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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.

A provision in the president's jobs bill would provide tax incentives for businesses that hire veterans and would establish a program to train veterans in the skills they need to re-integrate into a civilian workforce.

One in 10 Americans is on antidepressants, according to a new survey by the Centers for Disease Control -- a 400 percent increase from a decade ago.

Nokia and Microsoft will unveil their new Windows Phones at the Nokia World Event on Oct. 26. Nokia will be showing off more than one phone.

China defended its right to censor the Internet on Thursday, saying it was necessary to safeguard the public after the United States pressed China to explain online curbs on U.S. companies.

Miners at Freeport Indonesia will end a month-long industrial action and blockades at the world's second-biggest copper mine if the firm scraps sanctions against striking workers and considers a five-fold pay hike, the union said on Thursday.

Swiss bank UBS AG's caretaker chief executive Sergio Ermotti has ruled out a sale or spinoff of the investment bank and is planning to shrink the investment-banking unit, the Wall Street Journal reported.

EBay Inc reported profit that matched Wall Street estimates and gave a restrained outlook for the rest of the year, sending its shares lower.

Groupon Goods has announced a big discount on two lower-end tablets running the Android operating system. Users can receive up to 50 percent off the retail price.

Adderall is becoming hard to find in New York City.

Selena Gomez should be feeling safe by now, knowing that the Los Angeles Police is taking the recent death threat posed by a homeless stalker extremely seriously.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has nominated Patrick Foye, a top economic advisor, as executive director of the Port Authority, the bi-state agency responsible for regional bridges, tunnels and airports.

Google Ice Cream Sandwich debuted with new features like Face Unlock and Android Beam

One in ten Americans takes antidepressants, according to a federal study published Wednesday, a rate that has skyrocketed in the last two decades.

As Porsche prepares to introduce the Cajun model, the company announced the expansion of its production facility in Leipzig, Germany.

Citigroup Inc will pay $285 million to settle charges that its U.S. broker-dealer unit misled investors about a $1 billion mortgage bond deal, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Wednesday.

A bear cub was caught on a cell phone video perusing the vegetable aisle at an Alaska grocery store.

Gold eased on Wednesday as growing hopes of a resolution to the Eurozone debt crisis persuaded investors to shrug off a downgrade to Spain's credit rating and buy riskier assets such as equities.

Falling copper prices and labor strife at some mines cut Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.'s third-quarter results by 11 percent.

Barnes parts JetBlue on good terms, says spokesperson.

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (NYSE: BK) reported a third quarter net income of $651 million, or $0.53 per common share Wednesday morning, an increase of 4.7 perecent when compared with $622 million, or $0.51 per common share, in the third quarter of 2010. The results were a penny over mean analyst predictions of $0.52 per share.