IBT Staff Reporter

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Former MSNBC host Cenk Uygur will launch his new Current TV show December 5 at 7 p.m. ET, the network announced Thursday.

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.

America's Got Talent could be getting just a tad bit edgier.

Sony has put production of Singularity, Roland Emmerich's big-budget sci-fi film, on hold while the filmmakers revise the script, TheWrap has confirmed.

Long before the brokerage firm MF Global collapsed into bankruptcy and prompted a frantic search for missing customer money, the company had already established a checkered history.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pressed Europe on Thursday to act more forcefully to quell its debt crisis, setting the stage for an Asia-Pacific summit overshadowed by euro-zone upheaval.

Walt Disney Co unveiled strong results that trumped Wall Street's expectations as advertisers spent more at cable networks like ESPN and consumers kept going to theme parks despite a rough economy.

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.

Word about items from the Los Angeles home Michael Jackson died in going to the highest bidder next month broke two days after a jury found Dr. Conrad Murray guilty of involuntarily killing the King of Pop Monday. However, Julien's Auctions founder Darren Julien told IBTimes Thursday he and his colleagues came up with the Dec. 17 event as early as five months ago.

IntercontinentalExchange Inc on Thursday added its voice to an anguished chorus of commodity traders calling for MF Global's bankruptcy court to release billions of dollars in cash frozen in their accounts.

Lenders plan to meet Japan's scandal-hit Olympus Corp as early as next week to negotiate more security over their loans as the company moves to the brink of delisting from the stock market, the Nikkei newspaper said Friday.

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.

Despite recent bankruptcy filings by Alabama's Jefferson County and Pennsylvania's Harrisburg, heading to court for debt relief is expected to remain a last resort for financially stressed local governments.

Starbucks Corp plans to start a chain of juice bars starting next year, venturing into territory staked out by Jamba Inc , in its biggest-ever expansion beyond coffee.

The highly popular '90s arcade game The Simpsons may finally be getting an Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network port, but no official word has been said.

Though Rockstar games has kept fairly tight-lipped about Grand Theft Auto V since it debuted a trailer of the game, rumors and leaks about it have floated steadily onto the Internet.

Wilson Abraham Ramos, 24, a Major League Baseball catcher for the Washington Nationals, was kidnapped near his home in Santa Ines, Venezuela on Wednesday night.

Italy moved closer to a national unity government on Thursday, following Greece's lead in seeking a respected veteran technocrat to pilot painful economic reforms in an effort to avert a euro zone bond market meltdown.

A young entrepreneur, 19-year-old Josh Buckley, is bringing a similar game as Pokemon to the iPhone, called MinoMonsters. Players will be able to collect monsters, level them up in typical RPG style, and pit them against others in this iOS game.

Though there has been no official word as yet about the exact date for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, rumors of a November 21 release have been circulating, thanks to a product launch roadmap supposedly leaked from Verizon.

Confederate Flag license plates have been rejected by the state Department of Motor Vehicles in Texas.

PC shipments may be crimped by as much as a fifth in the first three months of 2012, hurt by the shortage of hard disk drives after the Thailand floods, said IDC.

Defending the Federal Reserve on the turf of his harshest critics, central bank chief Ben Bernanke on Thursday said the Fed was intently focused on lowering unemployment and warned that strains from Europe could trigger global economic shocks.

The United States said on Thursday it will study a new route for the Keystone XL Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline, delaying any final approval beyond the U.S. 2012 election and sparing U.S. President Barack Obama a politically risky decision during an election year.

The Walt Disney Company posted record earnings of $4.8 billion in 2011, up 21 percent from 3.96 billion in the year earlier period, mostly attributable to success in both the cable television and broadcasting division.

The trustee liquidating bankrupt broker MF Global on Thursday deflected intensifying pressure to disperse billions of dollars of customer cash frozen in commodity accounts, saying that he could not yet legally release individuals' funds.

The U.S. government racked up a smaller deficit in the opening month of fiscal 2012 than it did in October a year earlier, the Treasury Department said on Thursday.