US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has said he believes the financial crisis is coming to an end but society could take some time to fully emerge from the...

A pioneering winemaker from California’s Napa Valley has...

Renowned artist Francis Bacon's masterpiece, 'Triptych', has set a new record in sales by fetching a whopping 43 million pounds at an auction in New...

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project will install Windows XP on its low-cost laptops for students in developing countries, according to a joint announcement...

CHICAGO - Reuters Top U.S. Federal Reserve officials on Thursday cited progress in alleviating months of turmoil in financial markets, but said a full return to normalcy was still some time away. The...

With many years of experience in GPS and in satellite technology generally, Lockheed Martin is now charged with leading the development and deployment of the next-generation GPS III...

. It's a public preview of the new Firefox code, available in 45 languages, aimed at developers and early adopters to test out the new features. It has...

Here's our weekly roundup of the new products CNET reviewers liked best. 1. Aliph Jawbone 2 (black) Editors' rating: 8.7 The good: The Aliph Jawbone 2 is a fashionable Bluetooth headset with a...

Business news & features section. It was last updated at 00:04 on May 18 2008. Much heat and little light were generated last week by the announcement, made jointly by Microsoft and the One Laptop...

"It's all first class," says Team travel manager Scott Akasaki, whose biggest headaches during the season are changing plans on the fly after rain outs, extra-inning games or last minute scheduling...

AMD-ATI and Nvidia are preparing for the next graphics chip showdown. And there is already a good deal of information (and rumor) on the two chips due in...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Stocks will attempt to continue the market's two-month advance next week, with rising investor optimism about the U.S. economy helping overcome concerns over surging crude...

TORONTO, May 17 /CNW/ - CAW members working at General Motors locations across Ontario have ratified a new collective agreement by 84 per cent following a series of meetings held May 16 and May 17....

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla Motors, said here Saturday that he plans to take his electric sports car company public by the end of 2008. Before the IPO, however, Musk said he...

Why Charter Communications' ad-serving plan is making waves; the Senate moves to curb online child porn; and industrial Pittsburgh sets an environmental...

LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Rebuffed in his attempt to get Saudi Arabia to boost oil production, President George Bush on Saturday called for more aggressive domestic exploration for fossil...

, but this baseball cap is more sophisticated--in its technology, if not fashion sense. The cap is designed to analyze the brain's electroencephalogram (EEG) waves, determining whether you're too...

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- It's been a rough earnings season for European companies stymied by the euro's first-quarter surge to a record high against the downtrodden U.S....

has a good recap of the blow-by-blow.) I'm not sure how many people believe that explanation. Privacy is a convenient dodge, but this sounds more like land grab battle between the rival services....

WASHINGTON – When President Bush, once a Texas oilman, asked Saudi Arabia to pump more crude, he may have forgotten that the Saudis have a long memory. And that made it a good bet his mission...

TEHRAN – Iran's oil minister rejected on Saturday any idea of OPEC raising production, saying it would fail to ease record prices as the market was already “saturated” with oil. ...

All told, the bill would allocate more than $1 billion over the next eight years for a broad array of efforts aimed at tackling Internet crimes against children. It calls for hiring 250 new federal...

Orange, France Telecom's mobile provider, will whisk the iPhone into at least 10 more European, Middle Eastern, and African...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The United Auto Workers union said it has reached a tentative deal with American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings to end an 11-week strike at the General Motors Corp....

The standard four-cylinder Malibu is EPA rated at 22/30 miles per gallon. Add the hybrid system, and that rating is 24/32. At an added base price increase of about $2,000, we don't think that makes...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Almost 46 million stimulus payments totaling about $41 billion were sent to taxpayers in the three weeks ending May 16, the U.S. Treasury Department said...

Sharp and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this week detailed technology advances in making liquid fuel methanol a source for fuel cells. Sharp on Thursday claimed to have achieved the...

After a sluggish winter, employment in San Diego County rebounded last month, fueled by strong hiring in hotels, restaurants and government work, according to data released yesterday by the state...

Alvarado Hospital in San Diego has lost its court battle over a contract dispute with Blue Shield of California, demonstrating how challenging it can be for stand-alone hospitals to demand higher...

Doctors and hospital officials will square off with health insurers Monday in San Diego over a state plan to ban medical providers from billing emergency room patients for charges not covered by...

The world economy is “teetering on the brink” of a severe downturn and is expected to grow only 1.8 percent in 2008, the United Nations said in its midyear economic projections....

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- California winemaker Robert Mondavi, who helped popularize the concept of quality American wine, died Friday at the age of...

BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- The hoped-for rebound in home sales failed to blossom this spring, with the housing market caught in a downward spiral as falling prices continue to sap consumer sentiment and...

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson delivered a guardedly optimistic message to business leaders on Friday, saying that the economy was moving toward a rebound after months of malaise."We are still...

BOSTON - The One Laptop Per Child project is about to find out whether Microsoft Corp., a rival the nonprofit group once derided, is the solution to its problems in spreading inexpensive portable...

In Minneapolis, you know you've truly made it when you start breaking attendance records set by the Replacements. Slug and Ant recently did just that, laying testament to the cross-generational...

BERKELEY, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- Shareholders of Yahoo Inc. are now being confronted by Carl Icahn and the slate of directors he has to replace the current board. The thinking is that the company's...

In a move to make life easier for buyers of used cars, General Motors (GM) announced the launch of its Certified Pre-Owned Vehicle Locator Website - the first and only website of its kind in the...

Dark energy powers the Internet, at least according Jonathan Zittrain. Zittrain is the Jack N. and Lillian Berkman visiting professor for entrepreneurial legal studies at Harvard Law School, the...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- A cheaper car can cost you more in the long run than a more expensive model, so besides looking for a good deal on your next car, consider how much that model will cost you...

I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN: Call people suckers, and they'll take offense.A number of folks were either confused or offended when I said recently that we are all suckers -- that is, losers -- when we use...

Higher loan limits, set early this year by the federal government as part of an economic stimulus package, were supposed to make jumbo loans more affordable in expensive housing markets. Rates...

WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson will visit four Middle East nations this month to discuss foreign investment, the fight against terrorist financing and Iran.The Treasury Department...

LOS ANGELES – Developer Robert F. Maguire III has abandoned efforts to buy back the company that bears his name and is on the verge of being replaced as its chief executive and chairman, The...

LOS ANGELES – Janitors in Orange County have reached a tentative agreement with their employers on a four-year labor contract. SEIU Local 1877 spokeswoman Gina Bowers says the janitors'...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Allstate Corp.'s subsidiaries can resume selling new car insurance and other policies in Florida after the insurer turned over documents showing how it sets homeowners...

PHOENIX – If US Airways and United Airlines decide to combine, they'll bring along a number of reluctant employee groups that would rather remain separate. US Airways pilots on Friday joined...

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SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo Inc. is seeking to conceal large portions of a shareholder lawsuit alleging the Internet company's board improperly thwarted Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- General Electric Co. plans to sell or spin off the business that for a century has put appliances in American homes, a decision that could presage further asset sales, analysts...