Hewlett-Packard offered to buy 3Par for about $2.3 billion, ending an 18-day battle with Dell Inc. for the maker of storage systems...

Burger King Holdings Inc. agreed to be acquired by 3G Capital for $3.3 billion, giving the New York investment firm control over the second-largest U.S. hamburger chain.

The new Apple TV fits into Steve Jobs' entertainment vision...

The former Labour leader sounds a conservative note in his memoir...

Carlos Slim Helu takes the No. 1 spot on Forbes' annual list of the world's richest as a record 164 billionaires return to the ranking amid the global economic recovery.

Shares of the fast-food chain soar after news of the $24 per share buyout by 3G worth $4 billion.

These schools do the best job raising their students above expectations.

Some hospitals make colossal profits. Are they running a tight ship--or using monopoly power to overcharge patients? It's not a discussion hospitals want to have.

Their net worth is over $36 billion. With a fortune of $7 billion, conglomerateur Dhanin Chearavanont is the new No. 1.

Retail sales rose 3.3 percent, more than forecast. But the results are measured against a weak month a year ago.

Europe tends to focus on the dollar exchange rate, but the yen’s recent rise is helping Germany significantly.

For all the turmoil over Toyota's wave of recalls, the world's largest automaker may face a bigger problem: the surging yen.

Traders were slow to react to the modestly positive news Thursday. Instead they are waiting for Friday’s crucial monthly report on employment.

The Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, also told the financial crises panel that it was impossible for the government to save Lehman Brothers in 2008.

Crude-oil futures rise after the day's round of macroeconomic data is mildy positive and rig fire cast pall.

Shares of Orexigen jump on news that a Japanese pharmaceutical giant will commercialize Orexigen's new diet in North America, if and when it receives regulatory approval.

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke says that he always thought a failure of Lehman Brothers would severely damage the U.S. economy, and that he was willing to do anything to prevent the failure of the firm. Bu...

The number of people filing first-time claims for unemployment benefits remains at an elevated level, although Labor Department data show this figure down by 6,000 to a total of 472,000 in the week en...

It was a strong August for the once-sleepy category.

Shares of Mariner Energy tumbled Thursday after an explosion at one of the company's production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.

Stocks drifted between modest gains and losses Thursday, as investors took a step back from a major rally in the previous session and digested mixed economic reports.

The economic outlook doesn't have to be entirely rosy to for investors to shy away from the safety of Treasurys. Sometimes, all it takes is a little news that isn't completely terrible.

A jobless recovery? Hardly.

Burger King said Thursday that it has agreed to be acquired by investment firm 3G Capital in a deal valued at $4 billion.

Brazil's oil giant may be paying too much to pump the stuffFOUR years ago Brazil struck oil—up to 350km (220 miles) offshore and buried under deep water and thick layers of rock, sand and corros...

Old-media firms are firmly in control of internet videoLIKE stallholders in a busy market, technology companies hawked their online-video services this week. In Berlin, Sony announced it would begin s...

Will Burger King be gobbled up by private equity?SHARES in Burger King (BK) soared on September 1st on reports that the fast-food company was talking to several private-equity firms interested in buyi...

An enclave of unbridled capitalism thinks againIT HAS been mooted since 1932, but Hong Kong has never had a minimum wage. It soon will, however. In July a law was passed. And on August 30th, after end...

Counterfeit drugs used to be a problem for poor countries. Now they threaten the rich world, tooDRUG smugglers can expect harsh penalties nearly everywhere—if the drugs in question are heroin or...

Reuters - The S&P 500 and Nasdaq gained on Thursday, building on their best day in eight weeks in the previous session as data showed an improvement in pending home sales and a drop in initial jobless...

Reuters - Burger King Holdings Inc , the No. 2 U.S. fast-food chain, agreed to sell itself to investment firm 3G Capital for about $3.26 billion in a deal analysts said would give the restaurant breat...

Reuters - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said he was partly to blame for leaving the wrong impression that the central bank could have saved Lehman Brothers from failure in 2008.

