IBT Staff Reporter

The Tour de France 2011 moves into Stage 19 between the town of Mondane to a mountain top finish on the famed Alpe d'Huez.

Apple's iPad is on a tear in the enterprise, and is now being activated more often than Android smartphones, according to the latest data from Good Technology.

Amazon.com Inc's cloud computing unit may be its next billion-dollar business and analysts will be watching for clues on how fast this secretive unit is growing when the Internet retailer reports results next week.

A heat wave is gripping the United States with temperatures soaring into the triple digits. With weather this hot, we've got some tips for staying cool on this hot summer day.

Angela Merkel will deny it, but Thursday's euro zone deal to rescue Greece again from the brink of bankruptcy puts Europe on the bumpy road to a fiscal union.

Prospects of Sarah Palin running for President in 2012 fade as the former Alaska governor continues to slip on Republican ratings, even as former George W. Bush aide Ari Fleischer articulated the sentiment.

NASA discusses the latest Mars Rover and its plans to visit the red planet.

Alexander Calder, arguably one of the most celebrated sculpture of the 20th century was the inspiration behind Friday's Google Doodle.

Senior executives at Morgan Stanley expressed impatience with the profitability of the company's retail brokerage business on Thursday, despite reporting progress in the unit's joint venture with Citigroup's Smith Barney.

The Dow fell on Friday after disappointing results from Caterpillar and Microsoft, reversing optimism after a strong week of earnings.

The News of the World scandal is creating diverging accounts of who knew what when it came to media executive James Murdoch's recent testimony about a phone hacking before a parliamentary panel in London.

Customers at an Apple Store in the Chinese city of Kunming berated staff and demanded refunds on Friday after the shop was revealed to be an elaborate fake, sparking a media and Internet frenzy.

The explosion damaged Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's office, causing most of his office windows to break. At least eight people were hurt or injured and at least one person was killed, according to the local media NRK.

A U.S. appeals court has rejected a new Securities and Exchange Commission rule designed to make it easier for shareholders to nominate directors to corporate boards.

General Electric Co reported a 21.6 percent rise in profit, topping estimates, boosted by strong demand outside the United States for its heavy equipment including jet engines and electric turbines.

General Electric Co notched a better-than-expected 21.6 percent rise in earnings, helped by strong demand for jet engines as well as equipment used in oil and natural gas production.

Google Doodle is a celebration of Alexander Calder and HTML5.

It's this time of the year again. We just want to scurry to the rivers and jump right in. But not so soon this time. New York City warned people to stay out of the Hudson and Harlem Rivers on one of the hottest weekends of the year after millions of gallons of untreated sewage discharged from Manhattan into the waterways because of a four-alarm fire that shut down one of the city's largest sewage treatment plants.

Justin Timberlake joins the Twilight cast at Comic-Con 2011.

Heavy machinery maker Caterpillar Inc disappointed Wall Street with a second-quarter earnings miss on Friday, hurt by higher costs for raw materials and labor, and its shares fell 6.5 percent in morning trading, dragging down the U.S. stock market.

Verizon Communications failed to gain market share against AT&T Inc in iPhone sales in its first full quarter selling Apple Inc's device, sending shares down as much as 3 percent.

It's only the beginning, shockingly, for this summer's heat wave, which weather officials say will get worse in August, and state heat advisories can't keep up with the sizzling path across the country with heat indexes over 100 degrees in many places.

Verizon Communications failed to gain market share against AT&T Inc in iPhone sales in its first full quarter selling Apple Inc's device, sending shares down as much as 3 percent.

Apple's star device iPad is the undisputed leader in the consumer segment of the tablet market and is now on the roll to capture the enterprise tablet segment as well.

Verizon didn't add as many iPhones as AT&T but did well financially in the second quarter regardless.

An American blogger who stumbled upon a near flawless fake Apple Store in China has become an Internet sensation after her post went viral and triggered a feisty debate about piracy in the world's second largest economy.

McDonald's Corp reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Friday as its low-price focus helped drive strong sales in Europe and the United States.

Stocks were little changed on Friday as a profit miss from Caterpillar and disappointing sales from Microsoft offset strong earnings from GE and McDonald's and a new deal to help Greece.

So strong is the appeal of the Apple brand in China, some Chinese are willing to sell a kidney to pay for its gadgets.