IBT Staff Reporter

McDonalds Corp, in contrast with struggling competitors and the overall retail market, plans to expand greatly in 2009 in Europe, a senior executive said on Friday.

Intel Corp. announced Friday that Craig Barrett intends to retire as non-executive chairman in May after serving the company for 35 years and helping it become the world's largest chip maker.

Mickey Rourke said, Change has been hard for me, despite the movie The Wrestler resurrected his career and earned him a Golden Globe award and an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of an aging, bad-boy wrestler.

Saturday morning, January 24, at the age of 66 - Kay Yow died at WakeMed Cary Hospital after being admitted there last week, according to the University spokeswoman Annabelle Myers.

Toyota Motor Corp, now the biggest automaker in the world, may cut its vehicle production in Japan about 60 percent in the month of April due to slumping demand for cars, reported Reuters quoting the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper.

We're very big fans of cruising – but only on the most luxurious ships: Silversea, Regent, Oceania, Seabourn, SeaDream Crystal and Windstar

Today, Hundreds of football fans flock to the NFL Experience, the league's interactive gaming park outside of Raymond James Stadium at Tampa, Florida.

Verizon Wireless' touch-screen VoIP phone that can receive text messages and use Web-based widgets is coming.

Three people have been detained by police in the Bahamas as suspects of an extortion plot against John Travolta.

On Saturday tens of thousands of children picked up their school bag once again and headed for school.

A report says that Asia and Latin America's Computer networks are the most hit by a fast-spreading computer virus.

On Saturday a suicide car-bomb attack near an African Union peacekeepers' base killed 14 people in the Somali capital.

Today it’s easy to find, all T-Mobile Retail and eligible Retail Partner locations nationwide offer the T-Mobile G1 - based on Google's Android OS. Because of rush of demand, T-Mobile wants to make this smartphone more widely available whether you live in a 3G market or not.

Today, Saturday, Macintosh is celebrating its silver anniversary, Apple Macintosh turns 25.

Miss world Finalist Mariana Bridi da Costa whose feet and hands were amputated due to an infection has died Saturday after struggling for weeks against the illness.

The company's nearly 30-year-old Flight Simulator series Game Studio has come to an end Microsoft said.

Friday, Herman Edwards the head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs was fired after three seasons.

On Friday, Pope Benedict XVI marked 43rdWorld Communications Day by launching the Vatican YouTube channel with a theme New Technologies, New Relationships: Promoting a Culture of Respect, Dialogue and Friendship.

According to HealthDay News, new studies show that three conditions often linked to obesity have also been tied independently to sleep apnea.

If last year's tax rebates are any indication, one-time payments from the government are a weak economic stimulus, say economists at the University of Michigan.

One thing you can probably get 99% of economists to agree on is that a global trade war in the middle of a global recession is a bad idea. If every country increases import tariffs, hoping to protect its domestic industry from foreign competition, global trade will fall in all directions, hurting everybody. Put another way, increased tariffs are a negative-sum game.

With economic indicators pointing to a lingering recession and many businesses in regroup mode, it seems that building and adding to talent would be the last thing on the minds of managers and corporate executives, but that can be a mistake.

Look for countries with strong middle-class growth -- say, China or Brazil. Stick mainly to housing and retail. Focus on the long term. And don't attempt to do it without a local partner.

Alums discuss the latest in ‘customer-centric innovation’ at Kellogg Centennial conference in Miami. Practitioners joined academics during a two-day event at Miami’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel, where they explored strategies to enhance “customer-centric innovation.” The conversation turned repeatedly to the ways technology can enable collaboration and harness consumer insights — and lead to busines...

Quietly and with little fanfare, the ownership of hundreds of public companies in the United States has moved from being dispersed among many players to being concentrated in the hands of a just a few. But it's not big banks that are dominating corporate ownership, as in the past. Instead it's mutual funds that hold almost 30 percent of U.S. corporate ownership today, compared with 8 percent in ...

Investment adviser's scam exposes Security and Exchange Commission's shortfalls and could worsen the financial crisis, says Ross professor. Bernard Madoff, once a respected investment adviser, may have perpetrated one of the biggest financial scams in history. Federal authorities are now trying to sort out what amounts to an enormous Ponzi scheme after Madoff admitted wrongdoing to employees of ...

The new famous computer virus called Conficker also known Downadup and Kido is the most severe outbreak in years infecting millions of Pc's worldwide.

American Idol champs David Cook announced a U.S. tour on Friday hitting out the colleges starting February 13.

The 40ers will interview the legendary head coach Dan Reeves, who took a team to the Super Bowl four times for their vacant offensive coordinator today, according to FOXSports.com.