Reuters - Hewlett-Packard Co won the bidding war to buy data storage company 3PAR Inc for $2.4 billion, after rival Dell Inc bowed out from a drawn-out bidding war on Thursday.

Reuters - Pending sales of previously owned U.S. homes rebounded unexpectedly in July and new claims for jobless benefits fell last week, hopeful signs for the sputtering economic recovery.

Telegraph.co.ukOffshore platform explodes in Gulf of MexicoMiamiHerald.comAn offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico exploded on Thursday but company and federal records show it appears to be producin...

ReutersBurger King goes private. More deals cooking?Christian Science MonitorBurger King signs are seen at a restaurant in Annandale, Va., last week. Burger King Holdings, the world's No. 2 fast-f...

Telegraph.co.ukDell walks away from 3Par bidding battleFinancial TimesHewlett-Packard appeared to have won the bidding battle for data storage technology company 3Par on Thursday, after Dell said it w...

ReutersBernanke EmpoweredBloombergThe new financial regulation law gives the Federal Reserve chairman the authority to force banks to raise capital and tighten lending -- just as he's trying to st...

Telegraph.co.ukSamsung fires first Android-powered salvo at iPad with Galaxy TabArs TechnicaApple became the biggest fish in the very small touchscreen tablet pond when it launched the iPad this past...

In addition to announcing the Samsung Galaxy Tab at IFA in Berlin, Samsung on Thursday released the first official Galaxy Tab commercial.

One of the most poorly kept secrets in recent memory, Samsung officially announced the Samsung Galaxy Tab on Thursday in Berlin at the 2010 IFA electronics show.

Shares of Burger King Holdings surged for the second day as the burger-and-fries chain agreed to be taken private by 3G Capital for $4 billion, with the assumption of the company's debt.

In Louisiana, it's a tale of two localities‹ the coastal communities saw Summer tourism dollars evaporate after the BP oil rig disaster.

Following right on the heels of the Wednesday Apple TV announcement, in which the new Apple TV service will allow 99 cent TV show rentals from Fox and ABC , Amazon.com has gone Apple one better.

It was a glass-half-full day for economic data on Thursday ... sort of.  The upbeat news was tempered by worries about what Friday's unemployment report will say about the state of the labor market.

Stocks edged higher after reports on housing, manufacturing and jobs indicated the economy continues to grow - slowly.

The plunge in interest rates has put the nation’s public and private pension funds badly underfunded, leaving pension fund managers with a giant hole to fill.

The number of buyers who signed contracts to purchase previously occupied homes increased in July but remained well below last year's levels, a sign that demand for housing remains weak.

Baby carrot farmers are launching a campaign that pitches the little, orange, crunchy snacks as daring, fun and naughty — just like junk food.

While investors favor mutual funds with four-or five-star ratings, there may be hidden gems in some of the lower-rated funds. “Just because a fund’s been underperforming doesn’t mean it’s not...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and Nasdaq gained on Thursday, building on their best day in eight weeks in the previous session as data showed an improvement in pending home sales and a drop in...

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Burger King Holdings Inc , the No. 2 U.S. fast-food chain, agreed to sell itself to investment firm 3G Capital for about $3.26 billion in a deal analysts said would gi...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said he was partly to blame for leaving the wrong impression that the central bank could have saved Lehman Brothers from failure in 2008.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co won the bidding war to buy data storage company 3PAR Inc for $2.4 billion, after rival Dell Inc bowed out from a drawn-out bidding war on Thursday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pending sales of previously owned U.S. homes rebounded unexpectedly in July and new claims for jobless benefits fell last week, hopeful signs for the sputtering economic recover...

Britain's largest supermarket chain has moved into filmmaking, confident its customers will pay for adaptations of their favorite novels. Is this a new revenue stream for the flagging DVD market -- or...

Study: Women are earning more money than their male peers -- but only if they're young, single and childless...

Buying a house is supposed to make us better citizens, better investors and better off. But that American Dream may well be a fantasy...

The broad stock market has gone nowhere in 2010, but the shares of apartment REITs are up more than 20%. What's fueling this mini-bull market? Oddly, the housing bust...

