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Bangladeshi households using solar power for producing their own electricity has crossed the one million mark up from 5,000 households in 2002.

Ford Motor Company's passenger car joint venture in China, Changan Ford Mazda Automobile (CFMA), broke ground on Thursday on a $500 million engine factory in southwest China.

According to a home listing report by Coldwell Banker, the most affordable housing market in the United States is none other than picturesque Niagara Falls, N.Y.

Workers at four New York area Macy's stores are prepared to strike if a new contract agreement is not reached by midnight Wednesday.

Stocks continued to fall in early afternoon trading Wednesday, erasing most of Tuesday's gains.

JCPenny Co. Inc. said Ron Johnson would succeed Myron Ullman, III as Chief Executive Officer, effective Nov.1.

There's still no app for good old-fashioned common sense, that is something no one in business can afford to be without, says Michael Feuer, cofounder and former CEO of OfficeMax and author of the new book The Benevolent Dictator: Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition.

US auto major Ford Motors will invest €812 million, or $1.2 billion, for its plant in the Valencia region of eastern Spain.

The propeller plane is powered by four electric motors and is the first plane which can fly day and night without requiring fuel and with zero carbon emissions.

The aerospace and defense contractor Lockheed Martin is cutting 1,200 jobs in its space systems division.

The genius behind Apple's successful retail venture will head to JC Penny in an attempt to recreate the magic at the ailing department store.

Oakland-based Internet radio company Pandora Media Inc.'s $16 IPO share price has left the market wondering whether the shares are overvalued or not.

Ron Johnson, after his 11-year career as senior vice president at Apple Inc., will take over as CEO at J.C. Penney Co. November this year.

Journalist and labor organizer Jonathan Tasini filed a $105 million class action lawsuit against The Huffington Post, a website founded by Arianna Huffington for which Tasini wrote. Now four new plaintiffs have been added to the growing class action lawsuit that claims The Huffington Post's writers deserve to be paid.

General Motors will invest $20 million in machinery and equipment for its Fairfax Assembly plant to add future technologies and improvements of the Buick LaCrosse including eAssist of a light electrification technology that will boost highway fuel economy by 25 percent over the current model.

General Motors will invest $47 million in its Defiance Powertrain plant Ohio to purchase tooling and equipment to increase volume of components for the fuel-efficient Ecotec 1.4L engine.

General Motors Ventures LLC will invest $6 million in zero-emission commercial transit bus maker Proterra, the company said in a statement on Monday.

These transparent planes would actually make people want to go up in the sky to have a clear look at the world and beyond. Planemakers Airbus unveiled, in London, the transparent beauties we will be flying in 40 years from now, complete with see-through aircraft cabin, 'intelligent' cabin wall membranes and interactive games. Though the idea has been announced to the world back in September 2010, the aircraft makers have now come up with a blue-print

Fast-food chain Wendy's said Monday that it will sell a majority stake in Arby's to a private equity group, Roark Group. Wendy's will keep an 18.5 percent stake.

Is it only in Bill Gate's mind that the Facebook founder has changed his status from in a relationship to engaged? Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates has accidentally slipped a word that suggests the engagement of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg with his long-time girlfriend Priscilla Chan.

Odyssey Space Research announced that it will ship two iPhone 4s to the U.S. National Laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS).

German luxury carmaker BMW Group will invest 500 million pounds in its UK production network over the next 3 years.

Ford Motors has been ordered by Ohio Court to pay $2 billion to more than 3,000 US truck dealers for overcharging them.

It wasn't a record breaking box office weekend for famed director Steven Spielberg, who is playing the role of producer in this week's number one box office movie.

The failed launch of a perfume in memory of pop icon Michael Jackson caused a stench this week, as his father Joe Jackson distanced himself from a Frenchman behind the deal, and a lawsuit disputed their rights.

An unusual demonstration took place in the L.A. headquarters of Mattel, the American toy company that manufactures the famous Barbie doll, with members of the environmental group 'Green Peace' protesting against the wrapping of the Barbie doll that, allegedly, is linked to the destruction of tropical rain forests.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell below 12000 points on Friday, threatening to bring the stock market to a sixth consecutive week of losses. It would be the longest such slump since 2002.

A four-year-old patent dispute ended in Microsoft's defeat. The international tech giant now owes $290 million to a small Canadian firm.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has selected Google Apps as the agency-wide e-mail and collaboration platform for its 25,000 employees, contractors and associates working across the country and around the world.