Business News

An ambulance rushing former president Nelson Mandela to hospital for emergency treatment broke down on a motorway, forcing him and his doctors to wait for up to 40 minutes in the cold, South Africa's presidency has confi...

As a result of various economic trends, developing nations may no longer be capable of sustained high-powered growth.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration on Saturday sharply warned Hong Kong against slow-walking the extradition of Edward Snowden, reflecting concerns over a prolonged legal battle before the government contractor ...

Danish driver Allan Simonsen has died after a horror crash at the wheel of an Aston Martin at the Le Mans 24 Hour endurance race on Saturday, organisers reported. The 34-year-old, competing in the mythic race for the sev...

People do some crazy things to customize their cars. From a Swarovski crystal-encrusted Mercedes to a frighteningly realistic insect-shaped motorobike, we found 26 custom sets of wheels that are turning heads around the ...

After a day of crisis meetings, President Dilma Rousseff pledged to improve public services in the wake of spreading protests throughout Brazil.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Southwest Airlines was operating normally Saturday afternoon after a system-wide computer failure caused it to ground 250 flights for nearly three hours late Friday night.

Each week at Forbes we scan our database of corporate insiders to see who got richer from the action in the stock market. Last week was a tough one for equity investors, retail and corporate insiders alike. The past five...

Guest Post It's the corporate version of the founder's dilemma: Rarely can a startup define an emerging market and also go on to lead in its space. Case in point: mobile advertising.

The terrible smoky haze that spread over Singapore and surrounding Malaysia from fires in Sumatra, and the continuing conflagration in emerging market finances this week, were enough to cloud future prospects. But all th...

Who needs food when you can have funding news?

The U.S. government has charged PRISM-leaker Edward Snowden with espionage and is asking Hong Kong to arrest him as he is considered a flight risk.

St. Louis-based Muzio offers a sleek new way to share photos, videos, audio, and text in easy-to-share albums.

Instagram, it turns out, shares in ... not out.

A bug in Facebook let people download contact information for their friend that hadn't actually been submitted by their friends.

The US energy sector has hit an innovation lull. After a few years of accelerating adoption of renewable energy and smart grid technologies, not to...

They may be incapable of arriving at common means to revive their collective economy, but when it comes to the safety of their kids, European leaders on Friday were able to reach what's being lauded as a landmark politic...

The Fed suggests it will end its stimulus program and the world goes to pieces. Stocks fall, yields rise, gold plunges. What's a retiree to do with their nest egg? Chase stocks, dump bonds, hold steady? Here's what exper...

Neymar has now scored three goals in three games at the Confederations Cup with the latest coming on a beautiful bending free kick from just outside the box. The goal gave Brazil a 2-1 lead over Italy. Here's the video. ...

Gawker Media and founder Nick Denton were slapped with a lawsuit this week from three former workers who allege that the company classified them as...

When it comes to making sure cosmetics companies aren't poisoning us, Europe is apparently doing a much better job than the U.S. While there are just 10 cosmetics ingredients banned in the U.S., there are 1,372 in Europe...

The United States government hacked into Chinese mobile phone companies to collect text messages and spied on the Tsinghua University, troubled National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden told South China Morning ...