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Mexico beat Cameroon 1-0 in a their first World Cup game in rain-soaked Natal. El Tri wasn't perfect. They looked shaky at the back and a late save from goalie Memo Ochoa saved the game. But Mexico created a bunch of cha...

A new paper from MIT's Sloan Business school finds that hyperactive patent litigators robbed the tech industry of billions in investment.

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Lending to weaker companies on easy terms is becoming more common as investors' appetite for higher-yielding debt grows stronger and the Fed keeps money flowing at ultralow rates.

Oil prices rise to a nine-month high, and global stock markets decline, amid concerns that developments in Iraq may hurt global supplies.

Republicans must not misunderstand the meaning of Eric Cantor's defeat. Eric Cantor is by most standards a fairly conservative American. The House majority leader's commitment to cutting government spending has survived ...

Priceline Group Inc. (NASDAQ:PCLN) will buy OpenTable Inc. (NASDAQ:OPEN) in a $2.6 billion cash deal announced Friday, giving the budget travel booking site a seat at the restaurant reservation table. Its bid of $103 per...

Brent crude and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) prices rose to nine-month highs early today as sectarian violence erupted in northern Iraq, while global equity markets turned red following reports that the US Military may ...

An affordable, realistic virtual reality game system has eluded developers for decades.

But tenant advocates worry about future in still hard-hit communitiesForeclosure cases were filed against almost 2,800 Chicago apartment buildings with 7,700 units last year, the smallest number since the housing crisis ...

My friend Ed Zimmerman wrote a terrific post for his WSJ blog, “Help Me Help You”, on soliciting him (and others like him) for investor introductions. I wanted to add to Ed’s post and observe that not all introduct...

(Reuters) - An engineer convicted of obstructing justice in connection with the 2010 BP oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico won a new trial on Thursday.

With the general economic outlook relatively stable, stock prices riding high and growth in the United States steady, executives are more willing to pursue acquisitions they have long considered.

Mr. Leverenz, who runs America's largest emerging markets mutual fund at Oppenheimer Fund, believes that nations like China, Brazil, Russia and India are experiencing economic and social change that won't be reversed.

Movie producer Ryan Kavanaugh wanted to upend all the rules of Tinseltown when he established Relativity Media 10 years ago. Now he wants to cure cancer. The bubbly 39-year-old billionaire...

Russia says Ukraine will get a nice cut in gas prices, providing it dishes out $2 billion in back payments first.

Global defense and security company Lockheed Martin announced plans Thursday to evacuate all employees from the Balad area in northern Iraq due to concerns for their safety with escalating violence in the region, officia...

Standard & Poor's sees better times ahead for UK as long as country stays in European Union

The Labor Department violated federal law when it lowered wages and worsened working conditions in the herding industry without notice or comment, an appeals court ruled Friday.

Four more upstate New York casino proposals have received approval from local officials.

Harmonix's new music game is fun, but the Kinect fails it.