IBT Staff Reporter

Wall Street stocks fell on Tuesday, led lower by Nasdaq, as the euro zone's continuing debt crisis kept nervous investors on edge.

Amazon.com Inc has taken the first step toward asking California voters to repeal a new law requiring websites that forward shoppers to it to collect sales tax, a spokeswoman for the state's attorney general said on Monday.

The first Facebook phone will hit the US July 17.

NEW YORK - Small and medium-sized companies are increasingly glum about the chances of a pickup in growth in the U.S. economy over the next year, a survey published on Tuesday showed.

Networking equipment company Cisco Systems Inc could eliminate as many as 10,000 jobs, or about 14 percent of its workforce, to revive profit growth, Bloomberg said, citing two people familiar with the matter.

When William and Kate visited Skid Row in California, the Duchess of Cambridge did a little doodle that might one day be worth a lot of money.

Emma Watson made an appearance on Monday's Late Show with David Letterman before heading off to the NYC premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2. The talk show host presses Watson on her drinking history.

Confidence among U.S. business owners slipped last month amid expectations of weak sales and a deterioration in business conditions over the next six months, a survey showed on Tuesday.

The 'first of its kind' deal was negotiated by the U.N.-led Medicines Patent Pool, a partnership that raises money for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, for California-based drugmaker, Gilead Sciences Inc., to allow four of its AIDS drugs to be made by generic drug companies.

Emma Watson's Bottega Veneta dress at the Harry Potter premiere in New York.

Wall Street was headed for a third day of losses on Tuesday as the euro zone crisis rattled investors, although their fears seemed to dissipate through the morning as stock index futures came off their lows.

Gold prices have soared to record highs this year on concerns over the euro zone debt crisis, and the metal could be set for another leg higher if the world's biggest economy, the United States, also starts to struggle with its debt repayments.

Atleast 12 people were killed and 60 injured on Monday after a depot containing seized Iranian arms exploded at Cyprus main naval base damaging the island’s biggest power station.

Apple's fear of Android phones has reached a new high as it filed a patent infringement complaint against Taiwanese phone maker HTC with the International Trade Commission (ITC). Here is list of new and old HTC Android phones which can give iPhone 5 a run for its money.

Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho has said they are looking to sign one more attacker, with Carlos Tevez linked with the Spanish giants, although Chelsea defender Alex could also make the move to Santiago Bernabeu.

European banks were battered by mounting fears Greece is heading for a disorderly default and the debt crisis could spread to Italy, sending shares skidding more than 3 percent Tuesday to a two-year low.

The News Corp scandal and the main protagonists deserve a film

Wall Street was headed for a third day of losses on Tuesday as fears of a systemic crisis in the euro zone grew, sending index futures sharply lower.

Argentina bagged their first win in the Copa America on Monday with a deserved 3-0 win over Costa Rica to secure their place in the quarter-finals of the tournament.

Retailers have cash on their balance sheets and nearly half of 100 top retail executives said they are planning to spend it on technology, a survey said on Tuesday.

Gilead Sciences, the leading maker of HIV drugs, is to share intellectual property rights on its medicines in a patent pool designed to make treatments more widely available to the poor.

Google’s new networking site Google+ has brought along with it the debate of survival chances of the social networking giant Facebook.

Apple Inc's chief patent counsel will soon leave the company, at a time when the company is fighting numerous legal battles around the world, according to a source familiar with the situation.

Stock index futures pointed to a sharp fall in share prices on Tuesday after equities on Wall Street recorded their biggest fall in about a month in the previous session as concerns grew that the euro zone debt crisis could engulf other countries.

Sprint Nextel has received subpoenas from nine states in connection with antitrust reviews of AT&T's proposed $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile USA, according to a Sprint letter posted on the Federal Communications Commission website.

Having escaped the Holocaust as boys, two 80-year-old Jewish doctors from the United States have returned to Vienna to swim in the European Maccabi Games and have the last laugh at the Nazis who tormented their youth.

Peabody Energy and ArcelorMittal are likely to succeed with their $5 billion takeover offer for Macarthur Coal , investors bet on Tuesday, driving up shares in the world's biggest producer of pulverized coal by 37 percent.

To date, China has been wary of leaning heavily on interest rate rises to combat inflation. But to tackle what Beijing just called its most prominent economic problem, that's likely to change.

The Apple App store, which is the driving force in Apple’s entire business model in the smartphone market, is seeing a boom, a report by Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster suggests.