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GM Kicks Off Aggressive Money-Back Campaign

General Motors kicks off a marketing campaign next week pitched by its new chairman and featuring a money-back guarantee — unsatisfied car buyers can get ...

American, Delta Mull Stake in JAL

American Airlines parent AMR Corp. is negotiating for closer ties and possibly an investment in financially troubled Japan Airlines Corp., according to a person familiar ...

Airlines Cut Flights to Lowest Level Since 2001

The U.S. airline industry is shrinking to a size not seen since the months after the 2001 terror attacks. The airlines have been trimming flights ...

Struggling JAL Considers Tieup with Air France-KLM

Struggling Japan Airlines Corp. has entered talks with Air France-KLM over a capital tie-up, a newspaper said Saturday. Asia's biggest airline hopes to expand its ...

GM Rescinds Spring's White-Collar Pay Cuts

General Motors Co. has rescinded white-collar pay cuts it made last spring as it desperately tried to conserve cash and avoid filing for bankruptcy protection. ...

World Stocks Rise on Good News from China, U.S.

European and Asian stock markets rose Friday on strong economic data from China and comments by U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who said the financial ...

China Output, Consumer Spending Surged in August

China's recovery gained momentum in August as stimulus spending helped boost industrial output, investment and retail sales in the world's third-largest economy, offsetting a slump ...

China's Exports, Trade Surplus Fell in August

China's exports languished in August, contracting 23 percent, increasing the onus on Beijing's massive stimulus spending to drive an economic recovery. Customs data released Friday ...

Japan's Q2 Growth Was Weaker Than Estimated

Japan's growth in the second quarter was weaker than initially thought, but government figures still show that the world's second largest economy has managed to ...

World Markets Slip Ahead of Fed Meeting

World stock markets were modestly lower Monday as investors look to this week's Federal Reserve meeting for more clues about the strength of the U.S. ...

Chinese Gov't to Help Finish Revel's Atlantic City Casino

Revel Entertainment has turned to the Chinese government for help finishing its lavish Atlantic City casino. China State Construction Engineering Corp., the construction arm of ...

Trade, Jobless Data Support Recovery Optimism

The U.S. trade deficit in July hit the highest level in six months as a record rise in imports outpaced a third straight increase in ...

Rick Niu Promoted to CMO for ING's US Retirement Services

Rick Niu, who has been heading up ING's multicultural growth strategy and execution in the U.S., was promoted to chief marketing officer for ING U.S. ...

China Could Be $1 Tril. Green Tech Market

China potentially could be a $500 billion to $1 trillion a year market for environmentally sustainable "green technologies," a group of businesses and experts said ...

Japanese Machinery Orders Fell 9.3%

Japanese machinery orders, a closely watched indicator of corporate capital spending, fell back in July after rising the previous month, the government said Thursday, suggesting ...

Asia, Europe Rise on Fed Optimism

European and Asian stocks rose Thursday and Wall Street was expected to gain at the open after a Federal Reserve report boosted hopes the U.S. ...

Cal High Court Lets Stand Starbucks Award Reversal

The California Supreme Court will not review a appeals court ruling that wiped out an $86 million judgment against coffee giant Starbucks over tip sharing ...

Rhapsody Streaming Music App Okayed for iPhones

RealNetworks Inc.'s subscription music service Rhapsody has been approved for use on iPhones and iPod Touches, the first time Apple Inc. has allowed an on-demand ...

GM Ends Trial Selling Cars on eBay

General Motors Co. said Tuesday that it is concluding its partnership with eBay Inc. in which the automaker used the auction site to sell new ...

IBM Undercuts Google with Corporate Email Service

IBM Corp. is trying to stymie Google Inc.'s expansion into the business software market. The weapon: a bare-bones e-mail service that IBM is selling to ...

Comcast Mulls Controlling Stake in NBC Universal

Comcast Corp. might spend billions for a stake in NBC Universal, a deal that would transform the nation's largest cable TV provider into one of ...

Consumer Spending Jumped in August

Consumer spending, propelled by the wildly popular Cash for Clunkers auto sales program, shot up in August by the largest amount in nearly eight years ...

New Jobless Claims Show Surprising Rise

First-time claims for jobless benefits increased more than expected last week, a sign employers are reluctant to hire and the job market remains weak. And ...

GM Kills Off Saturn

For those who expected General Motors' once-funky Saturn brand to live on with a new owner, there has been a sad twist. Saturn, once billed ...

Economy Shows Many Recovery Signs

Consumer spending, the bulwark of economic growth, is showing signs of life as the economy transitions from recession to recovery. The key question is whether ...

