IBT Staff Reporter

Online coupon service Groupon and online travel agency Expedia Inc have created a website to offer people travel deals and to let travel suppliers expose their brands to shoppers.

The statistics suggest Curtis Granderson of the New York Yankees could certainly go on to win the MVP award for the American League this year, but the statistics also reveal surprises about MVP selection.

There is a tornado watch in effect in Boston on Wednesday evening with reports of a tornado touchdown in western Massachusetts.

Wall Street ended a four-day rally with its worst session since August on Wednesday and could suffer more losses in coming days as investors faced more signs the economic recovery is fading.

U.S. companies hired far fewer workers than expected in May and output in the manufacturing sector slowed to its lowest level since 2009, adding to concerns that the U.S. recovery is running out of steam.

The Supreme Court is considering the fate of litigation against cell phone makers over safety risks, just as the industry comes under more scrutiny in the wake of a health report from the World Health Organization.

In addition to being one of his generation's best basketball players, Shaq also had a career in the entertainment industry.

Google announced it has discovered a phishing scam based in China, looking to uncover email passwords of important government officials.

The hacking of a Sony Corp customer database this spring has attracted class-action lawyers and consumers eager to cash in on the high-profile privacy breach.

Lee Anthony, the brother of accused killer Casey Anthony testified on Tuesday that he smelled a potent and very strong odor in Casey's Pontiac Sunfire at the garage in their home.

In the company's official 'Googleblog', tech giant Google informed that a campaign to hack users' password in order to monitor the content of users' email was averted thanks to 'the strength of our cloud-based security and abuse detection systems.

More than 80 percent of the companies that advertise on Twitter renew their marketing efforts on the microblogging service, the company's chief executive said on Wednesday.

New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner repeatedly denied Wednesday sending a lewd photo on Twitter to a 21-year-old woman last week. Regarding the object in the picture though, Weiner is not sure whether it's his own body or not.

The infamous octomom's doctor who transferred 12 embryos resulting in the conception of eight babies, despite the health risks involved, will lose his medical license next month.

Film studio Miramax and Internet video company Hulu signed a multi-year agreement to bring films made by the studio to some Hulu subscribers.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 had their worst day of the year Wednesday, as the stock market was hit from multiple sides with troubling economic reports.

Today there were rumors that Microsoft was preparing to purchase the Finnish company for $19 billion, but Nokia denied them. Nokia struck a deal with Microsoft in February

NYSE Euronext's bid for European clearinghouse LCH.Clearnet would give Markit a majority stake and control of the lucrative over-the-counter swaps business, a source familiar with the plan said on Wednesday.

Sprint Nextel Corp is close to completing a $2 billion-a-year network sharing agreement with hedge fund billionaire Phil Falcone's LightSquared telecommunications venture, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

UBS AG's global co-head of M&A, Cary Kochman, is among four senior bankers to leave the Swiss bank on Wednesday, dealing yet another blow to a firm grappling with an exodus of dealmakers.

According to Google, there has been a campaign to hack Gmail users' passwords in order to monitor their email accounts.

High unemployment is not a quickly resolvable problem, but April's job gains show the economic recovery is on a firmer footing, a top Federal Reserve policymaker said on Wednesday.

Twitter has just introduced a new button that allows publisher to easily embed it on their website. This enables visitors to subscribe to their Twitter accounts more easily.

US Magazine is reporting that pop star Justin Timberlake and actress Ashley Olsen are dating.

Italian carmaker Fiat SpA will invest $1.1 billion and build 120,000 cars a year in Russia to take advantage of state investment incentives and a recovering car industry, Russia's Economy Ministry said.

Could a deal between Microsoft and Nokia be in the works.

Actor Patrick Dempsey told Italian Vanity Fair that he plans to check out of Seattle Grace hospital and that Grey's Anatomy upcoming eighth season is gonna be my last.

Investors dumped Nokia shares again on Wednesday, taking them to their lowest in more than 13 years after a profit warning a day earlier raised fears the handset maker may never regain its shrinking market share.

President Barack Obama visited tornado-struck Joplin, Missouri on Sunday, May 29. Here are photos of President Obama interacting with Joplin residents.