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Canada's Catalyst Paper Corp (CTL.TO: Quote) filed for Chapter 15 protection in a U.S. court on Tuesday as the specialty paper and newsprint producer grappled with rising costs of raw materials and lower demand.

Jefferies feels incrementally better about its base case for potential merchant litigation outcomes as it relates to "buy" rated Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) and MasterCard Inc. (NYSE: MA).

The publication also noted that AMD's Trinity predicts 25 percent faster CPU performance with double the performance for GPU. The 32 nanometer chipset is also said to arrive in dual and quad core versions.

Yahoo, Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has announced the resignation of Jerry Yang from its board of directors and all other positions he held at Yahoo. Additionally, Yang also resigned from the boards of Yahoo Japan and Alibaba Group.

The investigation and rescue operations are in full swing after an Italian cruise liner capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, Friday, leaving 11 passengers dead and hundreds injured.

Jefferies believes the press reports suggesting that Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) is talking to Samsung are likely true.

Cruise Ship Sinking: Captain, 'The Most Hated Man in Italy,' Faces the Ire [Transcript, PHOTOS]

Kumquat, Nypon and Pepper are just a few devices that are set to hit the markets in April.

Research In Motion is not on Samsung Electronics Co's immediate shopping list, but the ailing Blackberry maker may still be attractive to Asian smartphone makers.

Apple has filed a lawsuit this week against Samsung Electronics in Germany to ban the sale of Samsung smartphones in the country, according to a report.

Netflix's stock has suffered a much-publicized nosedive in recent months, and now a group of shareholders is hitting the subscription service with a class action suit.

Japanese chipmaker Elpida Memory will seek a capital tie-up with U.S. rival Micron Technology as it struggles with a deteriorating market and stiff competition from South Korean competitors, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Manhattan federal judge Jed Rakoff is certainly not shy about speaking for himself. In November, as you'll surely recall, Rakoff blocked a negotiated $285 million settlement between the Securities and Exchange Commission and Citigroup over mortgage-linked securities. To say Rakoff had harsh words for the parties would be the understatement of the year. He railed against the bank and regulators an...

From the Riviera of the Midwest to the Most Beautiful Place in America, the left side of the Michigan mitten has no shortage of family action.

Apple is reportedly weeks away from debuting the iPad 3, but the actual release date for the device is slated for a month later, in early March 2012.

Yahoo co-founder and one-time CEO Jerry Yang resigned from the company’s board as well as from the board of China’s Alibaba Group, where Apple has a 44 percent interest

A survey by IBM, the No. 2 global computer services company, found consumers use technology for purchases, particularly social networks.

Stocks sold off late in the session to end with modest gains on Tuesday as Citigroup's steep drop in profit gave investors a reason to unload bank shares.

Research in Motion, makers of the Blackberry smartphones, saw a sharp jump in their stock price on Tuesday as rumors of a potential buyout by Samsung surfaced

Shares of BlackBerry developer Research in Motion surged as much as 11 percent Tuesday after speculation Samsung Electronics might mount a takeover bid.

Two new smartphones with the largest screen sizes available are coming soon to AT&T, and the HTC Titan II and Samsung Galaxy Note will stand out for more than just their size. Both will join AT&T's growing corps of 4G LTE-enabled devices, Titan II runs the Microsoft system and the Note includes a stylus.

An Italian judge Tuesday placed Francesco Schettino, the captain of the sinking cruise ship Costa Concordia, under house arrest.

The most buzzed about items at the 2012 International CES were undoubtedly OLED televisions - namely Samsung's and LG's - but questions remain whether the items are more than just another hyped, yet useless gadget.

When it comes to hydraulic fracturing New York stands at a crossroads, by the end of this year the state's Department of Environmental Conservation could start granting drilling permits for horizontal natural gas drilling.

Dundee Real Estate Investment Trust (D_u.TO: Quote) will buy Whiterock REIT (WRK_u.TO: Quote) for about C$580 million ($572 million) in a cash-and-stock deal to strengthen its position in the office property space.

O. J. Simpson, the former football star who gained notoriety during a 1995 murder trial, is facing foreclosure on his Florida home.

British government officials are determined to expel Qatada from the country.

L.L. Bean celebrated its 100-year anniversary on Tuesday with a giant mobile replica of its original boot, dubbed the Bootmobile. In honor of the 100-year anniversary, here’s a look at some of the best L.L. Bean products of all time, plus Leon Leonwood Bean's original patent sketch of the Duck Boots.

Two individuals working on an exploration well off the coast of Nigeria are still unaccounted for following a fire that took place on one of the company's rigs.