The top U.S. official overseeing the response to BP Plc's Gulf of Mexico oil leak said on Tuesday he doesn't expect the company's commitment to cleaning up the spill to be diminished with its change in leadership.
BP Plc's newly named chief executive on Tuesday called the Gulf oil spill a wake-up call for the entire industry as the company tallied up its losses and disclosed two U.S. investigations.
A security expert said he has devised a simple and relatively inexpensive way to snoop on cellphone conversations, claiming that most wireless networks are incapable of guaranteeing calls won't be intercepted.
General Motors on Tuesday set a price of $41,000 for its electric Chevrolet Volt -- $8,000 more than its nearest competitor, the Nissan Leaf.
An obscure corner of the stock market is giving strong warning signs even as the broader equity and corporate bond markets rally.
The S&P snapped a three-day winning streak on Tuesday after mixed earnings reports and a fall in consumer confidence, but analysts said U.S. stocks were taking a breather and the rally could pick back up.
The S&P snapped a three-day winning streak on Tuesday after mixed earnings reports and a fall in consumer confidence, but analysts said U.S. stocks were taking a breather and the rally could pick back up.
Yahoo Japan, Japan's largest Internet portal operator, will adopt Google's search engine, refusing to follow Yahoo Inc in choosing Microsoft as a partner.
Defense contractors Lockheed Martin Corp and L-3 Communications Holdings Inc beat Wall Street profit estimates on better revenue and margins but offered differing full-year outlooks.
(Corrects JFE production in 9th paragraph: 25.8 mln metric tons, instead of 58.2 mln metric tons)
The S&P snapped a three-day winning streak on Tuesday after mixed earnings reports and a fall in consumer confidence, but analysts said U.S. stocks were taking a breather and the rally could pick back up.
Israeli scientists have developed a device that allows severely disabled people to communicate by using their nose.
More than 80 percent of the 532 French winemakers surveyed by online marketing company mysocialwinery.com said they did not blog or use Facebook, Twitter or other websites that allow consumers to comment, recommend, track or question wine producers.
The Dow industrials and the S&P 500 eked out slim gains, while the Nasdaq dipped on Tuesday as a sharp drop in July consumer confidence curbed the enthusiasm stirred by more robust earnings.
(Corrects company's name to Cummins in 2nd bullet point and paragraph 11 in midday stocks report)
BP Plc's newly named chief executive on Tuesday called the Gulf oil spill a wake-up call for the entire industry as the company tallied up its losses and disclosed two U.S. investigations.
(Corrects spelling of company's name to Cummins in 2nd bullet point and paragraph 10 in late morning report)
BP Plc's ousted chief executive, Tony Hayward, will not testify to a Senate committee examining whether the oil giant influenced the release of the Lockerbie bomber, Senator Robert Menendez said on Tuesday.
Toyota Motor Corp has pushed back plans to build its Prius in the United States by as much as six years, with a top executive saying U.S. production is likely to start only when the best-selling hybrid is remodeled.
Nissan Motor Co Ltd is recalling 51,100 Cube compacts in North America after U.S. safety regulators said a fuel leak could cause fire after a crash
Local government revenue has dwindled so severely that U.S. cities and counties will have to cut hundreds of thousands of jobs in the coming months, leaving communities without basic services and pressuring jobless rates.
Americans by a large majority believe President Barack Obama has not focused enough on job creation, as economic fears threaten Democrats ahead of November 2 elections
