IBT Staff Reporter

Barrick Gold Corp has agreed to pay C$7.3 billion ($7.68 billion) for Equinox Minerals , pitting the world's largest gold miner against a unit of China's top metals trader in a battle for increasingly scarce copper assets.

The Ford Motor Co will idle plants in Taiwan, China and South Africa beginning this week due to the shortage of parts from Japan after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, the company said on Monday.

Nasdaq OMX Group and IntercontinentalExchange warned NYSE Euronext investors to be highly skeptical of the additional cost savings that the NYSE says will result from its friendly merger with Deutsche Bourse.

Star QB Michael Vick speaks out against a dog-fighting app available on the Android OS.

According to an inventory page published by 9to5Mac, the white iPhone could reach store shelves as early as April 27th.

Apple is facing a class action suit over the location data that security researchers recently publicized.

In the lightest volume session of the year, U.S. stocks fell on Monday after a lowered outlook from Kimberly-Clark increased concerns about higher commodity costs squeezing profits in coming quarters.

Cameron Reilly posted offensive items on his Facebook page, some of which were directed at Kate Middleton.

Silver surged as much as 8 percent on Monday before pulling back sharply when a failure to pierce the all time high from 1980 unleashed a wave of technical selling amid record volume in U.S. futures.

In May 2008, a blog post caught computer maker Dell Inc by surprise: popular tech blog Gizmodo had broken news about Dell's Inspiron 910 mini-notebook -- months ahead of its launch -- after seeing CEO Michael Dell toting the notebook at an industry conference.

Sales of new U.S. homes rose in March and the number of new properties on the market was its lowest since the 1960s, but further gains will be hampered by the broader property glut.

Oil prices fell on Monday after U.S. crude hit its highest level since September 2008, as investors took profits on a sell off in silver from near record highs.

Norio Ohga, inventor of the compact disc and one of the driving forces behind Sony during the 1980s and 1990s, recently passed away.

Here is a list of some of the guests invited to the Royal Wedding.

Kleenex tissue maker Kimberly-Clark Corp posted a steeper-than-expected drop in quarterly profit on Monday and cut the low end of its full-year forecast as costs of pulp and other goods are rising more than twice as much as it anticipated.

A group of banks including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley has filed a plan to restructure Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc that would let the failed bank's different parts remain separate.

U.S. stocks slipped on Monday on concerns over higher commodity costs denting corporate profits, highlighted by a lowered outlook from consumer products company Kimberly-Clark.

Barrick Gold Corp has agreed to buy Equinox Minerals for about C$7.3 billion ($7.68 billion), topping a bid from China's Minmetals Resources <1208.HK> in a big bet on soaring copper demand.

Speaking to Computer World, a Sony Spokesman confirmed that the Japanese company is still unsure of the scope of the attack that took down the PlayStation Network.

Yahoo Inc said on Monday it has bought IntoNow, a start-up that enables users to identify and share television programs with their friends, in its continuing drive to boost its social media credentials.

American Express Co , which is trying to move beyond its traditional credit card lending business, is hoping MasterCard Inc's head of prepaid debit products can help expand its offerings.

Simon Cowell is working hard to finalize all the details of his upcoming show The X Factor.

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will attend the final launch of the space shuttle Endeavour, of which her husband is commander.

Barnes & Noble on Monday introduced new features to its Nook Color e-reader designed to make the device more competitive with Apple's iPad and to offer more functions that Amazon.com's Kindle does not.

The fate of hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam was in the hands of a jury on Monday in the biggest Wall Street insider trading trial in decades, a case that featured FBI phone taps and former friends who testified against him.

Barrick Gold Corp has agreed to buy Equinox Minerals for about C$7.3 billion ($7.68 billion), topping a bid from China's Minmetals Resources <1208.HK> in a big bet on soaring copper demand.

Johnson Controls Inc , one of the world's largest auto suppliers, said a drop in auto production following last month's earthquake in Japan would cut earnings and revenue in its fiscal third quarter.

Oil rose above $124 a barrel on Monday, pushed higher by an escalation of violence in the oil-producing Middle East and post-election unrest in OPEC member Nigeria.

Testimony unveiled on Sunday in documents released by Wikileaks from prisoners of the United States in Guantanamo, Cuba is not reliable because they were subjected to torture or other forms of coercion, or include false statements by other prisoners, an expert on the matter says.