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Toyota Engineers Head to New York Prius Crash

Toyota engineers on Wednesday will examine a Prius in suburban New York that crashed into a stone wall after its driver claims the hybrid

Google's Likely Pullout Would Change China Tech Landscape

China without Google — a prospect that looks increasingly likely — could mean no more maps on mobile phones. A free music service that has ...

Toyota to See Solid Profits Despite High Costs of Recalls

A massive global recall, mounting legal bills and a battered reputation add up to a very expensive problem for Toyota.

Twitter Still Blocked but Working on Mandarin Signup

Twitter is working on a way to allow Chinese users to sign up to the social networking site in their own language, a co-founder of ...

Toyota Dismisses March 8 Prius Acceleration Story

Toyota Motor Corp. dismissed the story of a man who claimed his Prius sped out of control on the California freeway, saying Monday that its ...

Continental to Start Charging for Food

Continental Airlines is ending free hamburgers, barbecue and sandwich rolls for many of its passengers in favor of a food-for-sale program that mirrors

World Stocks Dip on Finance Reform Bill Anxiety

World stock markets fell Monday as investors fretted about the status of banking reform in the U.S. and awaited confirmation of a rescue package

Facebook Opens Operations Office in India

Social networking site Facebook is opening an operations office in India, its first in Asia, to help manage rapid growth in the number of users.

Asian American Unemployment Rate Lowest

The report released Friday by the Labor Department for the month of February shows that Asian Americans have the lowest unemployment rate

Roche Suspends Arthritis Drug Study After Deaths

Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche Group said Monday it has suspended a late-stage trial for a new rheumatoid arthritis and lupus drug

McDonald's Sales Jumped 4.8% on Overseas Growth

McDonald's Corp. said Monday that sales at restaurants open at least a year climbed 4.8 percent in February on strong overseas growth

Toyoda Meets Hatoyama, Vows to Restore Trust

Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda met with Japan's prime minister Monday and promised to restore trust in the automaker's cars

World Stocks Up on U.S. Jobs Data, Recovery Hopes

World stock markets gained Monday as a better-than-expected report about the U.S. job market lifted confidence in the economic recovery.

Employer-Consumer Standoff Makes for Slow Recovery

To understand why jobs are so scarce, consider John McFarland and Nicole Rosen. The two share something in common: They're reluctant to spend freely.

Minority Cos. Not Getting Fair Share of Stimulus Bucks

Hispanic and black businesses are receiving a disproportionately small number of federal stimulus contracts, creating a rising chorus of demands

China Faces New Pressures to Let Yuan Rise

China faces mounting pressure from trading partners to loosen currency controls and is giving signs it might raise the value of the yuan to ease ...

CBO Projects Slower Growth, Bigger Deficit Than Obama

A new congressional report released Friday says the United States' long-term fiscal woes are even worse than predicted by President Barack Obama's

TV Fee Disputes Produce Station Blackouts on Cable

Stay tuned for more fee disputes threatening local television stations on cable TV lineups.

Indian Conglomerate Buys W. Va. Coal Miner

A subsidiary of Indian conglomerate Essar Group has agreed to buy West Virginia-based Trinity Coal.

Fewer Job Cuts than Expected Keeps Jobless Rate at 9.7%

The unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent in February as employers shed 36,000 jobs, fewer than expected. The figures suggested the job market

Apple Delays iPad Launch

The much-anticipated iPad tablet computer from Apple Inc. will start hitting U.S. store shelves on April 3, slightly later than originally planned.

Akio Toyoda Rallies Workers, Dealers

Toyota President Akio Toyoda urged thousands of his employees Friday to work toward a new start and win back customer trust

Japan Won't Comply with Proposed Bluefin Tuna Ban

apan will not comply if a ban is imposed on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, prized by Japanese for sushi

China Projects Replacing Japan in 2010 As No. 2 Economy

China said Friday it will target economic growth of 8 percent this year, avoiding any slip after it rebounded last year from the world economic ...

TiVo's $300 Mil. Award vs. Dish Affirmed on Appeal

TiVo Inc. prevailed yet again in a long-running dispute with Dish Network Corp. over patents for digital video recorders, as a federal appeals court

Stocks Back in Black for 2010 Ahead of Jobs Data

Optimism about the government's February jobs report sent the Dow Jones industrials back into the black for 2010.