Microsoft Video on Windows 7 Launch Parties Amuses

You almost have to feel bad for Microsoft. The software maker isn't known for hip marketing tactics, and now that a Windows 7 video has ...

TV Nets Weave More Ads into Series Plotlines

In television's latest quest to discourage viewers from skipping ads, actors from NBC and ABC shows are appearing in character in commercials to interact with ...

Prius Boosts Size, Gas Mileage for 2010

There's a little something extra for car buyers who have their hearts set on top fuel mileage in the Toyota Prius. But they'd better not ...

Toyota Warns Against Wrong-Size Floor Mats

Toyota's president said it was "extremely regrettable" an American family died in a crash in which a floor mat in one of the Japanese automaker's ...

CIT May File Chapt. 11 If Lender Meeting Fails

CIT Group Inc.'s shares soared Tuesday on a report that hedge fund manager John Paulson is considering merging the troubled finance company with failed mortgage ...

China Romantic Comedy Gets Fox Investment

Fox Filmed Entertainment says it has invested in its first Chinese film, becoming the latest Hollywood studio to enter the booming mainland movie market. The ...

AT&T to Sell Garmin GPS-Hybrid Nuvifone

After more than a year of delays, Garmin Ltd.'s GPS unit/wireless device hybrid nuvifone is finally going on sale in the U.S. Garmin, based in ...

Leading China Filmmaker Plans $91 Mil. IPO

Huayi Brothers, one of China's leading filmmakers, has listed itself on ChiNext with an eye toward raising 620 million Chinese yuan ($91 million) in an ...

Warner to Return Music to YouTube Under New Deal

Warner Music Group Corp. has agreed to return songs and music videos from its artists to the YouTube video site, after a monthslong boycott over ...

Singapore Recoups Half of Big Loss from Crash

Singapore state investment company GIC said Tuesday its investments fell more than 20 percent in the 12 months ending March, but have recovered more than ...

Asian Stocks Rise on Yen Fall, Wall Street Jump

Asian stocks bounced back Tuesday as big corporate takeovers in the U.S. gave investors a new shot of confidence and the yen retreated from a ...

CNN to Charge Fee to Download Its iPhone App

CNN is coming out with an iPhone application Tuesday that has a feature few other news apps have tried: a price tag. There's been a ...

New Apps Turn Cell Phones into Localized Guides

You're walking down the street, looking for a good place to eat. You hold up your cell phone and use it like the viewfinder on ...

Samsung to Report Record Profits for Q3

Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday that profit likely surged in the third quarter on higher sales, amid a brightening outlook for the world's largest manufacturer ...

Bailed Out Dairy Industry Must Restructure: Ag Sect'y

The struggling U.S. dairy industry must be restructured to avoid cycles of boom and bust, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Monday, less than a week ...

3-D TVs Shown at Japan Electronics Show

Japan's big name electronic manufacturers are readying flat-screen TVs that can show high-definition movies and video games in 3D for launch next year. At the ...

Toyota Previews All-Electric, Green Sports Car

Besides showing off its well-known hybrids, Toyota will take a slightly different tack at the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show to display a green sportscar with ...

FTC Regulates Online Reviews, Blogs, Testimonials

The Federal Trade Commission on Monday took steps to make product information and online reviews more accurate for consumers, regulating blogging for the first time ...

Las Vegas CityCenter Slashes Condo Prices

Developers of the $8.5 billion CityCenter on the Las Vegas Strip plan a 30 percent price cut on condos there that people have already agreed ...

Toyota Recall Addresses Potential Floor-Mat Problem

Toyota Motor Corp. officially recalled 3.8 million vehicles in the United States on Monday to address problems with floor mats that could cause the gas ...

Recession Offers Rare Investment Opportunities

The Great Recession has turned into the best of times for young investor Daniel Lee. Early this year, the 30-year-old salesman in Scottsdale, Ariz., shelved ...

Japan Fears Deflation on Record Drop in Prices

The government says prices in Japan tumbled at a record pace in August amid growing worries about jobs and wages. The country's core consumer price ...

Coach Sues Target for Alleged Copies of Handbags

Coach Inc. is suing low-price retailer Target Corp. over bags the luxury handbag maker says too closely resemble its own designs. Coach wants Target to ...

Olympics Urged to Plug into YouTube Generation

The Olympic movement needs to learn from the likes of YouTube or risk losing young viewers for life, IOC members were told Monday. Communications guru ...

Vonage Apps Allow Free Foreign Calls for iPhone, BB

Vonage Holdings Corp., a pioneer in Internet-based home phone service, is launching applications for the iPhone and BlackBerry that undercut the international calling rates of ...