IBT Staff Reporter

Toyota Motor Corp told its U.S. dealers this week that the company had 45 days of inventory and was working hard to get the word out that it was open for business.

With time approaching Harold Camping's May 21st predicted time of when the world should end (a.k.a Dooms or Rapture day), we can't help but think about what will happen to many of his followers who have surprised us and perhaps caused confused looks among us as we learned how they have been emptying their pockets, some to the very last cent, for this occasion.

Retailer Sears Holdings Corp said its chief financial officer, Michael Collins, has resigned to pursue another opportunity.

Fitch cut Greece's credit rating by three notches on Friday, pushing the country deeper into junk territory, and warned that any kind of debt restructuring would amount to default.

Mobile service providers are reworking charges for wireless connections on tablet computers to lure in customers put off by costly fees.

Cable TV pioneer John Malone likes a bargain, and his $17 a share bid for Barnes & Noble Inc is already being slammed for undervaluing the largest U.S. bookstore chain.

No joke. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted a blog post with a list of recommendations on how to survive a massive invasion of the flesh-eating zombie.

Apple Inc said on Friday it was working with Foxconn, its main contract producer for gadgets, to understand the cause of an explosion at a factory in China that local media have linked to the technology giant's iPad 2 production.

The Warriors are nowhere near the playoffs, but co-owner Joe Lacob is feeling the heat. He understands perfectly well that his next decision may determine his legacy as the Warriors owner. That decision is the hiring of the next Warriors coach.

Foxconn Technology Group, the main manufacturing contractor for Apple’s iPad 2 and iPhone 4, witnessed a large explosion in its Chengdu plant on May 20 7 p.m. local time, killing 2 and injuring at least 16, and possibly delaying the already-scarce iPad supply.

Apple Inc is close to launching an online music storage and streaming service after reaching deals with three of the four major labels and is expected to wrap up the fourth in a few days, according to several people familiar the plans.

The International Monetary Fund on Friday approved a 26 billion euro ($37 billion) loan for Portugal and said it would immediately disburse 6.1 billion euros of the money to the euro zone member country to ease investor concerns over its debts.

There seems to be a broad-based strengthening in the labor market with the growth of payrolls in 42 U.S. states and a decline in unemployment rate in 39 states in April.

If not on May 21, when will the world end? Here is the next candidate in line! You aren't convinced? Come up with another one then.

LivingSocial and Foursquare are both fighting for local ad dollars from mom and pop stores, neighborhood restaurants, and even big box retailers as online social media companies set their sights on a largely untapped pool of revenue.

Oscar-winner French actress Marion Cotillard and actor-director Guillaume Canet have welcomed their first child, a boy named Marcel.

Apple is preparing to launch its cloud music service, which allows users to listen to songs from an Internet connection.

BP struck a key victory in its battle to share the cost of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill when partner Mitsui & Co agreed on Friday to pay $1.1 billion toward the clean-up bill and possibly billions more in fines.

Basketball Hall of Famer Jerry West officially joined the Warriors as an executive board member on Friday. Co-owner Joe Lacob hired West in order to serve in a wide-range of positions to help develop the team.

Here are 5 classic doomsday movies to watch on May 21.

Harold Camping, the broadcaster and author, who has predicted that May 21, 2011 is Judgment Day when God will take the 'true believers' to heaven and inflict a series of major natural disasters on the world, published a book fully explaining his views over three years ago.

Shares of clothes retailers Gap Inc and Aeropostale Inc fell on Friday, a day after the companies said higher input costs and discounts would hurt profitability.

A large explosion rocked a Foxconn factory in southwestern China that local media have linked to Apple iPad 2 production, killing at least two people, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Harold Camping, the self-proclaimed Doomsday prophet who predicted that on May 21, 2011 200 million people will Rapture and the rest will perish in a series of cataclysmic events, including violent earthquakes, till October 21, 2011, is being branded as a false prophet by eminent Christian leaders.

Some investors are betting Research in Motion's stock is in for more pain, even after a rough three years.

Rare color photos from the Great Depression and World War II that may give you a glimpse of the taste of what it was like in the 30s and 40s- decades that were normally known and seen only in black-and-white pictures.

Sony Corp has been hacked again, exposing more security issues for the company less than a month after intruders stole personal information from more than 100 million online user accounts.

Sony has been hacked again, this time it's not PSN, but So-net, an internet service provider subsidiary.

Rare color photos from the Great Depression and World War II that may give you a glimpse of the taste of what it was like in the 30s and 40s- decades that were normally known and seen only in black-and-white.