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The Justice Department has reached a $1 billion agreement with Toyota to resolve concerns over how the company responded to consumer complaints about rapid acceleration in some models five years ago, federal officials co...

In order to celebrate the impending end to this nightmare of a winter, why not grab your passport and head to sunnier shores?  TripAdvisor just came out with their Travelers' Choice Awards for the best beaches around ...

After success with the Hotel Madera opened in 2012, the Fong family's Hip Shing Hong Group is gearing up to open the Madera Hollywood in October this year. Here's a sneak peak at the inside.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- If the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline ever gains approval, Ronald Weber will watch from his farmhouse as workers lay the line beneath a half-mile of his cropland in northeast Nebraska. The 69-yea...

The chair of the Federal Reserve says the committee will no longer tie its decision on short-term interest rates to the unemployment rate.

In his most recent open letter to eBay shareholders, activist investor Carl Icahn outlined the plan for splitting PayPal and eBay that he's been hinting at for weeks.  He thinks that eBay should go through an initial pu...

Activist investor Carl Icahn has hatched a new plot in his ongoing quest to get eBay to spinoff its online payment service PayPal. In a letter to eBay shareholders released Wednesday, Icahn advocates for a partial IPO of...

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The billionaire investor lays out his scenario for a partial separation between the companies

Banking powerhouse JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) has agreed to sell its commodities business to giant Swiss commodities house Mercuria Energy Group Ltd., reports the Wall Street Journal.

Unseasonably cold weather appears to have chilled new-home construction in February, but underlying figures suggest building could be poised for a spring rebound.

Five years ago, Doodle Jump appeared in the iPhone's App Store. Players took control of a simplistic little alien creature that would jump from platform to platform destroying obstacles in its path. Created by brothers I...

Google Ideas takes a data-driven approach to expose and address shadowy fields like human trafficking and drug rings.     

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- The streets were mostly deserted in Nepal's capital of Kathmandu on Wednesday for a general strike to protest a hike in fuel prices.     

For the first time in a few years, the voices of those predicting a sharp fall in Chinese home prices are growing louder than those defending the sector as robust, reports Caixin Online.

Japan reported its 20th straight monthly trade deficit in February as soaring energy imports continued to offset the value of exported goods.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- In another sign of growing economic ties, China on Wednesday allowed its currency to be directly traded with New Zealand's.     

Inside Philanthropy has come up with a new list of the most generous donors in tech, basing the ranking on the size of their donations relative to their overall wealth.  The names who made the list may seem surprising,...

Countless theories have surfaced about the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 nearly two weeks ago.

An EA games server has been hacked and is being used to host a phishing site that steals Apple IDs, according to a report from security firm Netcraft.     

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Thursday's session are Lennar, Nike and ConAgra Foods.

These are some of the many tricks that Irrational Games used to make Elizabeth seem more real to players.