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Fundamental developments and Chevron's stock rise signaling oil's downtrend nearing end

A recent patent application filed by Apple shows the company is continuing to research ways to make a virtual keyboard for Macs. Apple has been interested in virtual keyboards for a while now, filing patents for virtual ...

A black man was reportedly discovered hanging from a tree in Claiborne, Miss. on Thursday, sparking a local and federal investigation into the death.

All the sectoral indices were trading higher, with the BSE capital goods index being the top gainer, up 1.3%

Last year, China's Alibaba Group unleashed a monster of an IPO, the world's biggest to date. But this year, Japan has a monster of its own that by all accounts will blow past the Alibaba listing to become the most massiv...

Tweet The hype around the UK's tech startup scene has been hard to ignore over the last 18 months. Not only have we discovered unicorns (or at least popularised the moniker for $1bn startups) like Zoopla and Candy Crush ...

GoDaddy could raise up to $418 million in its initial public offering, according to a regulatory filing on Thursday.

Acquired by Facebook for a whopping price tag of $22 billion, WhatsApp is one of the key sources of growth for the social networking giant. WhatsApp?s user base has grown exponentially over the last few years, and recent...

Target Corp. plans to raise pay for workers to at least $9 an hour, following similar wage increases by retail rivals Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and T.J. Maxx parent company TJX Cos., according to a report.

WASHINGTON -- Kicking off what will likely be months of contentious budget battles, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday released a 2016 funding blueprint that calls for freezing the maximum Pell G...

Ronald Read, who died in June at 92, spent years pumping gas. His friends were shocked when they learned his estate was valued at almost $8 million.

U.S. stocks closed mixed Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping more than 100 points, after Wall Street weighed the Federal Reserve's cautious approach to interest rate hikes. Meanwhile, a stronger U.S....

Bank of New York Mellon admitted on Thursday it misrepresented the pricing and execution of foreign exchange trades it made over a course of multiple years.

Paul Ceglia, a man who was arrested in 2012 for fraud charges relating to claims he owned 50% of Facebook, went missing from his Wellsville, New York home last week. According to reports by Bloomberg, federal marshals fo...

SeaWorld named a new CEO on Thursday, in its latest move to reverse continued attendance declines following the release of negative documentary Blackfish.

The Wall Street Journal got the report showing how FTC investigators wanted to sue Google back in 2012 for anticompetitive practices by accident, according to The Wall Street Journal. The FTC unintentionally sent an unre...

Life is far from sweet for some top sugar-producing nations, as a global glut combined with a collapse in the Brazilian real has crashed the international price of the sweetener to a six-year low.

The "over versus under" toilet paper argument has been waged in bathrooms around everywhere since it was first invented. Plenty of space online in the form of polls and listicles has been dedicated to the proper way to o...

Confidence in the outlook for India in the near-term has not changed, providing stability to markets, says the Barclays' emerging markets economist

Brian Cooley test-drives Jaguar's best-selling model, the Jaguar XF, and checks the tech.

WASHINGTON

It's certainly "March Madness" on the courts of the NCAA tournament -- between the Georgia State and University of Alabama at Birmingham victories alone, two 3-seeds were knocked out within the first four hours of its st...