IBT Staff Reporter

Amazon.com Inc, eBay Inc and other e-commerce companies had a strong Black Friday, but the industry's growth rate lagged last year's surge in online buying on the traditional first day of the holiday shopping season.

Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc., and other online commerce companies had a strong Black Friday, but the industry's growth rate lagged last year's surge in online buying on the traditional first day of the holiday shopping season.

President Barack Obama, eager to spur growth and hiring, took his daughters on an early Christmas shopping trip on Saturday in Washington as the U.S. retail sector got its vital holiday season underway.

AT&T Inc is considering an offer to divest a significantly larger portion of assets than it had initially expected, in order to salvage its $39 billion deal to buy T-Mobile USA, Bloomberg reported citing a person familiar with the plan.

A woman suspected of dousing fellow Walmart shoppers with pepper spray during a Black Friday eve bargain frenzy in suburban Los Angeles has turned herself in to authorities, police said on Saturday.

Greece may miss its target for privatization revenue next year because of the worsening economic climate in Europe, the head of the agency responsible for selling state assets said in an interview to be published on Sunday.

Black Friday shopping along Market Street turned out to be a nightmare as Occupy San Francisco demonstrators picketed in front of stores like Old Navy and Macy's, while also attempting to encamp in Union Square.

Manchester United are rumoured to be considering renewing their interest in Dutchman Wesley Sneijder, during the January transfer window, after Anderson was ruled out till February with a knee injury.

South Korea's communications regulator said Saturday that personal information of more than 13 million subscribers of a popular online game of the Nexon Korea Corp., a leading game developer in the country, had been leaked in a hacking attack.

South Korea's communications regulator said on Saturday that personal information of more than 13 million subscribers of a popular online game of Nexon Korea Corp, a leading game developer in the country, had been leaked in a hacking attack.

Driven by antitrust concerns, U.S. regulators are fighting hard to block AT&T's $39 billion deal to buy Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA. But, in an ironic twist, smaller U.S. wireless rivals may suffer more if the deal is blocked than if it is approved.

Driven by antitrust concerns, U.S. regulators are fighting hard to block AT&T Inc.'s $39 billion deal to buy Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA. But, in an ironic twist, smaller U.S. wireless rivals may suffer more if the deal is blocked than if it is OK'd.

Manchester United will host Newcastle United at Old Trafford on Sunday in an unlikely top-four encounter in the Premiership.

Philippine police and the FBI have arrested four people that Manila said were paid by a militant Saudi Arabian-based group to hack into U.S. telecom AT&T's system, but the company said it was neither targeted nor breached.

Philippine police and the U.S. FBI have arrested four people that Manila said were paid by a militant Saudi Arabia-based group to hack into U.S. telecom AT&T Inc.'s system, but the company said it was neither targeted nor breached.

A Very Gaga Thanksgiving proved plenty bounteous for ABC.

Jehane Noujaim -- director of Control Room, a 2004 documentary about Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera -- was arrested and later released after participating in a protest in Egypt, according to multiple reports on Twitter.

What do Bob Dylan and Miley Cyrus have in common -- besides their perpetually chipper demeanor, of course?

Two Oscar foreign-language contenders, Iran's A Separation and Turkey's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, were the big winners at Thursday's Asia Pacific Screen Awards, which took place in Queensland, Australia.

British actor Ben Whishaw will reprise the character of high-tech weapons specialist Q in the upcoming James Bond film Skyfall, a role previously played by actors Desmond Llewelyn and John Cleese, media outlets reported on Friday.

As a result of the poor box-office performance of Happy Feet Two, 600 of the 700 employees at the digital production studio behind the animated movie reportedly have received their walking papers.

By now, it's certainly no surprise that Tilda Swinton has turned in another riveting performance in a dark and difficult movie; from Orlando to I Am Love, that's what she does, with occasional detours to play the white witch in the Narnia films and win an Oscar as a corporate lawyer in Michael Clayton.

Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore have broken their Twitter silence in the spirit of the holiday season.

Tom Wicker, the New York Times reporter who covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy for the paper before moving on to become the Times' Washington bureau chief and a columnist for 25 years, died at his Rochester, Vermont, home on Friday, the Times reports.

Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters who have been camped in front of Los Angeles' City Hall for nearly two months will be evicted on Monday, city officials said on Friday.

A Japanese government panel will propose mandatory appointments of outside directors on boards of large firms in the hope of averting the kind of accounting scandal that has engulfed Olympus Corp.

A Japanese government panel will propose mandatory appointments of outside directors on boards of large firms in the hope of averting the kind of accounting scandal that has engulfed Olympus Corp.

Black Friday turned into a black mark against American shoppers as riotous crowds brawled over video games, waffle irons and towels, drawing international condemnation and even raising questions about the state of humanity.

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh was appointed trustee in the MF Global Holdings Ltd. bankruptcy case on Friday, days after he was hired to lead an independent probe into a sex-abuse scandal at Pennsylvania State University.