IBT Staff Reporter

McDonald's has decided to make its popular Happy Meals healthier by adding fruit or veggie to the meal and decrease the portion of French Fries, the company announced today.

Seattle Seahawks free-agent quarterback Matt Hasselbeck has talked with 49ers officials about joining the team.

Eastman Kodak Co posted another loss as the once-iconic photography company faced high raw material costs and struggled to shift its focus from film toward digital cameras and printers.

The latest leaked images show Apple's upcoming iPhone 5 having a curved back and a bigger 4-inch screen. The images support the rumors concerning the device's edge-to-edge screen.

Three days after being found dead, the lifeless body of the Grammy award-winning singer, Amy Winehouse was laid to rest on Tuesday morning.

Amazon.com Inc will use its surging revenue to boost growth and drive expansion into areas such as Web content and cloud computing rather than boost its margins.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc is opening its first small store in Chicago this week in the first true test of a store format the world's largest retailer hopes will let it penetrate urban markets that it so far has had trouble cracking.

Only 15% of people who consume fast food in New York City check the calorie information on the menus, according to a study published in British Medical Journal (BMJ).

Senator Al Franken called on federal regulators on Tuesday to reject AT&T's proposed buy of rival T-Mobile, saying it would mean pricier wireless and could cost thousands of jobs.

Singer and Missouri native Sheryl Crow is auctioning her vintage Mercedes convertible to help rebuild ten schools destroyed or damaged by a deadly May tornado in the town of Joplin.

Chicago Bears standout center Olin Kreutz will be on the free agent market this week, soon after the signing period begins. That doesn't mean that Kreutz wants to test the market.

As the Tour de France approached the Alps, Cadel Evans was in the perfect position to win the entire race, since he only needed to keep up with his rivals on the mountains and then put in a good time trial performance which he was capable of doing.

Two days after same-sex marriage became legal in New York, the state's attorney general has taken legal action challenging the constitutionality of the U.S. law which defines marriage as between a man and woman.

The names of jurors in the Casey Anthony murder trial will remain secret until at least October 25 to allow those enraged by her acquittal to "compose and restrain themselves," according to the judge's order on Tuesday.

Cable company Comcast Corp is teaming up with its NBC Universal unit to help programmers dynamically place commercials around on-demand TV shows in a bid to drive new advertising revenue.

Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc, reported a narrower-than-expected loss and raised its second-quarter earnings forecast, as it sold more copies of the puzzle game Portal 2 than expected and pocketed more money on digital games.

Triple Tour de France champion Alberto Contador's Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) hearing over a failed dope test, due to start on August 1, has been postponed until at least November, the Swiss court said on Tuesday.

The North American brokerage arm of UBS AG said on Tuesday that its second-quarter earnings benefited from higher fee and interest income, and that contrary to ongoing chatter, the unit is not for sale.

The United States will lose its top-notch AAA credit rating from at least one major rating agency, according to a Reuters poll that also found wrangling over the debt ceiling has already damaged the economy.

Facebook has made it easier for users to opt out of its controversial facial-recognition technology for photographs, an effort to address concerns that it had violated consumers' privacy.

Amazon.com Inc reported a dip in earnings but its revenue forecast raced past Wall Street's expectations, propelling its shares higher in after-hours trade.

Amazon.com Inc reported a surge in quarterly revenue and said revenue for the current quarter would be better than expected, sending its shares up more than 6 percent.

Amazon.com Inc reported a surge in quarterly revenue on sales of its kindle electronic reader and other electronics and forecast far better-than-expected revenue for the current quarter, sending its shares up more than 6 percent.

Astronomers found a reservoir of water measuring 140 trillion times the earth's ocean water in space. The reservoir of water is the most distant ever discovered in the universe, said two teams of researchers.

Amazon reported a fall in profit, but a surge in sales on Tuesday. The surge was mainly attributed to strong sales of Kindle e-reader, subsidized by advertising.

A downgrade of the United States' AAA credit rating is a bigger risk than a default and could over time add up to 0.7 percentage point to bond yields, members of a U.S. securities industry group said on Tuesday.

The largest Internet retailer benefited from growth in e-commerce, though margins continued to be pressured by heavy spending on distribution, technology and digital content.

California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law on Monday a bill allowing illegal immigrants to receive privately funded scholarships to attend the state's public colleges and universities.

Many of the world's leading steelmakers warn that profits in the second half of this year will be hurt because of the slow economic recovery, along with lower steel prices and higher raw material costs.