IBT Staff Reporter

The San Francisco Giants swept the Arizona Diamondbacks on Thursday with a 3-2 victory, earning their sixth straight win, and taking sole possession of first place in the National League West.

Nvidia Corp forecast quarterly revenue above expectations, lifted by sales of its mobile chips as it fights off growing competition in the personal computer graphics chip market.

The White House on Thursday pressed Congress to pass strong cybersecurity measures to protect consumers' personal information and safeguard the nation's financial system and electric power grid from potentially devastating attacks.

John Demjanjuk has been convicted of helping Nazi in massacring 28,000 Jews at Sobibor camp during Holocaust, to five years in prison by a German court on Thursday.

A former WikiLeaks spokesman has condemned Julian Assange for demanding workers for the website sign confidentiality agreements threatening penalties of up to 12 million British pounds ($19.5 million).

Prosecutors are seeking about $1 billion to resolve a long-standing probe into Johnson & Johnson's marketing of its Risperdal anti-psychotic medicine, the Wall Street Journal said on Thursday, citing sources familiar with the matter.

To the producers of the film Too Big To Fail, the story plays like a horror movie.

Nvidia posted better-than-expected first-quarter revenue of $962 million, down 3.97 percent as it faces pressure in the personal computer graphics chip market and races to build its mobile business.

Nvidia posted better-than-expected first-quarter revenue of $962 million, down 3.97 percent as it faces pressure in the personal computer graphics chip market and races to build its mobile business.

Defensive shares led a rebound in stocks on Thursday as investors weighed mixed economic signals and recent volatility in commodities as they searched for direction.

When Raj Rajaratnam is sentenced on July 29, he could join a small club of fallen financiers and executives who've spent years behind bars.

Dow Chemical Co shareholders overwhelmingly approved a $21.3 million pay package for Chief Executive Andrew Liveris at the annual meeting on Thursday.

Newlywed royal couple William and Kate are currently spending intimate moments in the Seychelles, a string of 115 islands in the west of the Indian Ocean, northeast of Madagascar and about 1000 miles off the east coast of Kenya, according to the British media. Of the 115 islands, only 30 of them are inhabited.

Japanese telecom company NTT DoCoMo Inc and U.S. social networking service provider Twitter Inc will jointly develop a location-based alerting service for smartphone users based on tweets, the Nikkei business daily said.

Mitt Romney said he would respect each state's rights if elected President, defending the Massachusetts healthcare law he supported as governor while blasting the Obama Administration's power grab to require all states to adopt the health same policy, vowing to repeal the federal government's 2010 healthcare overhaul.

Upscale retailer Nordstrom Inc cut its full-year earnings forecast due to the dilutive effect of its HauteLook acquisition, sending shares down 1.7 percent.

Zynga teams up with Lady Gaga for a new neighborhood in Farmville

Oil rose slightly in volatile trading on Thursday, rebounding from a 5 percent plunge in the previous session as a weaker dollar prompted investors to buy riskier assets.

Defensive shares led a rebound in stocks on Thursday as investors weighed mixed economic signals and recent volatility in commodities in search of direction.

Raj Rajaratnam could face huge criminal fines and penalties as part of his insider trading conviction, but the hedge fund founder could remain a rich man even if he is sent to prison for a long time.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc shares were down 3.2 percent on Thursday afternoon after two analysts downgraded the stock and press reports questioned whether a Senate investigation will threaten the bank's reputation.

Part of the FiveMYles Space Program and The American Laboratory, Stand (*an autumn play) is an experiential artistic event unfolding the story of two young lovers lost in time.

Microsoft's $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype is likely to boost videoconferencing from workers' desktops, posing further risks to video technology providers like Polycom and Logitech.

NASA scientists discover new information indicating Jupiter's moon Io has a volcanic sub-surface.

Take a look at Kate over the years.

The White House issued a proposal on Thursday to secure critical U.S. infrastructure and federal computer networks that aims to fend off attackers while assuring the privacy of Internet users.

Hedge fund managers may feel invincible in private, but in public some are talking about what will happen to their firms after they are gone.

Microsoft was a giant fending off tiny rivals in 1998 when the U.S. Justice Department accused it of breaking antitrust law.

The Cannes Film Festival started with a big bang. First, Lady Gaga, surprised the crowd and she kicked off the festival with a performance of her latest single, Judas. The night also kicked off with Woody Allen's highly anticipated new flick, Midnight in Paris.