Actor Alec Baldwin was involved in a dispute with an American Airlines flight attendant on Tuesday and asked to disembark an airplane because he was playing a smart-phone word game before departure.
Citigroup Inc. (C) Chief Executive Vikram Pandit said the bank will eliminate 4,500 jobs "over the next few quarters" in an effort to reduce costs, The Associated Press reported.
Occupy Wall Street protesters joined elected officials and community organizations on Tuesday in a march intended to highlight the human toll of the housing crash in East New York, culminating in placing a recently evicted family in a foreclosed upon home.
Amazon.com Inc is known as the world's largest online retailer, but the company is aggressively expanding in online advertising, putting it on course for a clash with Google Inc, the leader in the space.
Data is the lifeblood of all online marketing. Few people understand that better than Signpost CEO Stuart Wall, a man once knee-deep in the data-driven world of finance. Wall, who'd spent two years crunching numbers at Bain & Co., ditched his unglamorous gig as an analyst to start his own business. He now sits at the helm of the city's hottest advertising startup, Signpost.
The MTA has resumed operations on the Second Avenue subway project Monday evening. After taking two weeks off of the project, because residents complained about the noise, dust and odors that the construction produces.
The company will partner with New York-based ProPublica, the Chicago Reporter, Philadelphia-based WHYY Radio and Los Angeles-based KPCC Radio.
Last year saw a record number of discarded votes in New York elections--60,000 in total. The main culprit, apparently, was poorly designed ballots that let people vote for more than one candidate in a contest, according to a New York University study..
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Tuesday that the GOP filibuster of President Barack Obama's pick to the influential D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals would violate the bipartisan 2005 agreement limiting judicial filibusters among the Gang of 14 senators.
Insider trading by federal lawmakers is unlawful, but "distinct legal and factual issues" may arise and make the investigation or prosecutions difficult to proceed. However, any statutory changes on insider trading should be "carefully calibrated" to ensure they do not narrow current law, a top Securities and Exchange Commission official warned Tuesday.
Heisman Trophy runner-up Andrew Luck will be hoping to go one better after the Stanford quarterback was shortlisted again for college football's highest individual award.
Toll Brothers Inc., the largest U.S. luxury home builder, reported a net income of $15 million in the fiscal fourth quarter ending Oct. 31, or nine cents per diluted share, down from $50.5 million, or 30 cents per share, in 2010.
Angelina Jolie is being sued for allegedly stealing a Croatian Journalist's story in her new film, In the Land of Blood and Honey, according to Radar.com.
In an effort to provide relief to families left with no potable drinking water in Dimock Pennsylvania, activists and local leaders shipped roughly 5,700 gallons of fresh water supplies by bus Tuesday from New York City's city hall.
For $725,000, where's the mailbox now that the Great Neck LIRR station has been spiffed up? I think we know.
Cristiano Ronaldo's gorgeous fiance Irina Shayk poses naked for a new UK skincare ad campaign. The results are steamy.
BNY Mellon Wealth Management has hired a former Goldman Sachs banker to join its ultra high net worth family advisory team in Los Angeles, the firm said on Monday.
Police extended moves aimed at keeping anti-Wall street protesters from camping on Monday, arresting 11 people in Orlando and San Diego after a weekend clampdown in cities on both the East and West coasts netted scores of arrests.
U.S. home prices fell 1.3 percent in October compared to the previous month, the third consecutive month of declines, according to CoreLogic.
There is a significant chance that the Federal Reserve will embark on a third round of asset purchases to stimulate the U.S. economy, a major bond fund manager said on Tuesday.
The stock of online retail giant Amazon.com (AMZN) has dipped recently, but is the pull-back a buy opportunity?
UBS announced Tuesday it will be adding five recently-public Web 3.0 companies, including Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ:GRPN) to its benchmark index of young public Internet companies, officially called the UBS Next Generation Internet Index.
