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The Samsung Galaxy S3 has had so many rumored release dates there is no real way of knowing when the phone will actually come out, but a new report indicates that Samsung's Greater China president, Kim Young-Ha, is planning on moving the launch forward to April.

International Business Machines launched on Tuesday three services to help companies sift and understand so-called big data, hoping to get some of the $120 billion or more that businesses are expected to invest in data analytics by 2015.

The world's largest television and online retailer QVC Inc. is starting a joint venture with China's national radio broadcaster to enter the world's most populous growing consumer and media market.

The American Petroleum Institute, the U.S. oil industry's main trade group, renewed its call Tuesday for President Barack Obama develop the country's untapped resources, saying that would lower national gasoline prices.

Online retail giant Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced on Monday it plans to buy robotics company Kiva Systems Inc. for $775 million as part of ongoing expansion efforts.

Major indexes across Europe were down Tuesday on negative news regarding an expected slowdown in Chinese economic growth.

The market clearly liked the news – Apple shares jumped 2.65 percent on Monday to close above $600 per share for the first time.

Samsung Galaxy S3 rumors have gained momentum after a photo was leaked on Reddit, which claims to have come from a Samsung employee who got a glimpse of the highly anticipated phone.

The National Development and Reform Commission is raising retail gas prices by 600 yuan ($95) a metric ton, leading to an average pump price hike of 6.8 percent.

Cisco Systems (CSCO.O) is expanding its services to enable companies to manage and secure private mobile devices used by employees at work, aiming to benefit from the trend widely known as BYOD or Bring Your Own Device.

The top after-market NASDAQ losers Monday were: Adobe Systems, Salem Communications, Websense, Retail Opportunity Investments, Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Otter Tail Corp, Amerigon Inc, TiVo, Autodesk and Cirrus Logic.

Following the release of the much anticipated Marni for H&M collection, the Swedish retail clothing brand has launched yet another exciting collection that has caused much anticipation and excitement among fashion connoisseurs globally.

At the height of the boom, commercial banks and investors gorged themselves on real estate, building unsustainable towers of debt that finally collapsed in 2008. But with the housing market improving, they may soon return for second helpings.

Scholastic is publishing a biography of Jeremy Lin.

China will raise its heavily regulated retail gasoline and diesel prices Tuesday by 6.4 percent and 7 percent, respectively, marking the biggest increase in 33 months, according to the National Development and Reform Commission.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has acknowledged that the company has too much cash lying around - nearly $100 billion just sitting in the bank. The CEO admitted so much cash is unnecessary, and should be spent on advancing the company.

A new official-looking photo of the highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S3 phone has leaked onto a social media website, printed with a May 22nd release date.

As the world's largest company with a market cap of more than half a billion dollars, Apple Inc. [AAPL] is sitting on a large pile of cash upwards of $100 billion and decided Monday to institute a $2.65 a share quarterly dividend and buy back $10 billion in stock, the tech behemoth announced today.

Apple announced it will repurchase as many as $10 billion worth of shares now. Later this year, it plans to pay an initial dividend of $2.65 a share.

Capcom have confirmed that a host of unlockable content has been included with Street Fighter X Tekken retail disc for Xbox 360 and PS3, including 12 previously unknown characters, and that players have to pay an additional fee to unlock and access them.

St. Patrick's day fell on a Saturday this year and fans of green beer, Ireland and revelry in general took to the streets and their favorite Irish pubs to celebrate the holiday, which commemorates Saint Patrick, who rid Ireland of snakes, according to popular Christian lore. If you can't participate in the festivities yourself, enjoy our slideshow of people around the world celebrating Saint Patrick's day.