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Zynga, the social gaming company behind hits like FarmVille, CityVille and Words with Friends, has reportedly set its IPO date for Nov. 17, just a week before Thanksgiving.

The airline industry is handing out barf bags to passengers and lawmakers as part of a major advertising campaign against Obama’s proposed airline tax hikes.

Eastman Kodak, the ailing imaging giant, met with hedge funds including Cerberus Capital and Silverpoint to raise as much as $900 million in bridge financing.

The National Retail Federation (NRF) has spelt ghoulish Halloween spending this year in its’ 2011 Halloween Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey. Overall, 2011 will see Americans spend about $6.86 billion on Halloween, according to the survey. The latest survey therefore could spell kudos for the food Industry and the retail sector in their ingenuity in marketing “Halloween” since its official inception in the 1920s. 40 years on, retail shelves scramble for volumes to spook us even before th...

Harold Camping is wrong again about his Doomsday prediction, but by this time around he has already been famously defined as a false prophet by his fellow Christians.

Same time next year. With the huge success of Paranormal Activity 3, expect yet another sequel next October.

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul came out on top in an Ohio straw poll Saturday. The result surprised many as Paul garnered more than twice the percentage of votes for Herman Cain and six times the percentage of votes for Mitt Romney, the two Republican frontrunners.

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 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 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.