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Jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney has announced it is laying off 400 workers, including 200 in Connecticut.

The Justice Department and attorneys general from six states and Washington, D.C. have sued to prevent the proposed $11 billion merger between US Airways and Americans Airlines' parent company. Filing the suit in federal...

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Which Silicon Valley company has the best intern perks? This question was originally answered on Quora by Bogdan Cristian Tătăroiu.

Every day, around four million people fly on airplanes. This breaks down to roughly 1.7 billion people riding 25 million flights annually. Where the busiest flight routes are might surprise you, however. The outstanding ...

The New Zealand developers of a personalised jetpack said Tuesday that aviation regulators have issued the device with a flying permit, allowing for manned test flights. Martin Aircraft chief executive Peter Coker said t...

Mexico moved to end the country's 75-year-old monopoly on oil and gas production, potentially opening up some of the world's biggest remaining untapped oil reserves to private companies.

Hawaii's major utilities say an increasing number of their customers have been victims of telephone scams.

Several Boston mayoral candidates have come out strongly against the new 6.25 percent tax on computer and software services, which was passed in July as part of a transportation funding bill.

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An attorney who was fired by the court-supervised administrator of BP's settlement with Gulf Coast businesses and residents is demanding to be reinstated with back pay.

A press release dropped in my inbox this morning proclaiming that we are now 100 days out from the release of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, which in turn led to the announcement of the film's World Premiere in London ...

The FIR accuses NSEL of cheating, fraud, forgery with the victims being 17,000 small farmers/investors

The Anaheim Internet lender allegedly violated state usury laws.NEW YORK -- New York's attorney general has accused an Anaheim lender of illegally charging triple-digit interest rates on personal loans, then hounding bor...

Nipro Diagnostics, which makes diabetes-monitoring devices in Fort Lauderdale, is buying a New Hampshire company that produces nutritional and dietary supplements.

The Berlin-based super incubator announced that it has acquired Janamesa; an online food delivery service that rivals its portfolio company HelloFood.

U.S. companies are stockpiling really huge amounts of cash in offshore accounts. But, it turns out, the two most vocal proponents concerning the tax rules that incentivize companies to avoid moving cash into the U.S., Ci...

A large observational study published in JAMA suggests that patients with left bundle-branch block (LBBB) and longer QRS duration derive the most benefit from a cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D). Th...

Zynga is shaking up its management structure in the first big move under Mattrick.

Five best resorts that feature fresh, locally harvested cuisine from their own gardens.

David Flynn's next move? A new startup, Primary Data, which will be focused on solving tricky storage problems for software companies.

CloudPhysics made a triple threat of announcements today. The big data company has raised $10 million in funding led by Kleiner and released two new analytics tools to optimize virtualized data centers.