IBT Staff Reporter

PBS will take a warts-and-all look at the life of recently deceased computer pioneer Steve Jobs with the premiere of Steve Jobs -- One Last Thing on November 2, the network announced Wednesday.

Reboots have had a pretty spotty track record on TV of late, but NBC is apparently hoping that a chestnut from the Stephen J. Cannell catalog can reverse that trend.

British singer Adele regained the top spot on the Billboard Top 200 album chart on Wednesday, marking her 13th week at No. 1 with 21 and making it the first album since the Titanic film soundtrack to claim as many weeks atop the chart.

Hello! Lionel Richie is going country.

With Hispanic voters upset at Republican presidential candidates over immigration, President Barack Obama played to a Latino audience on a trip to the West this week to shore up support from a group that is key to his re-election hopes.

A turf war between the Hells Angels and a rival motorcycle gang that erupted outside a California Starbucks shop last year has left several men dead, wounded or missing in three states, stirring fears of more bloodshed.

Unionized workers at Chrysler Group LLC ratified a four-year labor pact on Wednesday, closing out the first round of talks since two of the three Detroit automakers nearly collapsed and took federal bailouts in 2009.

Visa Inc said its revenues grew at a slower pace in the latest quarter and it paid more in client incentives, sending its shares lower even though the payment processing company posted better-than-expected net income.

The National Security Agency, a secretive arm of the U.S. military, has begun providing Wall Street banks with intelligence on foreign hackers, a sign of growing U.S. fears of financial sabotage.

The House Judiciary Committee unveiled new legislation Wednesday designed to crack down on online piracy.

Did Steven Spielberg just pull a Shia LaBeouf?

Fairy tales are back with a darkened vengeance on U.S. television, scaring up a fright and putting a new twist on a genre long dominated by pretty princesses and charming princes.

Director Steve McQueen's Shame, a no-holds-barred movie about a man in the grip of sexual addiction, has officially received an NC-17 rating.

Patients of Michael Jackson's doctor described the physician on Wednesday as generous and kind as the defense sought to show a different side of the man charged in the singer's 2009 death.

The Arbor, Senna and The Interrupters are among the top nominees for the fifth annual Cinema Eye Honors, one of the top awards given to nonfiction films.

Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Jeff Bezos is thumbing his nose at Wall Street again and some investors don't like it.

Strong demand for commercial and military aircraft lifted quarterly earnings at Boeing Co , making the builder of the new 787 Dreamliner the latest big-ticket manufacturer to ease fears about global economic conditions.

Symantec Corp, the top maker of computer security software, failed to match Wall Street's high hopes for future sales growth even as the company benefits from a raised awareness of hackers.

Olympus Corp head Tsuyoshi Kikukawa resigned on Wednesday after a scandal over hefty advisory fees wiped out half of the 92-year-old firm's market value while his successor stuck with the company's line that it had done nothing wrong.

President Obama announced a much-heralded plan on Wednesday to help recent college graduates struggling to pay back their student loans. Reactions were mixed, with some people lauding the President for taking decisive action and others saying he didn't go far enough.

Google Inc paid $151 million in cash to acquire popular restaurant review guide Zagat in September, the Internet company said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday.

Visa Inc said on Wednesday quarterly net income rose by 14 percent, as the company processed more card payments and payment volumes increased.

Big investors are showing interest in an evolving Obama administration plan to sell off foreclosed homes, although the government will have to make the offer sweet enough to coax private funds.

Production workers at Chrysler Group LLC voted in favor of a tentative labor contract, but in a rare twist, skilled-trades workers rejected the 4-year deal, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it will delay by a month final standards on emissions from hydraulic fracturing, its third postponement of air pollution rules since early September.

Sprint finally owned up to the massive bet it is making on iPhone, sending its shares down as much as 12 percent on Wednesday.

Spend a little time with the average U.S. chief executive and you'll see someone who seems pretty confident -- who spends the day making decisions and giving orders, and not a lot of time second-guessing himself.

Every dark cloud has its humorous lining and Europe's seemingly non-stop debt and currency crisis is no exception.

Workers represented by the United Auto Workers union ratified a four-year contract with Chrysler Group LLC, the last Detroit automaker to reach a labor deal.