Private equity firms including KKR and TPG Capital are looking to potentially buy minority stakes of up to 20 percent in Yahoo Inc with an eye to eventually taking over the whole company, people with knowledge of the situation said.
Facebook is in talks with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to reach a settlement over changes to its privacy policies enacted two years ago, according to media reports.
The Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Chicago's O'Hare International Airport (ORD) and the Orlando International (MCO) will be the nation's busiest airports during the Thanksgiving season.
The number of people who filed for unemployment benefits dropped to 390,000 in the week ending November 5, down 10,000 from the week before, which the lowest level since April.
MF Global's liquidators are struggling to sell the Asian business as one concern because of problems unwinding trading positions, so they may now sell the various country units separately.
Following a joint investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and law enforcement agencies in Estonia and the Netherlands, an international gang who stole $14 million after hacking into at least 4 million computers in an online advertising scam has been arrested
Over one month has passed since parents Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin reported their daughter, baby Lisa Irwin, missing from her crib in the middle of the night on Oct. 4. The missing 11-month-old will celebrate her first birthday Friday, but she is still nowhere to be found. Bradley and Irwin allowed missing baby Lisa's half-brothers to be interviewed Thursday afternoon for the first time since an initial conversation occurred with police the day after Lisa went missing f...
Anti-Wall Street protesters hoping to commandeer a worldwide television audience to air their grievances said on Thursday they would peacefully occupy this year's Rose Parade in Pasadena.
As if things couldn't get any worse for Joe Paterno, senators Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.)have rescinded their nomination of Paterno for the Presidential Medal of Freedom less than 24 hours after Paterno was fired as head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions, according to the New York Daily News.
Not only has Kris Humphries' father announced that his family's standing by him while he recovers in his Minnesota hometown after his divorce from Kim Kardashian, but William Humphries claimed in an interview that appeared in Life & Style Wednesday that the basketball star was among the last to know about her splitting up with him.
The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, the most gorgeous fashion show in the world, drew international attention as the hottest supermodels in lingerie sashayed down the runway at NYC's Lexington Avenue Armory on Wednesday night, Nov. 9.
The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, the most gorgeous fashion show in the world, drew international attention as the hottest supermodels in lingerie sashayed down the runway at NYC's Lexington Avenue Armory on Wednesday night, Nov. 9.
After 13 years together, Maggy Porter and Arlene Bronfman began to talk last June about marriage when New York State passed its Marriage Equality Act.
DiCaprio turns 37 on Friday, Nov. 11.
This gallery guides visitors from the past to the present with a series of old photographs and a beautiful set of exclusive photographs taken in November 2011. After two centuries of barring public from accessing the facility, it opened to the public Nov. 10 with the launch of the BLDG 92 Brooklyn Navy Yard Center.
A federal jury in Manhattan acquitted state Assemblyman William Boyland of charges accusing him of taking a no-show consulting job at a hospital company.
For 53 cringe-inducing seconds on live television on Wednesday night, Rick Perry's brain froze. Those 53 seconds may have destroyed his presidential campaign. Here's why.
The shock jock is reportedly in talks to replace Piers Morgan
Heart doctors across the U.S. are closing up independent practices and migrating to large medical centers, forcing patients to travel farther and pay more for their care, because of reduction in Medicare slashed reimbursements, experts say.
The paradox of Occupy Wall Street's effect on local business is seen in the span of half a New York City block -- from 40 Wall St. to 60 Wall St.
After an audit conducted by the New York State Comptroller on the MTA, authorities discovered that overtime abuses padding pensions has cost the city and taxpayers.
The balanced budget amendment push is beginning again.