IBT Staff Reporter

The maker of Farmville creates its first combat game, Empires & Allies.

The House of Representatives on Tuesday defeated a bill to raise the debt limit in a vote staged by Republicans to strengthen their push for deep spending cuts in negotiations with the White House.

Twitter has acquired the team behind a small Internet company whose tools helped manage advertising campaigns on Google Inc, stepping up the microblogging site's effort to generate revenue.

Despite the yearlong concerns over his health, Steve Jobs will be headlining WWDC once again.

It's official: Mike Brown is the next Los Angeles Lakers coach.

Yahoo Inc has resolved a dispute with Alibaba Group over the Chinese company's transfer of its online payment system, Alipay, to Chief Executive Jack Ma, two sources close to the matter said.

A double-dip in home prices, pessimistic consumers and a slowdown in regional manufacturing raised concerns on Tuesday that the economy's soft patch could become protracted.

The CTIA disputes WHO's report, saying it used data with limited evidence.

After weeks of dithering, Apple has finally released a security update to remove Mac Defender malware and other known variants.

Sprint Nextel has formally asked U.S. regulators to block AT&T Inc's proposed $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile USA, saying the deal has no public interest benefit and would harm competition even if it comes with conditions.

Injured catcher Buster Posey of the San Francisco Giants leads in the first ballot of the upcoming MLB All-Star game in Arizona on July 12. Posey, the reigning NL Rookie of the Year was having a superb year before being injured on a collision at home plate against the Florida Marlins last year.

Higher car prices and a shortage of fuel-efficient vehicles likely threw a roadblock in the U.S. auto industry's recovery path in May, when the Japan crisis had its biggest impact on U.S. sales so far.

Using a mobile phone might increase the risk of developing certain types of brain tumors and consumers should consider ways of reducing their exposure, World Health Organization cancer experts said on Tuesday.

Viadeo, the world's second-biggest online networking site for professionals behind LinkedIn, plans to double its users in Africa within a year, its chief operating officer for the continent said on Tuesday.

A U.S. judge approved a class action settlement over Google's Buzz social network, and awarded $500,000 to an Internet privacy group that had previously been left out of the proposed deal.

BigGovernment.com questioning published accounts by Rep. Anthony Weiner about his activity on Twitter when a lewd photo from his account was sent publicly to one of the people following his postings.

Wealthy U.S. individuals have already pulled most of their money from Swiss private banks and could exit altogether as a global clampdown on tax evasion and banking secrecy benefits onshore rivals, a report showed.

A real-life jetpack passed a key milestone this month by flying nearly a mile-high and soaring back to earth safely with an emergency parachute.

Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs leaps back into the spotlight next week to showcase the iPad maker's latest software and is widely expected to unveil an online music storage and streaming service.

The company says it can no longer give full-year estimates based on lowered net sales from its devices and services.

There has always been a debate about whether or not mobile phone usage causes cancer. Finally, international experts have the answer, which is we think so.

Wall Street bulls took the upper hand with a 1 percent rally on Tuesday as hopes for a new plan to deal with Greece's debt crisis relieved some investor worry, but grim economic data suggested more hurdles ahead as the S&P 500 closed out its worst month since August.

My Morning Jacket will debut Circuital tonight at 9pm ET live on youtube.

Sony Corp and Sony Computer Entertainment announced today that it will fully restore all the PlayStation Network Services in Americas, Europe/PAL territories by end of this week.

Ex-followers of Harold Camping, the doomsday preacher who falsely predicted that May 21 would be the beginning of the end-of-the-world, are reacting with anger and voicing it on the air.

Three trillion dollars is a lot of cash to hoard up in barely 10 years. It's a lot of cash to unleash on the world's commodity markets, too. And peak oil or not, we monetary maniacs might just have a point. Real returns to cash do matter.

Ex-followers of Harold Camping, the doomsday preacher who falsely predicted that May 21 would be the beginning of the end-of-the-world, are reacting with anger and voicing it on the air.

Gasoline fell to its lowest level in seven weeks and diesel fuel dropped below $4 a gallon for the first time in two months, the Energy Department said on Tuesday.

After this year's sold out festival, Coachella expands the festival to two weekends in order to accommodate more people.