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Google Inc has spoken to at least two private equity firms about possibly helping them finance a deal to buy Yahoo Inc's core business, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing a person familiar with the matter.

Google Inc. has reached out to two unnamed private equity firms to potentially assist them in financing a transaction to acquire Yahoo! Inc., according to a report in The Wall Street Journal Saturday.

Number crunchers have come up with an unexpected conclusion about the National Basketball Association's decision to cut short its season: There may actually be a few economic winners.

Goofball, visionary, opportunist, maverick: Andrew Mason invites all manner of description but the one thing all agree on is that the Groupon CEO is one shrewd customer.

Mary Blair, a Disney artist who has left her colorful stamp on 1950s

The Heart Attack Grill opened up its doors in Las Vegas, Nevada this week with menu items like the Quadruple Bypass Burger, Fries (cooked in pure lard) and Butterfat Milkshakes.

An evangelical broadcaster whose end-of-the-world prophecy earlier this year stirred a global media frenzy has vanished from the public eye and airwaves ahead of his recalibrated doomsday date, set for Friday.

The New York Times Co said the number of subscribers to its flagship digital products increased in the third quarter while overall advertising revenue at the company slid sharply.

The New York Times Company on Thursday announced a third-quarter profit of $15.7 million, buoyed by 324,000 paid subscriptions to its Web site. The online gains offset an 8.8 percent drop in ad revenue.

Microblogging service Twitter is looking for a director to bolster its board's business credentials and diversity, and candidates include a former Google Inc executive, a person familiar with the matter said.

One in ten Americans takes antidepressants, according to a federal study published Wednesday, a rate that has skyrocketed in the last two decades.

Orbitz was fined $60,000 by the Department of Transportation for using deceptive pricing in advertising.

Take This Lollipop is a new site that allows user to live out their worst nightmares by providing information via Facebook.

The Web 2.0 Summit began on Oct. 17 in San Francisco, CA. It is a meeting of the minds of some of the biggest, most successful technology companies in this day and age.

AMC's The Walking Dead season premiere netted 11 million viewers in total, despite the abrupt departure of creator Frank Darabont this summer. Robert Kirkman, Walking Dead comics creator and a supervisor for the show, has also teased some spoilers for season 2, which will be better (and more conflicted) than the first.

The American Association of Retired Person (AARP) is not politically subtle regarding its latest t.v. advertising campaign -- it says, in so many words -- Congressman or Congresswoman: if you cut benefits from Social Security or Medicare -- you'll be voted out of public office.

Welcome to McDonald's, would you like some TV with that?

The Walking Dead of the Day are zombies. We ask several experts why.

Gannett announced a small decline in third-quarter earnings Monday, mostly due to declines in print advertising.

Suicide rates are skyrocketing in a country already beset by massive job cuts, austerity spending, slashed pensions, and soaring taxes.

Lady Gaga won an injunction at London's High Court on Monday to stop Lady Goo Goo, an animated character from releasing a single.