IBT Staff Reporter

Horror movie Paranormal Activity 3 jolted awake a sleepy movie box office with an estimated $80 million in global ticket sales over the weekend.

Same time next year. With the huge success of Paranormal Activity 3, expect yet another sequel next October.

Camille Guaty has a Crush.

Fox Searchlight's R-rated thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene grossed a solid $137,541 in four theaters this weekend for a per-screen average of $34,385, according to studio estimates.

Martha Marcy May Marlene may be drawing attention as the movie with the weird title, or the movie with the other Olsen sister in it. But there's a lot more to first-time Sean Durkin's creepy, unsettling drama than those obvious hooks.

Hey Trojans, Bruins and Kings fans: Game over.

John Mayer has undergone surgery for the throat inflammation that put his performances and recordings on hold earlier this year, the singer has reported on his blog.

News Corp's (NWSA.O) third-largest investor has urged Rupert Murdoch to sell all his newspapers and double the size of a share buy-back plan, the Sunday Telegraph reported.

HP TouchPad will once again hit the shelves at $99 sometime soon, according to an announcement on The Next Bench, a Hewlett-Packard blog.

France and Germany are close to a deal to leverage the euro zone bailout fund through first loss insurance for the primary bond market and a special purpose vehicle with an EFSF subordinated loan for the secondary market, euro zone officials said.

The president and co-manager of Fairholme Capital Management LLC has resigned, as the $8.9 billion mutual fund firm continues to suffer from bets on financial stocks and a real-estate development company.

As a young hockey player with dreams of making it big, Mark Carney liked to get revved up before a big game by listening to AC/DC's Hell's Bells.

Prospects for corporate earnings are dimmer in the coming quarters, even though reports so far this quarter have been relatively bright.

The ousted chief executive of Olympus Corp said the company's review of a $687 million payment to financial advisers has not gone far enough and said he was fired because he asked questions about the extraordinary fee, according to the Associated Press.

The government of Alberta, home to the bulk of Canada's oil sands, has written to EU experts voicing grave concerns that the bloc's plans to rank unconventional oil as a highly polluting fuel are unfair and a potential threat to trade ties.

European Union leaders met on Sunday to try to hammer out a comprehensive plan for tackling the euro zone debt crisis, but a breakthrough is not expected until another summit on Wednesday.

Shares of a handful of large tech companies including Apple Inc, Oracle Corp and eBay Inc are likely to increase by more than 20 percent over the next year, according to Barron's.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy backed down on Sunday in the face of implacable German opposition to demands to use unlimited European Central Bank funds to fight the euro zone's deepening sovereign debt crisis.

The United States will likely suffer the loss of its triple-A credit rating from another major rating agency by the end of this year due to concerns over the deficit, Bank of America Merrill Lynch forecasts.

Bankers have offered to stretch the voluntary haircut on Greek debt to 40 percent, while politicians demand the private sector agree to writedowns of at least 50 percent, senior German banking source said on Sunday.

Foreign investors eager to snap up development projects in key oil producer Iraq are unlikely to balk after the United States withdraws all its troops at the end of the year as long as security does not deteriorate.

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker is advocating for regulatory control over the money-market mutual fund industry and believes the government should stop financing mortgages.

News Corp's third-largest investor has urged Rupert Murdoch to sell all his newspapers and double the size of a share buy-back plan, the Sunday Telegraph reported.

Motorsport witnessed its second death from a crash, in the space of a week, after Italian Motorcyclist Marco Simoncelli was killed in a crash at the Malaysian Moto GP on Sunday.

Tokyo Electric Power Co is likely to sell a 20 percent stake in wind power developer Eurus Energy Holdings to trading firm Toyota Tsusho to help raise funds to compensate victims of Japan's nuclear crisis, a newspaper said on Sunday.

The long-standing Clovis model said that Clovis people first populated North America 13,000 years ago. A new archaeological finding now suggests we need to move on from this old theory.

The major online streaming service is coming to Nintendo devices by the end of the year.

After months of rumors, it's finally been confirmed: the new Galaxy Nexus is coming to the U.S. on Verizon Wireless. The carrier announced the news today in a press release that also outlined the features of the Galaxy Nexus, which is the first to go on the market with the new Android-based Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, as well as the first to feature a HD Super AMOLED display.

European Union leaders piled pressure on Italy on Sunday to speed up economic reforms to avoid a Greece-style meltdown as they began a crucial two-leg summit called to rescue the euro zone from a deepening sovereign debt crisis.