IBT Staff Reporter

Agent Scott Boras, known for his tough negotiating tactics and for landing large and long-term contracts for baseball players, has been courting New York Mets shortstop Jose Reyes. Agents regularly meet with the clients of other agents, and Reyes has been pursued by agents in the past. But the Mets front office is likely nervous about Boras' activity.

Barnes & Noble's new Nook ebook reader, named 'Simple Touch Reader', has ranked higher than its rival Amazon's latest Kindle, according to a new Consumer Reports ranking.

The Roman Catholic Church, often accused of dragging its feet on sexual abuse scandals, will turn to the Internet with a new e-learning center to help safeguard children and the victims of molestation.

Facebook plans to debut its iPad and iPad 2 app within this month despite some bumpy history and speculations of the two companies being at odds.

In a radio interview last week on Absolute Radio, an Internet radio station, Paul McCartney said he, George Harrison and Ringo Starr tried to talk John Lennon out of breaking up the Beatles, but Lennon was adamant.

Distressed debt and real estate investor Oaktree Capital Group filed with U.S. regulators to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering of its class A units, the latest financial firm to seek a public listing.

Thousands of Greeks marched on parliament on Saturday in a show of unabated public anger after Prime Minister George Papandreou reshuffled his cabinet and vowed to push on with a belt-tightening campaign.

Barcelona's highly-rated youngster Thiago Alcantara has alerted clubs around Europe after revealing that this future at the Catalan's is uncertain.

The young golfer has the sports world mesmerized after his record-setting round yesterday at the U.S. Open in Bethesda, Md. Here are 13 facts about the right-handed player from Northern Ireland.

All parties negotiating a new bailout for debt-strapped Greece agree that private creditors should be involved, but the details of how that would happen are still under discussion, Germany's finance minister said.

Toronto-listed Sino-Forest, already under pressure from a short-seller's report alleging theft and fraud, appears to have substantially overstated its forestry holdings in China's Yunnan province, Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper said on Saturday.

Microsoft’s gaming device, Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360, has made a cake walk with a sale of more than 10 million units, since its launch in November.

Chelsea's pursuit of Tottenham's creative force Luka Modric has been handed a boost after the Croatian expressed his desire to leave Spurs, as he seeks to play Champions League football and challenge for the Premier League title.

Russian internet firms are winning the capital of foreign investors due to their ability to bypass country-specific risks while attracting users and advertising revenue.

Hacker group LulzSec released their 1000th tweet statement, so called a manifesto, to its friends and foes providing its rationale for its recent activities, proclaiming that “this is the lulz lizard era, where we do things just because we find it entertaining.”

Will Microsoft follow the path of Redmond to get rid of the third-party accessories from Xbox 360?

Even before a loosely organized group of hackers broke into the CIA's and Senate's public websites, the White House asked for stiffer sentences for breaking into government and private computer networks.

Israeli protests against the hike in cottage cheese price is gaining momentum on Facebook as more than 1,500 people are signing up every hour calling for a boycott of the product.

A man who died last year of lung disease while inhaling toxic debris when the World Trade Center collapsed has been added to the list of victims killed in the Sept. 11 attacks, the New York City Chief Medical Examiner's office said on Friday.

The S&P 500's 200-day moving average is the line in the sand as the bulls and the bears fight over the U.S. stock market's direction. It will face one of its stiffest tests next week with Greece's debt crisis appearing to reach a climax.

United Airlines frequent flyer Tom Stuker is a real Up in the Air flyer, soon to reach his 10 million miles flying milestone like George Clooney's character Ryan Bingham in the movie.

Simon Mulhall, a resident of Banbury in UK, made good use of social networking site Facebook to retrieve his stolen bike. The incident gained wide attention after it was reported by the BBC.

After a major computer system's failure, United Airlines systems are back online as the airlines is in the process of resuming ops after a series of flight delays and cancellations.

Tokyo Electric Power Co <9501.T> will ask major life insurers, including Nippon Life and Dai-ichi Life <8750.T>, for hundreds of billions of yen in additional loans as it faces big bills in restoring control over a crippled nuclear plant and paying for fuel costs for thermal plants, Japan's Asahi newspaper reported on Saturday.

Research In Motion(RIM) once dominant of smartphone space has seen its shares drop by 20 per cent, taking it to the lowest level in almost five years, as the consumers shift their attention to sleeker phones from competitors like Apple.

Nestle , the world's largest food group, expects the upward trend in raw material prices to persist, and its global operations provide a natural hedge against the strength of the Swiss franc, its chief executive said on Saturday.

United Airlines issued a systemwide travel waiver, late Friday night due to airline's major computer system outage that caused flight delays and cancellations.

United Airlines computer systems are back up and running, the airline announced in a twitter message.

On Friday, United Airlines experienced a major computer systems outage which caused tens of thousands of passengers to be stranded with flights delayed or cancelled, including at San Francisco International Airport (SFO).