In response to leaks about secret NSA surveillance programs like PRISM, Mozilla launched a campaign called StopWatching.US that calls for greater transparency about the programs.
Rupert Murdoch will chair both 21st Century Fox and News Corp. when the media giant splits in two later this month.
Japan experienced an explosion of investment in solar energy after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown.
The European Union reportedly will join Japan in a complaint against Chinese steel duties filed with the World Trade Organization.
A Dunkin' Donuts customer in Florida freaked out and demanded free food because she didn't receive a receipt with a previous order.
Did you know Pakistan has as much recoverable shale oil as Canada? The number of known shale deposits is growing.
Energy and engineering giant Siemens intends to save 6 billion euros by 2014 and expand operations in South Korea.
The company was founded in 2004 by entrepreneur and philanthropist Miles Rubin. Its electric vehicles were manufactured in China.
Bank customers who routinely overdraw on their accounts pay an average of $225 a year, says the CFPB.
Apple unveiled the developer preview of OS X Mavericks at WWDC 2013 in San Francisco on Monday. Here are the top 5 enhancements.
Ecuador's leftist government demanded a 70 percent windfall profits tax for access to the world's largest untapped gold resource.
Rising demand for wheat and corn have inflated the price of U.S. farmland used to grow those two grains.
U.S. auto manufacturing has had three good years of jobs creation; that party is winding down in 2014.
A US federal judge dismissed a $3 billion lawsuit by Spyker accusing General Motors for Saab's bankruptcy.
The Indian government's stringent FDI regulations could further delay the entry of foreign multi-brand retailers into the country, a report says.
Five people are feared dead and eight are believed to be trapped under the debris of the residential building in Mumbai, India, that collapsed on Monday night.
Japan’s SoftBank Corp., in a race with Dish Network to acquire Sprint Nextel, enhanced its offer price to $21.6 billion.
By 2050, more than 800,000 New York City residents could be in a flood zone that would encompass one quarter of the city's land.
A new poll names Monsanto as the world's "most evil corporation" of 2013, beating other contenders like the Federal Reserve and McDonald's by a wide margin.
A Southwest Airlines flight made an emergency landing at Phoneix Sky Harbor International Airport on Monday, citing an unnamed threat.
Lululemon CEO Christine Day will step down, the retailer announced Monday, sending stocks tumbling.
The European Union looks likely to approve a partnership between Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic.
U.S. state laws, many passed amid 1970s panic over Japanese investment, exposes Shuanghui to legal trouble in Smithfield Foods acquisition.
Meet the Krispy Kreme Sloppy Joe. The deep-fried, beef-based sandwich was sold at Chicken Charlie’s at the San Diego County Fair on Saturday.
Russia's OAO Gazprom did not make a bid for the troubled state-owned utility.
A deer in the Florida Keys is breathing more easily after a deputy removed a Doritos bag from its head.
McDonald's posted higher global sales for the first time in months, perhaps due to new menu offerings and cheap deals.
Wind energy created a record amount of power last year.
A Moscow brokerage says it’s setting up a dark pool trading system for investors in Russian equity to take business from the Moscow Exchange.
The European Union is set to regulate offshore oil and gas anew, responding to the massive 2010 BP oil spill.