to a losing string not seen on the Tokyo benchmark in 54...

Anyone who has managed to forget about fuel prices long enough to enjoy a little retail therapy knows some steep discounts are available these days.'I've noticed there is a ton of stuff on sale,'...

By Walker Simon NEW YORK (Reuters) - It will be tough for Wall Street to shake off the bear market blues next week if the price of oil keeps rising and the earnings season kick-off from Alcoa and ...

And here's the big one. Shooting guns accurately takes considerable practice to begin with. Now put yourself on a continuously mobile platform and give yourself a rifle with a good kick and that...

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Japan's Nikkei 225 index struggled to stay in positive territory before heading downhill Friday afternoon, toward a losing streak not seen on the Tokyo benchmark in 54...

Yelle says she sings in "80's French"--which sounds kind of confusing until you hear her punky electro tracks that remind us of Stereo Totale and Electrocute. Fronting a fashiony, stylish movement...

The Dow Theory, of course, is the oldest stock market timing system in widespread use today. Its author was William Peter Hamilton, who introduced it in a series of editorials in The Wall Street...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Much of the baseball world is praying for the Chicago Cubs to reach the World Series for the first time since 1945 -- and to go on to win the Fall Classic for the first time...

) , or Petrobras, will be invited to help develop China's offshore oil reserves, the president of China National Offshore Oil Corp., or Cnooc, told the local Estado news...

Posted on: Friday, 4 July 2008, 00:00 CDT NEW YORK: Microsoft is preparing a new bid for Yahoo Inc's search business and has approached other media companies about joining it in a deal that would...

Posted on: Friday, 4 July 2008, 00:00 CDT By The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Unable to strike a deal on its own, Microsoft Corp. reportedly is hoping to snap up Yahoo's online search...

Starbucks wants to get back to its roots to help turn around its ailing fortunes. It brought back pioneering Chief Executive Howard Schultz to run the coffee chain day to day, and it has introduced a...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Starting next month, it will be "TGIT" for Utah state employees. As in: "Thank God It's Thursday."In a yearlong experiment aimed at reducing the state's energy costs and commuters'...

Wary of higher energy and commodity prices, the European Central Bank raised its benchmark interest rate Thursday by a quarter percentage point to 4.25 percent, a move it hopes will help curtail...

The former head of Refco Inc., blamed for the collapse of one of the world's largest commodities brokerages, was sentenced to 16 years in prison Thursday by a judge who decried the "staggeringly...

Nebraska Beef Ltd. is expanding a recall announced earlier this week to include all 5.3 million pounds of meat it produced for ground beef between May 16 and June...

Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which...

Two lawyers accused of defrauding their clients in a diet-drug settlement of $65 million were sent back to jail Thursday after a jury deadlocked and a federal judge declared a...

A French judge ordered Continental Airlines and five people to stand trial on charges of manslaughter for the 2000 crash of a Concorde jet that killed 113 people, a prosecutor said...

A Delaware judge on Thursday granted preliminary approval of a proposed settlement in a shareholder lawsuit against mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp., which was acquired by North...

Higher oil prices caused service businesses to shrink in June, as falling new orders and rising costs hit the nation's coffee shops, paper mills and corner...

A federal judge in New York is urging Eli Lilly and Co. to settle a multibillion-dollar lawsuit filed by insurance companies, unions and others who claim the pharmaceutical giant overpriced its...

Mark Zuckerberg, what hath thou wrought? A Facebook invitation for a massive beach party in Britain looked to ensure an event so wild and widespread that the local police felt the need to impose a...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Check the label of even a mildly sweet packaged food product these days and you're likely to find an ingredient called high fructose corn...

(CBS News) Soaring fuel costs are taking some of the celebration out of this holiday weekend.Oil prices headed into the busy Fourth of July break by racing past $145 a barrel for the first time...