IBT Staff Reporter

For decades, men and women have decreed that when it comes to sex, It's not the size of the boat but the motion of the ocean.

New analysis from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows how family life is changing in Australia and how pushed many working parents are time, according to a leading work-life expert.

G20 Tackles Bank Pay; Policy Needs Not Obvious; Citi Shrinks

EBay Inc Chief Executive John Donahoe said on Wednesday that recent lawsuits will not derail a $1.9 billion deal to sell a majority interest in Web telephone unit Skype to an investor group.

Hewlett-Packard Co predicted that overall IT spending would bounce back next year, but set a fiscal 2010 revenue forecast that came in just below Wall Street's expectations.

The U.S. Federal Reserve may have to raise interest rates from their currently ultra-low setting near zero before the need to take action becomes obvious, Fed Board Governor Kevin Warsh said on Thursday.

The U.S. Federal Reserve may have to raise interest rates from their currently ultra-low setting near zero percent before the need to take action is obvious, Fed Board Governor Kevin Warsh said on Thursday.

Shares of Julius Baer Holding AG's U.S. asset management arm Artio Global Investors Inc finished their first day of trade up 4.8 percent after the company's initial public offering raised more money than expected.

World leaders at the G20 meeting on Thursday closed in on a statement urging new restraints on bankers' pay, a flashpoint for outrage in the global financial crisis.

A judge delayed a hearing on a $125 million deal that would allow Google Inc to create a massive digital library.

The U.N. Security Council, at a summit chaired by U.S. President Barack Obama, unanimously approved a resolution on Thursday that envisaged a world without nuclear weapons.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a wide lead in the November mayoral election campaign after his main rival officially entered the race, according to a poll published on Thursday.

Hewlett-Packard Co predicted that overall IT spending would bounce back next year, but set a fiscal 2010 revenue forecast that came in just below Wall Street's expectations.

A top executive at France's biggest telecommunications company, which is dealing with a spate of suicides, warned that the barrage of emails from smartphones and personal computers was stressing out employees.

Paul Kirk, a former Democratic National Committee chairman and a close friend of the late Senator Edward Kennedy, was named on Thursday as a temporary replacement for the liberal champion in the U.S. Senate.

The U.S. financial system remains fragile a year after launching a $700 billion bailout fund and the government may need to extend the program into next year, a senior U.S. Treasury department official said on Thursday.

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc and its unsecured creditors asked a bankruptcy judge on Thursday to unseal court documents related to an investigation of the sale of Lehman's core U.S. assets to Barclays PLC .

A top executive at France's biggest telecommunications company, which is dealing with a spate of suicides, warned that the barrage of emails from smartphones and personal computers was stressing out employees.

The United States has moved away from the financial brink and is heading toward economic recovery, a senior Treasury official said on Thursday.

President Barack Obama arrived at the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh on Thursday with an ambitious agenda to crack down on banks' risky behavior and rebuild the global economy on a more stable footing.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion said on Thursday its profit dropped and gave an outlook that fell short of analyst forecasts heading into the holiday shopping season, sending its shares down almost 10 percent.

Citigroup Inc's U.S. retail banking business plans to focus its marketing efforts on six cities, a source familiar with the matter said, but the bank's chief executive said he does not plan to dramatically shrink its branch network.

World leaders at the G20 meeting here on Thursday were closing in on a statement calling for new restraints on banker pay, but would not endorse specific monetary caps, a deal-breaker for the United States.

Finland's Nokia is in the midst of a legal battle over use of its services brand Ovi in Brazil, the largest telecoms market in Latin America.

Twitter is close to securing as much as $100 million of new capital from mutual fund giant T. Rowe Price, private equity firm Insight Venture Partners and five other investors, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Twitter is close to securing as much as $100 million of new capital from mutual fund giant T. Rowe Price, private equity firm Insight Venture Partners and five other investors, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Yesterday's Australian New Home Sales data added support to the Aussie dollar during local trade with the 11.4% rise catching most analysts by surprise. The local unit appeared destined to test the psychological 88 cent barrier in early European trade however resistance between 0.8760 and 0.8780 capped any further advances for the fifth time in a week. In a stark reminder of the vulnerability of the Aussie dollar to a return to broad risk aversion North American equity markets fell around 1% fol...

Microsoft Corp has no plans to acquire Electronic Arts, a Microsoft executive said, shooting down unsubstantiated talk of a potential bid that triggered a spike in the video game publisher's shares.

Hewlett Packard Co has forecast that 2010 revenue will be up just 3 percent from 2009 and slightly below Wall Street expectations, despite hope corporate spending on hardware would bounce back.