The Obama Administration is trying to balance keeping spending up in certain areas while cutting federal deficits and may be open to striking a deal with Republicans to raise the debt ceiling above its current $14.3 trillion levels.
Biofuel produced from seeds of Jatropha, a non-edible plant, can be sucessfully used for fueling aircrafts that can deliver strong environmental and socioeconomic benefits.
Stocks index futures fell on Tuesday in the wake of a disappointing revenue miss from Alcoa and Japan's upgrade of the severity of its nuclear crisis.
AMD is hiring Android driver development engineers, a move that reflects the chipmaker's big push in to the tablet and smartphone space with the help of Android.
U.S. blue-chip stocks eked out a slim gain Monday but other market measures fell slightly as investors traded cautiously ahead of the first quarter corporate earnings season.
Stocks index futures fell on Tuesday in the wake of a disappointing revenue miss from Alcoa and Japan's upgrade of the severity of its nuclear crisis.
Google goes green by investing $168 million in Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, California.
U.S. stocks ended mixed on Monday as energy shares declined on lower oil prices and investors cautious ahead of the unofficial start of first quarter earnings season.
India's top three technology firms are likely to post strong quarterly profit and indicate robust revenue growth for the year ending March 2012 as overseas clients boost technology spending in an improving global economy.
Google will join BrightSource Energy Inc. and NRG Solar LLC as an equity investor in the Ivanpah solar electric generating system by making a $168 million investment.
Jefferies & Co. believes Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is about to launch a new video-focused cloud-based service. The brokerage continues to believe that the assault on the living room likely means the introduction of another Apple appliance or device.
Bank of America Corp's internal auditors are reviewing why its chief financial officer and chief accounting officer were not consulted before the bank disclosed to investors that its dividend increase had been rejected by regulators, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first test to help diagnose people with signs and symptoms of dengue fever or dengue hemorrhagic fever. Manufactured by Seattle-based Inbios Inc., the DENV Detect IgM Capture ELISA test detects antibodies to dengue virus in blood samples from patients who have signs and symptoms of dengue.
US stocks are mixed on global worries ahead of the unofficial start of first quarter earnings season.
Mark Zuckerberg won a legal battle against former Harvard classmates who accuse him of stealing their idea for Facebook, but the feud made famous on the silver screen is not over yet.
Amazon.com Inc is now offering a version of its Kindle device for $25 less, but that electronic book reader will include advertising, the company said on Monday.
Brent and U.S. crude fell more than $1.50 a barrel on Tuesday in on concerns demand may wane on high fuel prices and after Goldman Sachs advised investors to lock-in trading profits before oil and other commodity markets reverse.
The US space agency NASA is expected to announce the final resting places of the agency's space shuttles Tuesday, on the 30th anniversary of the first-ever shuttle mission, according to various media reports.
Chevron Corp , the second-largest U.S. oil company, sees better earnings in the first quarter than in the previous quarter as rising energy demand boosted oil prices and most refining margins.
Toyota Motor Corp <7203.T> on Monday warned that the uncertain supply of parts from Japan could threaten its output of vehicles through July, the latest sign of trouble for the global auto industry stemming from the massive Japanese earthquake a month ago.
Long-term commodity bull Goldman Sachs warned clients on Monday to lock-in trading profits before oil and other markets reverse, with the bank's estimates suggesting speculators are boosting crude prices as much as $27 a barrel.
Alcoa Inc
, the largest U.S. aluminum producer, reported a first-quarter profit that slightly beat estimates, but its revenue missed Wall Street's target and its shares dropped 3 percent in after-hours trading on Monday. 
