Apple Inc moved to shore up its board after the death of Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs, appointing Walt Disney Co chief executive Bob Iger to its board to propel its media ambitions.
A U.S.-based private equity firm, is looking at buying Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, the owner of Toronto's NHL and NBA sports teams, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Newmont Mining Corp's Indonesian unit said output was unaffected at its copper and gold mine even though 400 workers had gone on strike in a dispute over working shifts.
Hackers attacking Canadian organizations are determined to make money in targeted campaigns while government insiders stole more data than ever before, a security study released on Tuesday showed.
Pressure eased on Europe's government debt market Wednesday, with Italian borrowing costs back below the 7 percent level viewed as unsustainable after the European Central Bank was seen buying up bonds.
The top after market NYSE Losers on Tuesday were: Och-Ziff Capital Management, GMAC LLC, Symetra Financial, Cenveo, LSI Logic, McGraw-Hill Companies, Agilent Technologies, Dycom Industries, HyperDynamics and IDT Corp.
Japan's disgraced Olympus Corp is preparing to take legal action, including possible criminal complaints, against any executives found responsible for the accounting scandal engulfing the firm, according to an internal staff email.
Shares in Japan's disgraced Olympus Corp jumped on Wednesday on speculation that it can escape delisting over an accounting scandal and that the brunt of any punishment will be borne by a few executives rather than the firm itself.
The strong showing of Immortals and Jack and Jill this weekend -- raking in a total of $57 million combined and beating expectations -- buoyed Hollywood's hope that young men were finally turning back to the cineplex.
Sprint Nextel announced Tuesday that it would become the first U.S. mobile carrier to offer Wireless Emergency Alerts on its mobile network.
Reports Tuesday suggest that rather than auction itself to the likes of Microsoft or Walt Disney or to a private equity investor such as Silver Lake Partners or Providence Equity Partners, Yahoo may try a PIPE.
Hedge fund manager and long-time gold bull John Paulson's move to slash ETF bullion holdings by a third in the third quarter does not appear to be a sign that he is abandoning his upbeat view of the metal, industry sources and analysts said.
A fire broke out and was quickly extinguished Monday night in a crude distillation unit at Chevron Corp's 245,271 barrel-per-day (bpd) Richmond, California, refinery, according to notices the refinery filed with state and federal pollution regulators.
In a grand gesture to its ardent fashion following, The New York Times launched The Collection, a fashion app for the iPad on Monday Nov. 14.
A new survey from the U.S. Census Bureau found that women without a high school diploma are almost four times less likely to receive paid leave after childbirth, the widest gap in 50 years.
Think twice before throwing a plastic bottle in a trashcan, especially since Tuesday Nov. 15 is America Recycles Day.
A small group of protesters have been gathering near the former site of St. Vincent's Hospital for the past eight days to demand Rudin Management, the developer of the site, bring back full-service to the hospital.
Facebook has been hit hard by an all-new virus, where people have reported pornographic and violent images being streamed continuously on their newsfeeds.
Dadaab, which is located near the Somali border, is now the world’s largest refugee settlement camp.
Canada-listed Sino-Forest Corp said an independent committee found no evidence of fraud at the Chinese timber firm following allegations from short-seller Muddy Waters it had exaggerated its assets, although the committee also said it had been unable to verify the company owned all of its forests.
Union workers at Freeport Indonesia are extending their strike into a third month, keeping production and exports halted from the world's second biggest copper mine.
All Blacks winger Zac Guildford apologized for stumbling naked and drunk into a bar and allegedly assaulted two people.The incident happened in the small South Pacific nation of the Cook Islands.
