Cuba pledged to sign nearly US$450 million (?310 million) in contracts with firms from the United States and dozens of other countries as it opened its top annual trade event Monday.
Sun Microsystems Inc. swung to a first-quarter profit that matched Wall Street's expectations Monday, marking the server and software maker's first full year in the black since the dot-com meltdown.
Peru's largest mining union called its second, nationwide strike of the year on Monday, demanding new labor laws and better benefits for its 22,000 members.
A former executive of a Houston-based company serving the oil, gas and power industries has pleaded guilty to bribing Nigerian officials with more than $6 million (?4.14 million) to obtain a major gas pipeline project, the Justice Department announced Monday.
A jury awarded $3.3 million (?2.28 million) to six workers who claimed they were left sterile by a pesticide used at a banana plantation in Nicaragua operated by Dole Fresh Fruit Co.
Google Inc. wants to become as influential in the mobile market as it is on the Internet ?and the online search leader thinks it can do that without sticking its prized brand on a cell phone.
Raise your hand if you've heard of "Second Life,"police Lt. Charles Cohen asks a room of about 75 law enforcement officers from around the United States.
Conrad Black failed in his bid for a new federal fraud trial but the judge did provide a slight break to a lawyer who worked on some the former media mogul's million-dollar deals.
The United States is starting to look slow on the Internet. Examples abound of countries that have faster and cheaper broadband connections, and more of their population connected to them.
A low-cost spinning toothbrush. A plastic paint can with a spout. A kids'tricycle with a built-in squirt gun. Each started as an idea at a company run by two former college buddies and now operating out of a 76-year-old converted church.
A man who was a fugitive for 15 years in a securities fraud case pleaded guilty Monday, admitting that he misrepresented his ownership in and operation of multiple public companies.
The Air Force has indefinitely grounded all Boeing Co. F-15 fighter jets after a plane flown by the Missouri Air National Guard crashed last week during a training exercise.
