IBT Staff Reporter

Western oil firms are unlikely to face widespread asset seizures or contract revisions as a result of Arab uprisings, thanks to deft diplomacy, legal protections and efforts to depict themselves as partners of the local citizenry.

Ford Motor Company's passenger car joint venture in China, Changan Ford Mazda Automobile (CFMA), broke ground on Thursday on a $500 million engine factory in southwest China.

Six more employees of Tokyo Electric Power Co. working at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant were exposed to more radiation than allowed, the Japanese Newspaper Asahi Shimbun reported today.

Asian stocks slid to their lowest level in nearly three months on Thursday and the euro wobbled as Greece's debt troubles deepened and fresh U.S. data indicated its economic soft patch could drag on longer than expected.

Boston sports fans will remember June 15, 2011 for a long time. The Boston Bruins won Game 7 over the Vancouver Canucks 4-0. Not since 1972 have Bruins taken home a Stanley Cup.

Alibaba Group said on Thursday it has reorganized Taobao, China's largest e-commerce website, into three separate companies to better capture opportunities in the industry.

At least 41 Malaysian government websites were hacked into overnight but no personal or financial data were compromised, government officials said on Thursday, as the Southeast Asian nation becomes the latest target of a cyber-war waged by the activists.

Japan's Toshiba Corp said on Thursday that it and Hewlett Packard Co will tie up on cloud computing services to support public networks ranging from power, water and gas services to information technology systems.

Talks between the union representing 4,000 workers at four New York City area Macy's Inc stores, including its Herald Square flagship, and the company could continue past the midnight deadline on Wednesday to avert a strike at Macy's for the first time since 1972.

The Boston Bruins won the Stanley Cup after beating the Vancouver Canucks 4-0. The seven grueling games featured vicious hits, including a cheap shot late hit by Aaron Rome on Nathan Horton in Game 3.

Boston Bruins won the Stanley Cup finals 2011 with a huge lead 4-0 over the Vancouver Canucks, Patrice Bergeron got the goals and Tim Thomas made the saves that will go down in Boston Bruins history.

The 2011 lunar eclipse-- believed to bring one of the darkest nights in roughly a century-- was not visible in North America. That's too bad for Rep. Anthony Weiner.

At least six Malaysian government websites were hacked into overnight after the Internet vigilante group Anonymous threatened to punish the authorities for censorship.

U.S. regulators have granted Harbinger Capital-backed LightSquared another two weeks to explain GPS interference issues related to a high-speed wireless network it wants to build, according to the FCC's website.

Miami Heat star LeBron James infamously left the Cleveland Cavaliers organization last year in a televised announcement dubbed The Decision and took his talents to South Beach as James put it.

Hewlett-Packard Co sued Oracle Corp on Wednesday over a chip dispute, highlighting the ever-growing breach between the one-time allies.

A congresswoman may strengthen a data breach bill to quell concerns it would do too little to force companies to alert customers of data breaches promptly.

Hacker group LulzSec is relentlessly continuing its attack: the public website of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) i.e. www.cia.gov was hacked by the group and taken down temporarily on Wednesday even as the U.S. Senate said it had foiled a renewed hacking bid by the same group.

Harbinger Capital-backed LightSquared asked U.S. regulators for another two weeks to explain GPS interference issues related to a high-speed wireless network it wants to build, the company said on Wednesday.

LulzSec claimed on Wednesday its responsibility for hacking the website for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Tango Down - cia.gov - for the lulz, the group tweeted at around 6 p.m., June 15.

InterContinental Hotels Group Plc is switching 25,000 of its employees and hotel managers onto an email system managed by Google Inc in place of Microsoft's Corp's Outlook.

Tour de France runner-up Andy Schleck recently spoke about his competition for winning the Tour which is set to start on July 2.

Investors learned a hard lesson on Wednesday about red-hot Internet companies: they can go cold very quickly.

With J.C. Penney’s announcement that Ron Johnson will become their next CEO, many analysts have been wondering who will fill the large void left at Apple.

California legislators on Wednesday passed the main bill of a budget package that would rely on an Internet sales tax, spending cuts and fee hikes, and a host of rosy forecasts to close a $10 billion shortfall.

Automatic Data Processing Inc, the world's largest payroll processor, on Wednesday said it had become the latest big financial company attacked by cyber criminals.

The Lulz Security group of hackers behind recent attacks on Sony, the U.S. Senate and News Corp, said in a Tweet that it has set up a telephone hotline for suggestions on targets.

Pippa's backside is honored in 'PEOPLE' magazine's new hottest bodies issue.