IBT Staff Reporter

Labor Day weekend movie releases generally let you know that you've reached the utter dregs of the summer movie season; it's the cinematic equivalent of reaching into the cooler, only to find a Clamato and a diet peach soda floating around in the dirty, melted ice.

The new movie Apollo 18 about a cover up of a failed mission to the moon is not real, says NASA.

Central banks from around the world are placing record sums of money into the Fed as a safe haven, at amounts even higher than during the Lehman Brothers meltdown.

Netflix Inc shares lost 11 percent of their value on Friday following the collapse of its content distribution talks with pay-TV operator Starz Entertainment, underscoring investor concerns that it may lose its edge in the online rental market.

Microsoft will be the winner in Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility as the deal makes Google a direct rival to its phone-making clients, a senior executive from Acer Inc said on Friday.

Wall Street stocks dropped on Friday, with major indexes falling as much as 2 percent as Labor Department data showed jobs growth flatlined in August, intensifying worries the economy is staggering.

Campbell Soup Co reported higher-than-expected quarterly results on Friday, helped by fewer profit-sapping promotions in its long-struggling U.S. soup business.

Madonna may be the queen of pop, but her crown as movie director slipped this week after most early reviews of her second feature film W.E. ranged from middling to poor.

With nanotechnology, the era of designer light is dawning on us, now that the optical laws of reflection and refraction were defied and redefined.

Fox News will tap into Google’s technology to include viewers in a jointly-hosted Republican presidential debate.

Netflix's stock takes a beating after Starz decides to not renew its contract with the streaming movie company.

China's top search engine Baidu Inc is on the lookout for potential acquisitions and investment opportunities in the mobile and cloud computing spaces, its chief financial officer said on Friday.

Five prominent news organizations which collaborated with WikiLeaks have condemned the website and its founder Julian Assange for making public uncensored copies of more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables.

Garmin Ltd is looking to challenge rival TomTom's leading position in the European market for portable navigation devices though its acquisition of Germany-based Navigon, its executive said on Friday.

Wikileaks on Friday has confirmed that it has released an entire archive of 251,287 unredacted U.S. diplomatic cables, endangering the lives of individuals whose names were exposed.

Oil and an oil sheen covering several square miles of water are surfacing near the site of last year's BP Macondo Well disaster, prompting concerns that the well might not be plugged as Tropical Storm Lee gathers strength.

Madonna may be the queen of pop, but her crown as movie director slipped this week after most early reviews of her second feature film W.E. ranged from middling to poor.

Big box retailer Best Buy has slashed up to $150 off the U.S. price tag for Research In Motion's PlayBook tablet computer for the Labor Day weekend.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has put out a warning that the U.S. is at a heightened state of vigilance, leading up to the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

A U.S. regulator will soon file lawsuits against major banks accusing them of bundling subprime home loans into bonds that never should have been sold to investors and causing mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to lose billions, according to a source familiar with the matter.

U.S. employment growth ground to a halt in August as sagging confidence discouraged already skittish businesses from hiring, piling pressure on the Federal Reserve to provide more stimulus to aid the economy.

Shares of Netflix Inc fell more than 10 percent in pre-market trading on Friday, a day after Pay-TV operator Starz Entertainment decided not to renew its contract with the movie-rental company.

New York City firefighters exposed to toxic dust and fumes in the 9/11 World Trade Center (WTC) disaster may be more likely to develop cancer than those unexposed, according to a recent study published Thursday.

Wall Street stocks tumbled on Friday, with major indexes falling as much as 2 percent as data showed U.S. jobs growth flatlined in August, exacerbating worries the economy is faltering.

Bill Burke and certain other investors have offered Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team owner Frank McCourt $1.2 billion for the bankrupt team, a Los Angeles Times report said, citing two people familiar with the contents of an offer letter.

Stocks opened more than 1 percent lower on Friday after data showed U.S. employment growth ground to a halt in August, adding to worries about the health of the economy.

This year's Atlantic hurricane season has been jam-packed, with 12 named storms in three months -- the total number of named storms seen in a normal six-month season. Why is 2011 proving more active than 2009 or 2010?

AT&T is going to make concessions to get the T-Mobile deal approved according to a report from Reuters.

AT&T Inc is expected to soon present a proposed solution to U.S. antitrust regulators to salvage its planned $39 billion acquisition of smaller rival T-Mobile USA, according to people close to the matter.