Norman Corwin, the award-winning writer and director of golden-age radio plays who was also Oscar nominated for his work in films has died of natural causes at home in Los Angeles. He was 101.
When U.S. restrictions on work permits barred Intel from moving nearly 50 Finnish engineers to the United States this year, the microchip maker reluctantly parked them in a new research center in Finland.
Stock index futures fell on Thursday after weaker-than-expected economic data in China reawakened global economic worry and earnings from JPMorgan Chase.
A summary of some of the secrets that have emerged so far from Wikileaks.
Emmy-winning former CBS News vice president Lane Venardos, who produced coverage of such historic events as the Persian Gulf War and China's Tiananmen Square protests, has died. He was 67.
There's some debate over whether Anonymous will actually be able to take down social networking giant Facebook on November 5th, as it claims, but let's say that it does.
Only twelve of the companies in the S&P 500 index currently have women chief executives, down from 15 in 2010.
The wide receiver decides to call it quits. Here's a look back at his career.
A look at the Tour de France, and update of the leaderboard
The top after-market NYSE gainers on Thursday are: Advanced Micro Devices, Radian Group, Gardner Denver, Western Digital, Dupont Fabros Technology, NCR Corp, HealthSouth, Eastman Kodak and Red Hat.
A few hours away from the spectacular fireworks of July 4th in Washington, D.C., are you still looking for a spot to watch the show? Here are some tips for the last-minute viewers.
As Apple attempts to chart out new territory with its cloud-offering iCloud, it is entering into a domain ruled by other giants like Google, Amazon and Microsoft who have huge data centers to back their cloud services.
Apple has already signed a seven-year lease for extra data space with a new Silicon Valley data center built by DuPont Fabros Technology (DFT). It is Rumored that the purpose is preparing to launch a new set of online services under the name iCloud.
China will breed its own high-yield seeds and set up large seed companies to help ensure the country's food security in coming decades.
A US hedge fund has objected to DuPont's $5.8 billion bid for Danisco, a global enzyme and specialty food ingredients company, according to a report from Reuters.
Elliott Associates, the $17 billion U.S. hedge fund, added its voice to demands that chemicals giant DuPont raise its $5.8 billion bid for Danisco, the Danish maker of food ingredients and enzymes.
The companies that reported earnings before the markets open on Tuesday are: Verizon, Johnson & Johnson, 3M Co., EMC Corp., Corning, DuPont, Kimberly-Clark, Sherwin-Williams, Harley-Davidson and W.W. Grainger.
The companies which are expected to see active trade on Tuesday are: DuPont, Verizon, Yahoo, Johnson & Johnson, 3M, W.W. Grainger, EMC and Vmware.
Stocks finished mixed, following a sell-off in Europe, on worries over Portugal possibly needing a financial bailout, ahead of the kick-off of the fourth-quarter earnings season.
Wilmington, Delaware-based chemical manufacturer DuPont has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $3.3 million for violating the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
Stocks finished narrowly mixed in lethargic trading as an early jump on a benign jobless claims data faded away on a stronger U.S. dollar and later on news that Democrats in the House voted against considering the tax cut extensions that President Obama negotiated with Republicans.