Long synonymous with quality, Toyota is reeling from months of negative publicity related to the quality and safety of its cars. This could be one long fight to win back consumers' hearts...

Dr. Christian Paletta, director of Saint Louis University Hospital’s division of plastic and reconstructive surgery, will leave SLU in December for a position at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in W...

Second Wind Inc. is expanding its production of wind measuring equipment with a move to a larger manufacturing facility next Tuesday in Newton, Mass.

Denmark-based CLC bio, a life sciences services company providing hardware, software and data analytics, is expanding in Cambridge. The company has opened a new location on 10 Rogers Street in Cambrid...

Design software maker Autodesk Inc. led a $6 million second venture funding round in Vela Systems Inc. (ADSK)...

Daniel Trout was named vice president and business loan officer of Mutual Bank, a community bank serving consumer and business customers through nine branch offices in southeastern Massachusetts.

U.S. regulators fell short in using their powers "forcefully or effectively" to stop risky practices by banks and were "slow to identify and address abuses" in subprime mortgage lending before the fin...

The U.S. government designated the Pakistani Taliban a terrorist group Wednesday and charged its leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, with involvement in a December suicide bombing that killed seven Americans a...

U.S. regulators acting on "flawed information" denied Lehman Brothers the bailout assistance that its Wall Street competitors received, dooming the investment bank to collapse, former company chief ex...

Government contractor Science Applications International Corp. says its second-quarter profit grew nearly 54 percent as it refocused its business on key growth areas, such as cybersecurity, energy and...

The city of Harrisburg has said that it will not make a $3.3 million municipal bond payment due in two weeks, a decision that could move the Pennsylvania capital closer to bankruptcy. Harrisburg...

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That's a chapter title from Jonathan Franzen's new book Freedom. If you think you are going to like this book, you almost certainly will; it delivers on its promise. The problem is, I never thought I...

Did Bill Gates waste a billion dollars because he failed to understand the formula for the standard deviation of the mean? Howard Wainer makes the case in the entertaining Picturing the Uncertain Worl...

Chris, a loyal MR reader, asks: Why does the corporate world use language so inefficiently? Why turn a simple thing like "talking to a client about their needs" into a five-step process (dis...

Cruise entertainment doesn't have the best of reputations, but I took my maiden voyage earlier this year and it was a real eye-opener. I was there to review shows on board the Celebrity Eclipse, and b...

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has acquired a large minority interest in Univar, a large chemical distribution business, from buyout firm CVC Capital Partners.

Dell on Thursday withdrew from the bidding for 3Par, which agreed to be acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $33 per share.

The deal marks the second time in eight years that the fast-food giant has taken itself private.

Hewlett-Packard has raised its bid for 3Par to $33 a share.

Richard Fuld's portrayal of Lehman Brothers as a viable enterprise as a viable enterprise destroyed by outside forces may be a way of supporting a defense that there was no intent to defraud investors...

Moreover, Mr. Pandit seems uncomfortable as the leader of one of the nation’s biggest banks. He shuns most interviews, and he is prone to overreact to criticism no matter the source, be it The W...

A show of hands– how many of you think your male colleagues wear make-up? You were going to say “none,” right? Wrong, RuPaul. Statistically speaking, probably one-half to a third o...

Bernanke Meets Buffett In Role Conceived To Protect Markets (Bloomberg) Under the Dodd-Frank law, Bernanke’s Fed gains powers never before housed in one regulator. The central bank remains the super...

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He “picked her up in a Maserati and she said well maybe I can get used to this.” Let’s make this happen. Subject: Meeting Request: Reality Television Potential Entertainment Executi...

Petrobras' U.S.-listed shares are upgraded to buy from hold after it struck a deal with the Brazilian government.

The dollar sold off as risky assets made a comeback.

Stocks rose tentatively after the Labor Department said initial claims edged lower last week.

The 30-year fixed rate mortgage hit a new low of 4.32% this week, and stands to fall to 4.24% in September.

Financial stocks were slightly up Thursday.