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(Reuters) - Groupon Inc , the world's largest online daily deals provider, is reshuffling senior management roles in an attempt to fix its struggling European business -- a shake-up that will also include the departure o...

It is a device that three quarters of the world's inhabitants have access to, according to the World Bank, but the words to describe it and etiquette of how to use it differ starkly across cultures.

DETROIT (Reuters) - U.S. auto sales will likely rise 8 percent or more in September as dealers offered generous cash incentives on pickup trucks that amounted to as much as $10,000 a vehicle in some areas of the United S...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Friday said it was seeking to open the long-term sustainment of the Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter program to competition from other companies as part of an overall drive to lowe...

Every company would love to find a citizen-pitchman like Subway's Jared Fogle, whose weight-loss story from eating Subway sandwiches played up that chain's healthy-living brand position. But what can you do if that perfe...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Codelco, the world's No. 1 copper producer, will seek to reduce 2013 physical copper premiums to Asian buyers by about $5, while its European rate will likely be held or trimmed by a smaller amount, ...

Starbucks will open its first outlet in India by the end of October in an upscale neighborhood of Mumbai and has appointed a chief executive to head its India joint venture, the company said Friday.

The FDA today approved the Subcutaneous Implantable Defibrillator (S-ICD) system from Cameron Health. The device is the first ICD that does not require a lead that connects directly to the heart and  therefore  ...

Affluent Americans have a greater sense of security and feel better prepared financially.

Apple's iPhone 5 is not yet officially on sale in China. But within five hours of it becoming available in Hong Kong, the Chinese “grey market” was heating-up with sales of the handsets that were supposedly s...

2012—well, late 2011—was supposed to be the start of a new era for New York racing. After a decade of uncertainty, the leadership and financial holes were closed, management stabilized, a positive revenue s...

When the economy slowed in the summer of 2010 and the Fed launched QE2, commodity prices took off like a SpaceX rocket. The price of crude oil reversed to the upside along with the stock market, surging up 64%, from $70 ...

New Jersey faces some tough issues. And not just being a ubiquitous punch line and those occasionally uncomfortably close-to-accurate Sopranos storylines.

Between defense department budget cuts, cancelled commercial airplane orders and the possibility that a big competitor is about to grow, aerospace company Boeing (BA) isn’t catching any breaks these days, and inve...

Crunchyroll wants to iTunify Anime. With a new app coming to the Xbox 360 and over 100,000 subscribers, the service is leading the Cable 2.0 charge.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Germany's Commerzbank said on Friday it was cooperating with U.S. prosecutors in a case involving a bank employee charged with conflict-of-interest violations and exposing an Internal Revenue Servi...

Sometimes you write a post that you believe in and people comment that it's "stupid" or I'm a "fanboy."  (I'm still waiting for someone to call me a Yahoo! fanboy.)  Other times, someone will make a point and I...

In a June 21 post by WLF's Anastasia Killian, ?Natural? Selection: Survival of the Litigious, she noted that consumer class action target Ben & Jerry's decided to settle with the "deceived" plaintiffs once a judge on...

An increasing number of people are being caught boarding airplanes carrying guns, hand grenades and other dangerous items, federal authorities say.

Governments around the country are approving restrictions and fees on paper and plastic shopping bags in an effort to encourage consumers to bring their own.

The independent banking assessment was well below the potential €100 billion, or $128.6 billion, in bailout money Spain negotiated with the euro zone in June.