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According to a report by Forbes, the now-public 191-page FBI file on Steve Jobs, Apple's co founder, will be available as a $12.95 paperback. However, if it's the soft copy you're looking for, you're in luck - a PDF version of the file can be downloaded for free.

Macy's will add about 4,000 full-time employees this year, the retail giant's Chief Executive Terry Lundgren told a group of fashion students on Friday.

The number of Americans filing for new unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell to a near four-year low last week, suggesting the labor market recovery was quickening.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.76 percent to 12,884.75 by early afternoon trading, while the Nasdaq rose 1.01 percent to 2,945.17. The S&P 500 rose 0.83 percent to 1,354.37.

Steve Jobs pushed an entire industry to think different. After passing away late last year, Jobs left an impression among many across the world as an innovator, rebel and entrepreneur. While Apple still maintains a cult-like status, many remained fixated on the lessons that can be learned from iconic founder Steve Jobs. For those who have finished the book, but still crave more from the fabled story of Jobs, Scott Hurff has put together The Ultimate Steve Jobs Collection.

General Electric Co., the blue-chip U.S. conglomerate widely seen as a bellwether of the state of the American economy, is going on a hiring spree. The company is set to employ 12,000 new workers over the next five years, including 5,000 veterans hired through a special priority-placement program, GE said Monday.

Shares of Apple, the world’s most valuable technology company, hit the $500 mark Monday valuing the company at $462 billion. It remains the world's most valuable company.

The austerity bill calls for, among other things, 15,000 cuts in public sector jobs; and a 20 percent reduction in the minimum wage.

Like many other sectors, the U.S. IT jobs market has been threatened by armies of smart, skilled and English-speaking professionals from emerging market countries like India, Pakistan and Russia.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released its file on Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who back in 1991 was up for a job on President George Bush's Export Council.

The Philadelphia Federal Reserve released a survey Friday that suggests the employment rate will drop further as 2012 progresses. Currently the unemployment rate in the country hovers near 8.5 percent.

Is Steve Jobs a visionary and a creative genius, who had created the Apple empire and had radically changed the way people use technology in their daily lives, or is he a deceptive person with questionable moral character, drug-taking problem, someone who had abandoned his illegitimate daughter, and had distorted reality? A 191-page FBI file about Jobs, which had been compiled in 1991, and released Thursday, gives you the answer.

A comprehensive background check on Steve Jobs was conducted by the FBI in 1991, intended to vet him for a position in the George H. W. Bush White House. What position did Jobs end up holding? What did his co-workers and neighbors think of him? What was the 1985 bomb threat that first caused Jobs and the FBI to cross paths? Here are all the details so far from the 1991 Steve Jobs FBI file.

The late Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs, has always been cherished for his incredible creative genius. However, newly released files on the tech wizard by the FBI have revealed that some of his close confidants and associates did not have a positive opinion of him.

Which party, Democratic or Republican, while in the White House, creates more jobs, on a per year basis? The answer may surprise you.

Apple Inc co-founder Steve Jobs, hailed as one of the greatest technology visionaries of his generation, dabbled in illicit drugs in his youth and alienated colleagues yet commanded universal respect, according to interviews conducted by the FBI in the 1990s.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has posted a 191-page file on its website concerning the background investigation of the founder of Apple, Steve Jobs. Jobs was being considered for a presidential appointment to the President's Export Council of George Bush Sr. in 1991.

Newly released Federal Bureau of Investigation files regarding Apple Chairman Steve Jobs noted the computer visionary’s use of drugs, abrasive personality but also his fitness for a prospective government appointment.

It’s no secret that mobile applications have made everyday life easier and more convenient. Commuters can check their train schedules on the go, teens can play word games against opponents across the country, and bloggers can post updates on social media sites in a second. But now studies show that mobile apps impact more than just the individual—they’ve helped bump America’s unemployment rate down.

PepsiCo Inc said it planned to pour $500 million to $600 million into its brands this year to increase sales in North America, where it lags behind archrival Coca-Cola Co .

Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) plans on eliminating 1,800 jobs across Europe, nixing positions in Belgium, France and Italy.