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Chrysler led U.S. rivals Ford and General Motors in Sept. sales, but Toyota and Honda were overall leaders.

The young-adult clothing retailer Express, Inc. (NYSE: EXPR) slashed its profit outlook for the third time in just five months. Spooked investors sent the company's stock to a new low.

India’s Kingfisher Airlines Tuesday declared a partial lockout till Thursday following instances of labor unrest and strikes in the company while the Aviation Ministry warned the crisis-laden air carrier that it would not be allowed to fly if safety norms were flouted.

Swedish furniture giant apologizes for erasing women from Saudi version of its 2013 catalog. Here's a comparison of the two versions.

Apple's App Store experienced an outage Sunday with users being unable to make a purchase or download a previous purchase owing to a Terms & Conditions bug. However, they were able to make new purchases by 12:46 a.m. EDT as the issue got resolved.

India’s debt-ridden private air carrier Kingfisher Airlines cancelled several flights Monday, fearing a number of its striking employees might not report for work. The company’s shares plummeted 5 percent on the Bombay Stock Exchange following the reports.

Take a look at how postal services are doing in other countries while you count down the hours to the second default of the U.S. Postal Service.

Bank of America (BAC.N) said it will pay $2.43 billion to settle a class action lawsuit with investors who held its securities at the time the company announced plans to acquire Merrill Lynch.

U.S. coffee chain Starbucks Corp (Nasdaq:SBUX) will launch its first coffee shop in India by the end of October with Tata Global Beverages, John Culver, president, China and Asia Pacific, said Friday.

Spelling more trouble for the debt-laden Indian private air carrier Kingfisher, a consortium of its lenders Friday rejected the company’s Rs. 2 billion working loan request. The company’s shares plummeted over 5 percent in the Bombay Stock Exchange following the reports.

Five people including the gunman were killed and four others injured after a man opened fire at a Minneapolis business house Thursday evening, police said.

Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX) has been aggressively pursuing global expansion. Coffee-hungry Scandinavia is its next target.

News Corp. is reversing its decision to block Google from indexing content from its paywalled UK newspaper, The Times.

The European Union asked the World Trade Organization on Thursday for the right to impose annual trade sanctions worth up to $12 billion on the United States in retaliation for illegal subsidies to plane maker Boeing (NYSE: BA.N).

Walgreen Company (NYSE:WAG) will post weaker fourth-quarter profits as a payment dispute with Express Scripts cuts revenue.

Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) is now the 5th biggest U.S. company by market capitalization, leaping from 10th place, where it was on July 14.

The contract dispute between The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) and the Newspaper Guild is on the "threshold of crisis," The Guild said.

Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) cut its profit guidance for 2015 -- one week after FedEx (NYSE: FDX), also a global economic bellwether, reduced its outlook.

UK-based Diageo Plc confirmed Tuesday that it was in talks to buy a stake in India’s United Spirits. In a joint London Stock Exchange filing, both the companies confirmed that the talks were on but added that there was no certainty about the deal.

While corporations like Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) are still sitting on a boatload of cash, they are slowly downsizing their cash holdings.

Apple plans to downgrade its free iCloud storage offered as complementary space to MobileMe customers. In an email sent to iCloud subscribers, Apple has stated that 20GB storage offered to MobileMe customers and who continued to stay with Apple during iCloud transition will cease to enjoy their complementary services Sept.30.

Boeing no longer benefits from research conducted by the the U.S. DOD and NASA.

Third-party iPhone 5 vendors like Radio Shack are receiving fewer iPhone 5s than Apple's own 249 U.S. retail stores.

Maker of electronics components for Apple, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft shuts factory for a day after its workers riot at nearby housing facility.

Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology, a major supplier for technology firms including Apple, halted production at a plant in northern China after a fight broke out among workers, BBC has reported.

Village Voice Media Holdings, LLC, is selling its alternative weeklies to a newly formed company, Voice Media Group, based in Denver and headed up by Scott Tobias.

Wal-Mart says it's ready to open an Indian store as nation's leader defends allowing foreign direction investment in the nation's retail sector.

Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) will shut down its once-popular China music download service on Oct. 19. A move that would benefit local rival Baidu.com Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU).

Caterpillar's August deal statistics highlighted fears of a global slowdown, and the WTO lowered its 2012 global trade growth forecast to 2.5 percent.