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LOS ANGELES — In the nearly five months since it launched a string of recalls to stop its cars from accelerating out of control, […]

Movie night and restaurant meals are out for Vinod Kumar. As prices for sugar, onions, and other staples surge after poor monsoon rains damaged […]

Telecoms gear maker UTStarcom Inc. will change CEOs and move its head office to Beijing after getting a $48.5 million investment.
The Alameda company (NASDAQ: UTSI) […]

Apple Inc. earned $3.38 billion on revenue of $15.68 billion in the first quarter ended Dec. 26.
A year earlier, the Cupertino maker of computers, iPhones […]

Fewer people were hired to work in Hawaii stores at the start of the holiday season, but the people who worked put in more hours.
Retail […]

Canwest Communications Inc. is hoping to fetch at least $1 billion to $1.5 billion for its national chain of big city daily newspapers, including the […]

The Toronto stock market closed higher Tuesday following indications of an improving U.S. economy.
The S&P/TSX composite index advanced 73.26 points to 11,627.98 as U.S. […]

Denver's Clyfford Still Museum — the future home of some 2,400 works by the noted abstract expressionist artist — broke ground Monday, several months later […]

Federal Reserve policy makers said for the first time that their decision to cut interest rates to zero may be fueling undue financial-market speculation […]

Two computer programmers provided technical support to falsify documents and trading records for swindler Bernard Madoff and took hush money to help keep the […]