IBT Staff Reporter

Stocks closed a volatile, lightly traded session slightly higher on Monday, with sentiment continuing to shift with the latest headline from Europe.

Top U.S. electronics chain Best Buy Co is buying its British partner out of a fast-growing U.S. mobile phone joint venture for $1.3 billion and scrapping plans for a chain of European megastores.

Italian government bond yields soared to near 15-year highs, putting the Eurozone's third largest economy front and center of the region's debt crisis, despite scrambling efforts by policymakers to stem the growing contagion.

The much-awaited revolutionary voice-control software Siri has entertained its users with all the hilarious and odd answers hidden in its programming.

Reports say Apple is testing the Siri, Voice Control App on devices other than the iPhone 4S.

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, visited Harvard University today for the first time since he dropped out to move Facebook to California.

London Olympic organizers have just made the torch relay route public- and the trip will use some unusual modes of travel, including a balloon and zip line ride.

It's the same every year: that internal debate as to whether or not to get that flu shot your doctor is touting. In the United States, on average a full fifth of the population contracts influenza each year, resulting in approximately 226,000 hospitalizations and a number of deaths ranging from 3000 to 49,000.

European Central Bank policymaker Juergen Stark sees the euro zone crisis over in the next year or so as politicians have started to realize the need for painful action.

With over 100 million profiles worldwide, LinkedIn is often viewed as the king of online professional networking. But at least two companies are trying to gain an edge in online networking by tapping the Internet's largest social network: Facebook.

Stocks closed a volatile, lightly traded session slightly higher on Monday, with sentiment continuing to shift with the latest headline from Europe.

Barnes & Noble Inc introduced a new Nook to compete against Amazon.com Inc's Kindle Fire, entering the lower-end tablet war with a device that has more memory and speed but also costs $50 more.

Teen sensation Justin Bieber on Friday has spoken out publicly for the first time, denying allegations that he has fathered a lovechild with a fan. Bieber said he has never met the woman.

Google Inc's new social networking service has opened its doors to businesses to create special web pages, a move that could entice visitors to spend more time on the website and help Google match the offerings of rival Facebook.

The Siris Capital-led private equity takeover of network technology provider Tekelec could attract other suitors, as the $780 million deal potentially undervalues the company's new router product line.

The indie block harvesting game is still in its beta phase but has already sold four million copies.

The London Games Conference names Steve Jobs the most influential person in gaming, and Apple’s iPhone the biggest product to shape the industry.

To win the Nobel Prize takes scientists years longer than a century ago.

Ron Paul is the darling of libertarians and non-mainstream Republicans. Could he find success running as a third-party candidate?

Sprint Nextel must give AT&T hundreds of thousands of additional documents that the giant telecommunications company wants for a legal fight with the Department of Justice over whether it can buy smaller competitor T-Mobile USA, a special master in the case has ruled.

Apple is allegedly testing out Siri on older devices like the iPhone 4, according to rumors circulating last weekend.

A federal arbitrator imposed a labor contract on Air Canada's 6,800 flight attendants on Monday that has the same provisions as a tentative deal the attendants voted down in October, the union representing the workers, said on Monday

Jefferies Group Inc the mid-sized investment bank trying to distance itself from bankrupt MF Global Holdings Ltd , said it reduced by half the gross positions in sovereign securities of certain European countries it had on Friday.

Stocks were little changed in choppy trading after being lower on Monday as Europe's debt problems dominated investors' concerns, with the focus heavily on Italy's political turmoil.

Los Angeles police may investigate an alleged sexual tryst between pop singer Justin Bieber and a 20-year-old woman Mariah Yeater because it violates the statutory rape law of California.

Stocks were little changed in choppy trading after being lower on Monday as Europe's debt problems dominated investors' concerns, with the focus heavily on Italy's political turmoil.

Two weeks after its series premiere, ABC's fairytale drama Once Upon a Time continued to perform strongly Sunday night, while NBC scored an overall ratings win due, as usual, to Sunday Night Football, according to preliminary numbers.

One of the four women who has accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment held a press conference in New York on Monday to tell her side of the story, and said Cain's alleged actions involved more than hand gestures or words.

Anonymous has called off its feud with Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas following the return of one of its members, who was kidnapped by the Zetas during an Operation Paperstorm protest in Veracruz. The hacktivist group had vowed to launch a retaliatory attack of exposure of taxi drivers, journalists, and members of law enforcement working with the cartel today, November 5, unless the member was released. The member was freed over the weekend, but carried with him a warning from L...