
Futures rise as Americans ignore taxes and spend
U.S. stock futures rebounded Monday after last week's lackluster economic growth numbers, with new government data showing an uptick in consumer ...
Honda recalls nearly 46,000 Fit Sports
Honda is recalling nearly 46,000 Fit Sport small cars in the U.S. and Canada to fix a problem with the electronic stability control system. The recall ...
China's Baidu reports slower profit growth
Baidu Inc., which operates China's most popular search engine, reported slower profit growth in its latest quarter Friday as costs rose sharply and ...
AT&T to sell home automation, security packages
AT&T Inc. is launching its home security and automation service in 15 cities Friday, with an eye toward getting customers hooked on security cameras, ...

Samsung profit at record high on smartphone boost
Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday its first quarter profit jumped to a record high as smartphone sales remained strong despite the April launch of ...
Yahoo chairman joins recent boardroom exodus
Yahoo could use a revolving door in its boardroom. In the latest exit, Chairman Alfred Amoroso will become the eighth Yahoo Inc. director to depart ...

Fathers, firefighters: Lives lost in West, Texas
On April 17, an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, leveled part of the small town located some 20 miles north of Waco. Most of the ...
Coinstar's 1Q earnings drop as Redbox growth slows
Coinstar's first-quarter earnings plunged 58 percent amid signs that its Redbox kiosks for DVD rentals are losing their appeal as more people switch ...

UPS 1Q profit rises 7 percent
Consumers who kept spending after the holidays ended helped boost profit at UPS. United Parcel Service Co. said Thursday that first-quarter profit ...
Washington AG slaps T-Mobile USA for new plans
Washington state's chief prosecutor says there's a catch to T-Mobile's new cellphone plans, which replace the traditional two-year service contract ...
New York Times posts sharp 1Q profit decline
The New York Times Co. reported a sharp decline in its first-quarter earnings on Thursday mainly because businesses it sold last year were not ...
Marlboro maker Altria to jump into e-cigarettes
The Marlboro Man may soon be hitching his wagon to a new kind of cigarette. Altria Group Inc., owner of the nation's biggest cigarette maker, Philip ...
Volvo posts Q1 loss on steep sales drop
Swedish truckmaker AB Volvo sank into a first quarter loss as sales slid to a five-year low, the company said Thursday. First quarter sales for the ...

Novartis posts profit gain thanks to new drugs
Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG reported a 6.7 percent increase in profit for the first quarter Wednesday, boosted by new products and ...

P&G 4th-quarter outlook expectations, shares fall
Procter & Gamble's turnaround is still a work in progress. The world's largest consumer product maker said Wednesday that its third-quarter net income ...

Justice says Armstrong was 'unjustly enriched'
The federal government is going after Lance Armstrong's money. As much as it can get. The Justice Department unveiled its formal complaint against ...

Apple to dole out $100B to shareholders
Apple is opening the doors to its bank vault, saying it will distribute $100 billion in cash to its shareholders by the end of 2015. At the same time, ...

US seeks voluntary limits on car touch screens
The government is asking automakers to put stronger limits on drivers' interaction with in-car touch screens in an effort to curb distracted driving.

FAA followed Boeing's lead on 787 battery testing
Federal regulators let Boeing help write the safety conditions for the problematic battery system in its beleaguered 787 "Dreamliner," prescribe how ...

Netflix's 1Q subscriber gains catapult stock
Netflix's move to compete against traditional cable-TV channels with original programming is pulling in more subscribers to its Internet video service ...

Number-saving comes to Nigeria mobile phone market
To know what it is like to make a mobile phone call in Nigeria, ask anyone to turn out their pockets or upend their purses. One, two, three and ...
Google fined by German data protection agency
A German data protection agency fined Google Inc. 145,000 euros ($189,000) for illegally recording information from unsecured wireless networks — an ...

Lufthansa cancels about 1,700 flights amid strike
Ground staff at Lufthansa, Germany's biggest airline, walked off the job Monday on a one-day strike that prompted the company to cancel most of the ...

Automakers target Chinese buyers at Shanghai show
Global and Chinese automakers showcased family-friendly sedans and SUVs targeting coveted urban buyers at China's biggest auto show Saturday as ...

Boston travel: Trains, buses halted, planes flying
Mass transportation to and from the Boston area was virtually shut down Friday while police engaged in massive manhunt before capturing a suspect in ...