IBT Staff Reporter

EU finance ministers Saturday urged Portugal to commit to structural reform and defended the region's austerity steps, as thousands of European workers gathered in Budapest to protest against spending cuts.

In the wake of the attacks by the hacker collective Anonymous on Sony and on Livejournal, more attention has been focused on just what such attacks mean and how to defend against them.

The domain registrar and web hosting firm is estimated to have won over 20000 GoDaddy customers in the aftermath of the PR crisis brought about by the viral video of the latter's CEO killing an endangered African species.

The decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict re-emerged in Gaza as Israel continues its retaliatary strikes against a Palestinian rocket attack on a school bus a day earlier.

President Barack Obama and congressional leaders struck a last-minute budget deal on Friday to narrowly avert a government shutdown that would have hit the economy and idled hundreds of thousands of workers.

Priced lower than any tablet in the current market, Acer Iconia A500 is a direct hit for Xoom and iPad 2. Xoom had the advantage of being the first tablet running on Honeycomb, the latest android version.

The uprising in Syira took a a deadly turn on Friday, with several casualties being reported from protesters' camp as well as the government.

Once again flaunting his athletic side, Justin Bieber trained with FC Barcelona on April 8.

Creating shortage looks like a successful marketing strategy for Apple. Best Buy turned away iPad 2 customers because of inventory supply shortage.

Users of iPad2 with Wi-Fi+ 3G, Verizon network have been facing problems in connecting to 3G network. The users were posting their complaints on Apple Discussions.

President Barack Obama and congressional leaders struck a last-minute budget deal on Friday, narrowly averting a government shutdown that would have idled hundreds of thousands of federal workers.

President Barack Obama and congressional leaders reached a last-minute budget deal on Friday, averting a government shutdown that would have idled hundreds of thousands of federal workers.

U.S. market regulators on Friday sued the former chief financial officer of a multibillion-dollar hedge fund founded by Daniel Zwirn, accusing him of improperly transferring $870 million between the fund's accounts.

A New York state judge left intact most of a lawsuit brought by U.S. billionaire Len Blavatnik accusing JPMorgan Chase of mismanaging an investment account.

Democratic and Republican leaders traded blame on Friday in a budget impasse that threatened to shut down the government within hours and idle hundreds of thousands of federal workers.

The Justice Department approved Google Inc's purchase of ITA Software with stiff conditions on Friday, and left the door open to a larger probe into whether Google manipulates search results to hurt rivals.

Google Inc CEO Larry Page streamlined decision-making in six key product groups, including social networking and mobile, as the Internet search giant revs up efforts to compete with Facebook and Apple Inc.

After Expedia Inc completes its announced plan to split into two public companies this year, the spun-off TripAdvisor will likely find more favor on Wall Street than its former parent.

President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner spoke for several minutes without reaching a resolution early Friday evening, a Republican aide said extending a day of delay on averting a federal shutdown by midnight.

Democratic and Republican leaders traded blame on Friday in a budget impasse that threatened to shut down the government within hours and idle hundreds of thousands of federal workers.

The Office of the U.S. Trustee objected to a proposal by Borders Group Inc to pay over $8 million in bonuses to high-level employees this early in its bankruptcy proceeding.

The House of Representatives voted on Friday to reject Internet neutrality rules that were adopted last year to keep big Internet service providers from blocking certain traffic

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Investors will look to corporate profits and outlooks next week for confirmation the S&P 500 has another leg to its rally as the earnings season gets under way.

Investors will look to corporate profits and outlooks next week for confirmation the S&P 500 has another leg to its rally as the earnings season gets under way.

Trash could pile up in the streets of the capital, the Statue of Liberty will close and astronauts will stay home if the Congress fails to reach a budget deal and the government shuts down.

Investors looking for loan growth and surging revenues at the biggest U.S. banks, including Citigroup Inc are likely to be disappointed by first-quarter earnings.

U.S. BUDGET CRISISDemocrats and Republicans will have to deal with the fallout from the past week's bitter partisan budget brinkmanship, regardless of whether it drives the federal government to shut down. We will assess who lost most from the crisis, with a Reuters/IPSOS poll on Tuesday. We will also feature an in-depth look at the performance of Republican House Speaker John Boehner, who had to...

U.S. stocks fell late on Friday as a spike in oil prices revived worries that inflation would derail the recovery, jolting a market that had been treading water ahead of corporate earnings.