IBT Staff Reporter

The bubble in mobile phone technology patent values may just have popped.

Each year, more than 5,000 American children end up in the hospital after falling out of windows, medical records show.

The chief of Standard & Poor's will step down next month, to be replaced by a senior Citibank executive, in a move announced a few weeks after the credit rating agency downgraded U.S. government debt and sparked a row with Washington.

Deven Sharma will step down as president of ratings agency Standard & Poor's to work on the company's strategic portfolio review before leaving the company at the end of the year.

Hewlet-Packard, commonly known as HP, announced Thursday that it would stop selling its recently launched TouchPad tablet as well as all WebOS-based smartphones, such as the Palm Pre 2, HP Veer, and the upcoming Palm Pre 3.

The president of Standard & Poor's, Deven Sharma, is stepping down, just a few weeks after the ratings firm issued a controversial downgrade of U.S. government debt, the Financial Times reported.

Foster's Group posted an 8.7 percent fall in underlying full-year profit, a rare decline reflecting a depressed beer market, weakening the brewer's bargaining position as it fends off a hostile $10 billion takeover offer from SABMiller .

Two of eHarmony Inc's main backers stand to gain extra leverage over the online-dating company in early November when redemption rights from its last financing round kick in -- an unusual development in the venture capital business.

A federal judge on Monday narrowed a lawsuit by EMI Group Ltd and 14 record companies and music publishers that accused MP3tunes LLC of letting users copy their songs without permission.

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein hires Reid Weingarten, a high-profile defense attorney.

A lawyer representing the Kentucky man who testified against Dr. John Patterson in the Shelby County Circuit Court, the doctor who amputated Seaton's penis without asking his permission, told jurors on Monday his client doesn't feel like a man.

A New York state judge granted the request of dozens of investors including pension funds, insurers and several Federal Home Loan Banks to intervene in Bank of America Corp's proposed $8.5 billion settlement with investors who lost money on mortgage-backed securities.

Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson is famous for saying the stock market predicted nine of the last five recessions.

Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein has hired high-profile Washington defense attorney Reid Weingarten, according to a government source, as the Justice Department continues to investigate the bank.

New evidence suggests that our ancestors have been cooking and processing food as far back as 1.9 million years ago. This could explain why humans have small teeth, as we don't need to spend our time chewing as much as animals.

More than ninety schools in California are taking advantage of the California Solar Initiative and installing solar projects. The California Solar Initiative is an incentive program to get companies, schools, and homes to switch to solar power. The program gives cash back for installing solar power, California hopes to move the state towards running completely on clean energy, from using a coffee maker in the morning, to opening your garage door, California wants its residents to operate on sola...

Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney on Monday said the Federal Reserve should not go ahead with another round of monetary stimulus to boost the U.S. economy, because it would risk kicking up inflation.

Toshiba Corp <6502.T> will increase production of industrial motors five times the current level by 2015 for the Chinese market, the Nikkei business daily reported.

S.O.S./State of Security -- a devastating documentary about 9/11 and its aftermath -- is having a tough time getting distribution on home soil as the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack approaches.

Florida's attorney general said Monday that a motion by Casey Anthony's defense attorneys that said she should not have to serve probation on check fraud charges are absurd. The attorney general said that a clerical error is not a good enough reason for her to not serve probation.

Hurricane Irene, threatening to become the first hurricane to hit the United States in three years, could be the catalyst the insurance industry has been seeking in its quest for across-the-board premium increases after years of weakness.

If the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack had merely gone platinum, it would have been the unlikeliest million-seller of all time. But, having actually sold a staggering 8 million copies, the salute to vintage hillbilly music represented something more like a tear in the space-time continuum -- an inexplicable trip to an alternate America where, for a few wonderful minutes, the Stanley Brothers were even bigger than the Backstreet Boys.

The Dude abides ... on Facebook. Universal said on Thursday that it will begin offering the Coen brothers' stoner classic The Big Lebowski through its Facebook fan page.

Is it possible Barbra Streisand's voice could actually get better with age?

Johnny Knoxville and poignant usually don't occur in the same sentence, but the Jackass star is set to topline a comedy its producers call outlandish yet poignant.

Recommendations to unload Google Inc stock are extremely rare on Wall Street. But the latest sell rating for the Internet company was so fleeting it existed for just three trading days.

A microbial bacteria fossil discovered by Australian resesarchers may be proof of life on Earth before oxygen 3.4 billion years ago. The Strelley Pool Formation in Western Australia houses stromatolites which have been preserved there.

Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein has hired Reid Weingarten, a high-profile Washington defense attorney whose past clients include a former Enron accounting officer, according to a government source familiar with the matter.

University of California students will pay more in tuition this year than the public funding that the UC system receives from the state.