IBT Staff Reporter

Online radio company Pandora Media Inc filed terms for $109.5 million IPO on Thursday, as it moves ahead with an offering that could tap into the recent investor enthusiasm for Internet stocks.

Italian fashion house Prada plans to use most of the proceeds from its Hong Kong initial public offering on expansion and renovation of its stores over the next 18 months as the company bets on increasing demand for luxury products in China and the rest of Asia.

The recent Gmail hack involving stolen passwords are now being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. State Department. Google has pointed fingers to China, saying the cyber attack originated from there, which prompted responses from both China and the U.S officials.

Dwyane Wade scored 21 points and the Miami Heat scored the final nine points of the second quarter to tie the Dallas Mavericks 51-51 at halftime in Game 2 of the NBA finals Thursday night.

Washington scrambled on Thursday to assess whether security had been compromised after Google Inc revealed a major hacker attack targeting U.S. officials that the Internet giant pegged to China.

One of the most anticipated new services coming from Apple, theiCloud, will be provided for free initially, according to sources whospoke to LA Times.

Jurors couldn't believe a word said by police officers accused of fixing traffic tickets for friends and loved ones when they cleared a former Bronx prosecutor on felony DWI charges, Thursday.

Jaycee Dugard chose not to be present on Thursday when her kidnappers, including the man who raped and fathered two children with her when she was just a teenager.

A look back at China and Google's history against each other.

Jurors couldn't believe a word said by police officers accused of fixing traffic tickets for friends and loved ones when they cleared a former Bronx prosecutor on felony DWI charges, Thursday.

Suspicion that some individual or entity in China was behind a recent cyber attack on Lockheed Martin is growing among experts and agencies looking into the incident.

Daily deals site Groupon Inc filed for an initial public offering, hoping to capitalize on the biggest investor stampede into Web start-ups since the dotcom bubble burst a decade ago.

In this wealthy eastern Chinese city known for its shrewd merchants, the owner of a factory that makes spectacles faces a difficult task: closing his money-losing business and dismissing his workers.

Credit Suisse must pay hundreds of millions of dollars to a semiconductor manufacturer over failed auction-rate securities, though a U.S. appeals court on Thursday reduced an arbitrator's award against the bank by roughly $75 million.

Washington scrambled on Thursday to assess whether security had been compromised after Google Inc revealed a major hacker attack targeting U.S. officials that the Internet giant pegged to China.

The latest iPhone 5 rumor mill says AT&T will get 4G, while Verizon will not.

A recent deadly E.coli outbreak in Europe has already killed 18 people, 17 of them in Germany. The 17th German victim, an 81-year-old woman passed away in the early hours of Thursday morning from the enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) bacterium, a kidney specialist at the clinic in the northern city of Hamburg said.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) introduced a new symbol for healthy eating today and stopped using the food pyramid it first introduced in 1992. The 20-year-old food pyramid was the basis for nutritional guideline throughout the United States.

Online radio company Pandora Media Inc expects to raise 40 percent more than prior estimates in the initial public offering of its stock, as investor interest in Internet-stocks rebounds.

The Obama Administration and the USDA are ditching the Food Pyramid for MyPlate...what's behind the switch?

Toshiba Corp is the latest company to jump into the rapidly growing tablet market with a 10-inch device called Thrive, priced slightly lower than Apple Inc's dominant iPad 2.

Sony has allegedly been hacked again; this time Sony Pictures is the victim.

AT&T Inc will buy Convergys Corp's interests in two wireless operations in the Cincinnati, Ohio area for about $320 million in cash.

The number of Americans signing up for jobless benefits fell only slightly last week, doing little to calm growing fears of a pullback in the economy's recovery.

New York prosecutors have asked Goldman Sachs to explain its behavior in the run-up to the financial crisis, the latest investigation that has cast a pall over the reputation of the largest U.S. investment bank.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signed a $6.9 billion budget that will add certain city services and cut others, but ultimately avoid layoffs.

An alleged contract and emails that a New York man says entitle him to a huge stake in Facebook are forgeries, the online social network's founder Mark Zuckerberg said.

Online coupon company Groupon Inc filed for an initial public offering on Thursday, the latest in a series of social networking companies to tap the U.S. capital markets.

A hacker group has claimed it engineered yet another attack on Sony Corp computer networks.