IBT Staff Reporter

At the News Corporation annual shareholder meeting Friday, those in attendance will get the chance to vote on splitting the role of Chairman and CEO.

An accused member of the clandestine hacking group LulzSec pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges of taking part in an extensive computer breach of the Sony Pictures Entertainment film studio.

Texas law enforcement officials say several Mexican drug cartels are luring youngsters as young as 11 to work in their smuggling operations.

Five people protesting economic inequality were arrested in San Francisco on Sunday night for trying to stop the dismantling of their camp near the regional Federal Reserve building, police said.

As his profile and poll numbers grow, so has the scrutiny on Herman Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan

Apple Inc said on Monday it sold 4 million iPhone 4S in the new smartphone's first three days on the market, setting up a strong December quarter for the world's largest technology company.

An offer of free games, translation software or other apps to compensate BlackBerry users for last week's prolonged outage left Research In Motion investors cool on Monday, and the shares fell 6 percent.

The U.S. wireless industry is rolling out more consumer-friendly billing practices, fending off a plan by communications regulators to impose new rules against unexpected charges.

Last month's announcement by a team of scientists that it had observed sub-atomic particles called neutrinos moving faster than the speed of light has been challenged in a new paper by independent researcher Ronald A.J. van Elburg at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Dr. van Elburg's paper contends that the position of the GPS satellites helping synchronize recorded neutrino flight times relative to the Earth caused an error in the team's calculations.

Despite reports Monday claiming he would throw his support behind Mitt Romney, Senator Jim DeMint said he had not decided who he would support in the Republican presidential primary -- or even if he would offer an endorsement.

The United States is not trying hard enough as a nation to win business overseas, and that is contributing to its economic slump, said General Electric Co Chief Executive Jeff Immelt.

A German satellite, out of control, is set to plunge back to Earth this week.

Gannett announced a small decline in third-quarter earnings Monday, mostly due to declines in print advertising.

English author and four-time nominee Julian Barnes, who once dismissed the Man Booker Prize for fiction as posh bingo, is favored to win it on Tuesday with his novel The Sense of an Ending.

Occupy Seattle protesters were removed from Westlake Park Monday morning when Seattle police and parks employees took down all 150 tents and arrested nine people.

Stocks fell on Monday as traders rushed to buy protection against a further decline in the market after comments from Germany's finance minister heightened concerns about the euro zone's debt crisis.

Hedge fund manager David Einhorn is betting that Green Mountain Coffee Roasters will lose its buzz, pushing the company's share price down 11 percent on Monday.

Taiwan's HTC Corp lost a patent infringement complaint filed against Apple Inc in a preliminary decision at the U.S. International Trade Commission on Monday.

The tragic death of Dan Wheldon, the two-time Indianapolis 500 winner, is mourned by many and countless people have expressed their respect for him and sorrow over his loss on the Twittersphere.

President Barack Obama has received the most unrelentingly negative media coverage of any presidential candidate in the past five months, according to a Pew Research Center study released Monday.

The flash sales business has lost some of its flash, forcing online luxury clothing merchants such as Gilt Groupe, Ideeli and Rue La La to radically change their business models.

PepsiCo Inc expects healthier products to make up as much as 30 percent of its portfolio in 10 years, as the company expands its range of juice, dairy and grain products.

With his wife still working and the couple’s finances under control, Davey figures that he has the ideal plan in place. All that remains is to land a part-time job with another library to put the icing on the cake. But after submitting close to 20 resumes, Davey hasn’t fielded a single interview.

Hundreds of friends and family of Elizabeth Taylor gathered on a Hollywood movie studio lot on Sunday for a memorial celebration of the screen star, who died earlier this year at the age of 79.

Conservative agitator Pat Buchanan’s new book says America might not survive until 2025; it’s called “The Suicide of a Superpower.” Even less alarmist observers are suddenly sounding a lot like Buchanan, as economists now predict that China may surpass the United States as the world’s largest economy a lot sooner than we thought, and important conferences are convened to deal with what Fareed Zakaria memorably dubbed “the post-American world.”

Michael Sitrick is the biggest name in crisis management, but the public relations guru is grappling with plunging earnings and a stream of executive defections that have set tongues wagging.

The cancellation of the first two weeks of games in the National Basketball League (NBA) has left Europe's Euroleague, albeit temporarily, as the world's top club competition promising an exciting season.

The Supreme Court said on Monday that it would decide whether a federal law making it a crime to lie about being awarded a military medal or decoration violated free-speech rights.

Web.com Group, a provider of Web design, email, marketing and advertising services to local businesses, said it expected to save far more than the $30 million it previously predicted from buying bigger rival Network Solutions.