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Yahoo Inc hopes to get up to $500 million for a unit that hosts websites for small companies, after putting it on the market for several months, two people familiar with the matter said.

The Dow industrials and the S&P 500 index fell on Monday as a drop in oil and other commodity prices hurt energy and materials stocks.

The Dow industrials and the S&P 500 index fell on Monday as a decline in oil and other commodity prices hurt energy and materials stocks.

America's Got Talent judge David Hasselhoff was reportedly taken to hospital on Sunday, according to entertainment blogging site TMZ.com.

Walt Disney Studios Chairman Dick Cook stepped down on Friday from his post to pursue new adventures after privately telling staff he felt he no longer fits in at the No. 1 U.S. entertainment company.

Solar thermal company BrightSource Inc has dropped plans to build a solar power plant in the Mojave Desert, losing a battle with environmentalists and a U.S. senator who want to preserve the surrounding area.

A Paris tribunal has found that eBay Inc violated LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA trademarks in keyword searches, but the fine of 80,000 euros ($117,600) leveled against the Internet company was far less than the French luxury brand had hoped for.

Walt Disney Studios Chairman Dick Cook said on Friday he will resign, effective immediately, from the unit of the Walt Disney Co to pursue new adventures.

One of the best-known auto industry executives in the world has fallen on hard times.

The son of actors Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal, who spent his mother's dying days in jail on a drugs charge, was ordered into a one-year treatment program on Friday for heroin possession.

Investors in U.S. mortgage bonds backed by the Federal Housing Administration own one of the safest bets on Wall Street, yet mounting defaults on the underlying collateral are seen posing risks.

LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA said on Friday that a Paris tribunal found eBay Inc liable for brand counterfeiting, and ordered the Internet auction and retail company to pay the French luxury brand 80,000 euros ($118,000).

LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA said on Friday that a Paris tribunal found eBay Inc liable for brand counterfeiting, and ordered the Internet auction and retail company to pay the French luxury brand 80,000 euros.

Chrysler executive Jim Press has been sued by a California credit union for failing to repay more than $400,000 on a loan dating back to his stint as chief of Toyota Motor Corp's U.S. operations, court records show.

Southern California Edison's 1,070-megawatt Unit 2 at San Onofre nuclear power station in California ramped up to 98 percent by early Friday from 60 percent early Thursday after exiting an outage, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a report.

The classic series M*A*S*H, the hit movie comedy Tootsie and the Tony-winning play A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum are part of the enduring legacy that writer Larry Gelbart left behind when he died September 11 at age 81. But there also are the memories of those he inspired and made laugh.

The man who has the power to set pay on Wall Street is hitting the road for a series of speeches before he has even publicly testified before Congress.

When the Emmy-nominated television stars begin their stroll up the red carpet Sunday at U.S. TV's top honors, one nominee will be on the wrong side of the line between celebrities and onlookers, Carrie Ann Inaba.

Solar power makers will get a boost in California, already their largest U.S. market, as it sharpens its focus on small-scale projects as part of efforts to get a third of its power from renewable energy.

Investors betting on renewable or clean energy and related green themes are looking for healthy and sustainable returns, but the road is full of pitfalls for the unwary, investment managers warned on Thursday.

There's a good chance you've been hearing more about biodiesel lately. This article, the first of several short discussions about biodiesel that will appear in the next few months, lays out some of the basic terminology and qualities associated with this fuel.