Working Chinese Left Out of Soaring Housing Market

The luxury apartment buildings Yang Xuhua passes on her way to work are a daily reminder of her own frustrated efforts to buy a home.

India Aims to Pass China As Fastest Growing Economy

Just how fast can India grow? Ask Manal Farooq, who can't make gloves quickly enough. "We are facing a major problem," said Farooq

Prius Complaints May Be Feeding on Themselves

Reports of sudden acceleration in the Toyota Prius have spiked across the country. But that doesn't mean there's an epidemic of bad gas pedals

Cable Operators Ask FCC to Stop Network Blackouts

The most recent showdown left millions of Cablevision Systems Corp. customers around New York without an ABC station at the start of the Academy Awards.

Japan Revises Down Q4 Growth Rate

Japan says its economy grew notably less in the fourth quarter than initial estimates.

Inventories Fell Despite 10th Monthly Sales Rise

Businesses trimmed inventories at the wholesale level again in January even though sales rose for a 10th consecutive month. The dip in inventories

Samsung, Panasonic Begin Selling 3-D TVs

Want to be the first one on your block with a 3-D television? It will cost you about $3,000.

Bailout Firms' Stocks Surge on Likely Sale by Gov't

Shares of four companies that have received huge infusions of taxpayer cash soared Tuesday after a report that the government would sell its stake

Asian Stocks Trade in Narrow Range Again

Asian stock markets were little moved in early trading Wednesday after investors in the U.S. seemed to pause and look back on a year of ...

Akio Toyoda Admits Fast Growth Hurt Worker Training

Toyota's training of workers to maintain quality control failed to keep up with the company's rapid growth, its president Akio Toyoda said in an interview

China February Exports, Imports Soar 45%

China's exports rose in February in a new sign of growing global demand that could help persuade officials to let the Chinese currency rise.

Success of Specials Masks TV's Shrinking Audience

While special events are doing very well for broadcasters — capped off by an Oscars telecast that was the most-watched entertainment program in five years ...

Cisco Debuts High-Speed Router for Internet Backbone

Cisco Systems Inc. announced Tuesday that it is upgrading one of its biggest pieces of networking hardware, a router that's used to power the most ...

Ford Launches First Subcompact Made for India

Ford Motor Co. launched its first made-for-India compact car Tuesday, as the U.S. automaker continues its push into fast-growing Asian markets.

China Passenger Car Sales Jumped 55% in February

China's passenger car sales climbed 55 percent from a year earlier in Feburary, despite a long national holiday, on strong demand for smaller cars and ...

Daimler Sells Off Stake in India's Tata Motors

German automaker Daimler AG says it has sold all of its shares in India's Tata Motors to various groups of investors through the capital markets.

Sony to Begin Selling 3-D TVs in June

Sony Corp. said Tuesday it will start selling 3-D televisions in June, joining a competitive industrywide push to convince consumers to embrace

China Resists Reading Politics into U.S. Debt Holdings

An official in charge of China's foreign reserves tried to ease American concern Tuesday about the political impact of its huge holdings of U.S. government ...

Ericsson Signs $1.8 Bil. Deals with China Mobile, Unicom

Swedish wireless equipment maker L.M. Ericsson AB says it has signed deals worth $1.8 billion with Chinese operators China Mobile and China Unicom.

Geely to Plow $900 Mil. More into Volvo

Chinese automaker Zhejiang Geely Holding Group expects to spend hundreds of millions of dollars beyond the $1.8 billion purchase price for Volvo

McDonald's Opens Hamburger U in Shanghai

China's newest university has no football field or fancy library. For inspiration, it looks not to Confucius, but to Ronald McDonald. But Shanghai's

World Stocks Gain on Brightening U.S. Outlook

World stocks rose Tuesday as the outlook for economic recovery brightened after upbeat consumer spending figures in the U.S. The euro also gained

Japan February Factory Output Broke Rising Trend

Cautious Japanese companies laid off more workers and hit the brakes on production in February, sending factory output down for the first time in a ...

iPad May Be Kindle's First Serious eBook Threat

Amazon.com, which has dominated the young but fast-growing electronic book market for the past few years with the Kindle