NEW YORK – Amazon is slashing the price of its Fire smartphone, a day before Apple is expected to unveil its latest version of the iPhone. The online retailer says the Fire with 32 gigabytes of memory will now cost 99 cents when customers sign a two-year ...

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 21, 2010 file photo, oil can be seen in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, as a large plume of smoke rises from fires on BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig. An April 20, 2010 ...

British airline Virgin Atlantic is to beef up its core transatlantic services and stop flying to Tokyo, Mumbai, Vancouver and Cape Town, to help it try to reach a level of profitability which has proved elusive for the past 15 years. The airline, which is 51 percent ...

Ukraine called on Friday for full membership in NATO, its strongest plea yet for Western military help, after accusing Russia of sending in armored columns that have driven back its forces on behalf of pro-Moscow rebels. Russian President Vladimir Putin, ...

Argentina's MerVal stock index <.MERV> reversed losses and rose 5.1 pct on Tuesday on increased optimism about last-minute debt talks in New York aimed at avoiding an Argentine default, traders said. Argentine negotiators were expected to hold further ...

McDonald's (MCD) and Yum Brands (YUM) are facing a fresh scandal featuring some not-so-fresh meat. Chinese regulators are reportedly alleging that a local meat supplier for McDonald's and Yum, whose brands include KFC and Pizza Hut, was found ...

Shares of Reynolds American stumbled in premarket trading Monday in the first trading since a Florida jury awarded $23.6 billion in punitive damages against its R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. The huge damage figure, which was awarded to the widow of a ...

Shares of Reynolds American stumbled in premarket trading Monday in the first trading since a Florida jury awarded $23.6 billion in punitive damages against its R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. The huge damage figure, which was awarded to the widow of a ...

The U.S. economy contracted at a much steeper pace than previously estimated in the first quarter, but there are indications that growth has since rebounded strongly. The Commerce Department said on Wednesday gross domestic product fell at a 2.9 percent ...

BlackBerry (BBRY) surprised Wall Street with a net profit in its fiscal first quarter, although sales continued to lag as the smartphone maker struggles to attract users. BlackBerry said Thursday it earned $23 million, or four cents a share, compared with a loss of ...

On Tuesday, Microsoft will end technical support and security updates to the Windows XP operating system. The company will also stop supporting Office 2003 software. Dave Aitel, the CEO of security firm Immunity, says Microsoft's decision has major security ...

It was a bad day for technology, as investors unloaded some of the sector's biggest names: Netflix (NFLX), Facebook (FB), Google (GOOG) and Amazon (AMZN) were all down sharply. The Nasdaq Composite fell 50 points, while the Dow and S&P 500 closed ...

Shares of Verisign (VRSN) slumped more than 7.5% Monday after the U.S. government said it would drop its oversight of the Internet domain name controlling body ICANN. Wall Street's Cowen cut Verisign to “market perform” from “outperform” on the news, ...

You have to hand it to Russian President Vladimir Putin; He tames wild animals shirtless, flies fighter jets (with a shirt on) and loves to roundhouse an audience with his mad Judo skills. If all this wasn't enough, in December 2010 he played piano to raise ...

BEIJING – The head of China's top economic planning body voiced confidence on Wednesday that the world's second-largest economy would meet its growth targets, though he acknowledged some risk factors including the red-hot property sector.

BEIJING – China will target 17.5 percent annual growth in fixed-asset investment and 14.5 percent in retail sales growth in 2014, the country's top economic planning agency said on Wednesday. In a report unveiled at the annual parliament meeting, the ...

I've been asked many times recently if I would buy Ukrainian bonds now. The short answer is 'no'. This story is far from over. There are multiple scenarios that could play out in Ukraine that would be detrimental to bond holders and the risk of an eventual ...

Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles tried to assure customers on Wednesday, saying he is “working very hard” to find a solution to a number of problems as the Bitcoin exchange remains down for the third straight day and transactions continue to be halted.