U.S. House Speaker John Boehner toured a Rio de Janeiro shantytown that police recently seized from drug traffickers as he kicked off a trade-boosting trip to Latin America on Monday.
Elan Microelectronics Corp, a Taiwanese touch design company, said on Thursday that Apple Inc will pay $5m as part of a settlement in a patent infringement case.
A federal court judge on Friday denied a Chevron Corp bid to prevent Ecuadorean plaintiffs from collecting on an $18bn damages award against the U.S. oil giant over pollution in the Amazon jungle.
Bridgewater Associates has made big money for investors in recent years by staying bearish on much of the global economy. As the new year rings in, the hedge fund firm has no plans to change that gloomy view.
Are large companies able to innovate quickly enough in an age of rapid disruption? And if they can, how do they do it?
In a no-brainer, a single-member Panel with the National Arbitration Forum has ordered several YouTube typo domain names be transferred to Google.
Federal prosecutors want a judge to order a Colorado woman to provide the password to decrypt her laptop, which the government seized with a search warrant.
The Walt Disney Co. said Wednesday that it reached a long-term agreement with the nation´s largest TV signal provider, Comcast Corp., that extends their partnership into the next decade.
A Labrador and his sensitive nose have raised thorny questions about the Fourth Amendment.
The ousted British CEO of disgraced Olympus Corp, who blew the whistle on a $1.7bn accounting fraud, dropped his bid to return to lead the medical device maker, blaming cozy ties between its management and big Japanese shareholders and saying the saga had taken its toll on his family.
The Spanish government has approved tough new legislation which could see websites deemed to be trading in pirated material blocked within ten days.
As cars and trucks have become laden with brainy devices to control a host of features, the vehicles have become increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks, studies find.
Eastman Kodak Co. is preparing to seek bankruptcy protection in the coming weeks, people familiar with the matter said, a move that would cap a stunning comedown for a company that once ranked among America´s corporate titans.
Prosecutors accused three Swiss bankers on Tuesday of conspiring with wealthy U.S. taxpayers to hide more than $1.2bn in assets from tax authorities, and sources briefed on the matter said the three worked for Wegelin & Co, one of Switzerland´s oldest private banks.
Chevron Corp.´s effort to overturn an $18bn judgment against it was rejected by an Ecuador appeals court in a lawsuit alleging the company is responsible for chemicals spilled in the Amazon River basin more than 20 years ago.
German President Christian Wulff is confronted with fast-waning support over allegations he tried to hush up a home loan scandal. Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has so far defended the president, is silent.
In the growing battle for the future of the Web, some of the biggest sites online -- Google, Facebook, and other tech stalwarts -- are considering a coordinated blackout of their sites, some of the web´s most popular destinations.
A Brazilian prosecutor who found contradictions in a report on Arturo Gatti´s death has asked authorities to further investigate the case of the Montreal boxer who was found dead in a hotel room in 2009.
PDVSA - Petroleos de Venezuela SA must pay about $750m to Exxon Mobil Corp., a 10th of what the U.S. company is seeking, for assets nationalized by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in 2007, according to two people with knowledge of the case.
BP seeks to have Halliburton Co., its cement contractor for the Macondo well project whose blowout set off the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, pay all of the oil company’s related costs and damages.
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