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General Electric Co and Microsoft Corp are forming a joint venture to develop and sell software systems to make it easier for healthcare providers to store, access and share patient information.

India has retracted its plan to allow foreign retail chains like Wal-Mart and Britain's Tesco to open in the country, according to multiple reports. The reversal comes less than two weeks after the global business sector and the Indian government heaped praise on the original deal to let foreign retailers into India to jolt the country's economy and lower prices for farmers and consumers.

The company will partner with New York-based ProPublica, the Chicago Reporter, Philadelphia-based WHYY Radio and Los Angeles-based KPCC Radio.

Dozens of adult stem cell treatments are moving through clinical trials and showing early success, raising hopes that some could reach the market within five years.

A rogue surgeon injects stem cells from a fetus into a sick man's brain. The cells morph and form body parts. When the man dies, the pathologist finds cartilage, skin and bone clumped in his brain.

Don’t look now but we’re already in the zettabyte era. Next year, market forecaster IDC predicts, the volume of digital content will rise 48 percent, to 2.7 zettabytes.

Getco LLC, an electronic market maker and high-frequency trading specialist, on Wednesday said it agreed to buy Bank of America Corp's floor-trading operations at the New York Stock Exchange, significantly expanding its market-making operations.

General Electric, the No. 1 U.S. conglomerate, unveiled a major upgrade of its Proficy Historian enterprise software to enable manufacturers to better access huge databases and improve quality.

U.S-based multinational corporations added almost 3 million jobs to their payrolls in foreign countries between 1999 and 2009, while slashing 864,600 jobs at home, as they become increasingly dependent on foreign sales. Is tax holiday a viable solution?

The past Black Friday weekend saw record breaking sales figures as consumers are feeling more comfortable to purchase again. Job market outlook for early 2012 could provide another gentle boost to consumer spending, which accounts for as much as 70 percent of all U.S. growth.

This year’s Thanksgiving Day Massacre was AT&T’s $39 billion deal to acquire T-Mobile to create the biggest U.S. wireless carrier.

Kenneth Kies sizes up the chances of reforming the convoluted U.S. tax code like someone who has lived through it before. In fact, he has.

After President Barack Obama's commitment this month to a transpacific free trade agreement, business leaders in Europe and United States are asking for a similar initiative across the North Atlantic to spur economic growth and create jobs.

President Barack Obama welcomed on Friday a $21.7 billion jet deal his administration helped broker between Boeing and an Indonesian airline, calling it a win-win for U.S. workers and Asian consumers

General Electric Co plans to hire about 400 people to work in a new software development center it intends to open in San Ramon, California, next year, the largest U.S. conglomerate said on Thursday.

Initial jobless claims fell 5,000 to 388,000 for the week ended Nov. 12, a seven-month low, the U.S. Labor Department announced. If the downtrend continues, it would be, arguably, the best news the U.S. economy has registered this year.

General Electric, the biggest U.S. conglomerate, announced plans to hire as many as 400 more software engineers for a new global center in San Ramon, Calif. The company said it plans to spend as much as $1 billion on software development through 2015.

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is expected to resign, perhaps as early as Saturday evening, thereby ending a wild and tumultuous political career.

With Europe mired in crisis, President Barack Obama is launching a charm offensive this week to hitch the U.S. economy to opportunities in Asia he hopes can help power the recovery he needs for re-election.

Silvio Berlusconi is expected to quit within a week, if not days.

Warren Littlefield was NBC's entertainment chief during the network's long run as the home of Must See TV comedy on Thursday nights.