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Facebook, the world's largest Internet social network, is preparing for a initial public stock offering next year, according to a source familiar with the matter.

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?

U.S. District Court Judge Jed S. Rakoff issued an acerbic order blocking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's proposed $285 million deal with Citigroup that is "neither fair, nor reasonable, nor adequate, nor in the public interest."

Fifth Third Bancorp and the Securities and Exchange Commission settled on Wednesday allegations the bank failed to adequately notify all investors of a material event. The bank neither admitted nor denied the allegations but agreed not to violate disclosure rules.

Former customers of MF Global Holdings Ltd got some good news on Tuesday, as the bankruptcy trustee secured more assets and the CME Group Inc expanded a guarantee to speed the return of frozen funds.

Arkansas Razorbacks tight end Garrett Uekman was reportedly found dead in his dorm room early Sunday morning of unknown causes, according to a report by Adam Alter of KNWA/KARK on Twitter.

At least two Goldman Sachs Group Inc executives face potential interviews under oath in connection to Rajat Gupta case.

The Ducks host the Trojans at Autzen Stadium.

Negative rumors have turned Jefferies Group Inc. into the latest financial whipping boy. A controversial report from ratings agency Egan-Jones, which the firm has stood by, has spooked the markets. Jefferies is insistent that it remains solid. Who will investors believe?

John A. Mattera was arrested Thursday for telling investors that they could buy shares of stock from Facebook, Twitter and other technology companies before their initial public offering.

Two weeks after filing a complaint with the SEC, The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) took another step in a legal battle with Smithfield Foods, one of McDonald's major pork suppliers for products like the McRib.

Online reviews site for local businesses Yelp filed its initial public offering with the SEC Thursday. Goldman Sachs and Citigroup are the lead underwriters for the IPO, which is expected in early 2012.

Peyton Manning has been a member of the Indianapolis Colts for his entire career. Prior to this season, he had started every game since he was a rookie. However, with the team winless and heading for the top draft pick and prized quarterback prospect Andrew Luck, rumors are swirling that the Colts may be willing to auction off Manning to the highest bidder.

The decision to lay off 1,066 people who worked for MF Global -- effective immediately and without severance -- will give people pause. But it is only the beginning of the nastiness in the MF Global saga

Amazon kept its purchase of voice recognition start-up Yap under heavy wraps. Here's why.

Online reviews site Yelp intends to go public in the first quarter of 2012, and has hired Goldman Sachs and Citigroup to lead the IPO. The social tech bubble is expanding...

Now that Groupon has finally gone public, raising $700 million through its Nov. 4 IPO, how about some others in the pipeline as well as the king of them all, Facebook?

Goldman Sachs Group Inc faces lawsuits over $15.8 billion worth of mortgage securities, the bank said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday, a more than 30-fold increase from the amount disclosed three months earlier.

According to coach Bronco Mendenhall in his weekly news conference on Monday, the Big East has approached BYU about giving up its football independence and joining the conference's soon-to-be Western division along with Boise State and Air Force.

McDonald's limited-time reintroduction of the McRib has already led to examination of some of the item's questionable ingredients. Now, one of the prime companies from which McDonald's gets its main ingredient for the sandwich -- pork -- is the target of an SEC complaint.

An article labeled Saturday's much-anticipated Alabama-LSU game as The Super Bowl of Oversigning, a reference to both schools' histories of signing more players than are eligible for readily available scholarships.