IBT Staff Reporter

Boeing Co delivered 116 commercial airplanes in the fourth quarter, down from 122 a year earlier, the company said on Thursday.

Research firm comScore said online spending in the United States rose 12 percent to $32.6 billion for the entire November-December 2010 holiday shopping season, thanks to an exceptional Cyber Monday and the impact of free shipping.

There is yet another reason to walk or run now, other than for just being healthy. Tremont Electric, a U.S.-based company, announced a new device that will help charge gadgets by using power generated by walking or running.

Microsoft Corp sold more than 8 million of its Xbox Kinect motion-sensing game system in its first 60 days since launch, outpacing its target of 5 million and outshining Sony Corp's competing Move.

Is it a Stingray? No, it’s a Zoom – after keeping the industry guessing, Motorola has finally launched its highly anticipated tablet under the moniker Zoom and yes it runs on the next edition of Android specially crafted for tablets, the Honeycomb.

Starbucks Corp , the world's biggest coffee chain, unveiled a new logo on Wednesday that omits its name and the word coffee, infuriating loyal customers.

Wall Street was set up for a positive start on Thursday after an uptick in jobless claims failed to derail sentiment following surprisingly strong data on jobs creation in the last session.

Many top U.S. retailers missed Wall Street's expectations for December sales, hurt by a post-Christmas blizzard on the East Coast and shoppers returning to their cautious ways after flocking to stores after Thanksgiving.

Microsoft unveils new Surface 2.0, the thinner and better tabletop touch computer at CES. Is Touchscreen the new weapons of choice for tech rivals? Will Apple Inc retaliate?

Food prices will continue to haunt the world in 2011, even as the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization warned of 'food price shock' on Wednesday.

Survey suggests that a half or more of law school students feel inadequately prepared to handle the various non-academic demands of the profession

Total global revenue from tablet devices like Apple's iPad and Samsung's Galaxy Tab will increase from 16 billion dollars in 2010 to a whopping 46 billion dollars in 2014, according to a report released Wednesday by U.S. technology research firm Yankee Group.

S&P Equity Research predicts slower, but healthier growth in the technology sector in 2011, including notable developments regarding new products, international activity, and M&A deals.

Stock index futures rose on Thursday on upbeat sentiment after surprisingly strong data on jobs creation suggested the world's biggest economy was on a solid path to recovery.

Several top U.S. retailers missed Wall Street's high expectations for December sales as a paralyzing post-Christmas blizzard on the East Coast slowed what had been a two-month shopping spree.

Lionsgate Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. to offer UltraViolet Content in 2011

AT&T has increased the number of clients it has in the Greater China region by about 50 percent in the past year, a senior executive said on Thursday, and is now looking to target privately run Chinese companies.

Stock index futures rose on Thursday on upbeat sentiment after data on jobs creation that suggested the world's biggest economy was on a solid path to recovery.

Kallis' unbeaten 109 pinned the Indians back as South Africa finished day four of the final test with a lead of 339 runs,

Stock index futures indicated a slightly higher open for Wall Street on Thursday, the day after it reversed losses to close in positive territory following data on jobs creation that suggested the world's biggest economy was recovering strongly.

Shares in BP Plc and Transocean shrugged off a scathing report from U.S. Presidential panel which blamed the United States' worst ever oil spill on risky decisions the companies made.

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang has said his country is willing to buy about 6 billion euros ($7.9 billion) of Spain's public debt, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported on Thursday, citing government sources.

Steve Ballmer gives a keynote address at the CES going over Xbox, Windows PC and Windows Phone 7 capabilities.

Commercial lender CapitalSource Inc has hired a financial advisor to explore a potential sale of the company, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

LOS ANGELES - The trial date in the defamation case against Courtney Love over her outrageous Twitter postings has been postponed three weeks.

Developed market stocks climbed on Thursday on hopes for renewed U.S. economic growth, although the dollar and emerging markets steadied, unwilling to push a rally further ahead of more data on Friday.

Taiwan's HTC Corp <2498.TW>, the world's No.4 smartphone brand, said fourth-quarter net profit more than doubled after consumers lapped up smartphones running on Google Inc's Android operating system.

Research in Motion showed off the capabilities of its new tablet device, and called corporate interest in the device massive.

The Nikkei rallied on Thursday as investors snapped up shares of Japanese exporters after the dollar hit two-week highs against the yen, but markets elsewhere in Asia were more subdued ahead of the influential U.S. non-farm payrolls report.