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Two of the organizations that help set technical policy for the Internet are strengthening their ties. World Wide Web Consortium, known as W3C, to aid its development efforts, the groups said...Both organizations promote what they call open technical standards, which...

ORD��EZ Chevron Corp. said its capital budget will be $21.6 billion next year, 5% lower than its 2009 budget, as the company focuses on exploration and development of oil and natural gas at the expense of refining. The shift comes...

House lawmakers Thursday approved $447 billion catch-all legislation wrapping together six unfinished must-pass spending bills into a single package...The bill lays out the budgets for around a dozen government departments and agencies for fiscal 2010, which began Oct. 1.

Chief Executive Robert Kelly's on-again, off-again candidacy for the top job at Bank of America Corp. Charlotte, N.C., bank's board nears a decision, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Kelly told his own directors this week that he...

A week ago, Tad Rivelle was managing some $30 billion, mostly in high-quality, broadly diversified bond portfolios. Now, he is also running $65 billion worth of complex mortgage securities and other bonds left behind by an ousted star bond manager....

Authorities on both sides of the Atlantic are moving to enact tough curbs on pay, in an indication that governments are taking increasingly aggressive steps to rein in compensation after the financial crisis. In the U.S., the Treasury Department's pay...

The hotel was also the location of John Lennon and Yoko Ono?s Bed-in for Peace protest against war. Hotels pride themselves on their reputations, service, location and design, but time and again, also find themselves embroiled in history, and often...

Moody�s Investors Service on Thursday issued a new sovereign report on Pakistan that explains its reasoning for the B3 rating and stable outlook. �Pakistan�s B3 rating reflects the stabilisation of economic and financial strength, albeit at low levels,� says Aninda...

The Sydney versus Melbourne rivalry extends to many things: beaches, culture, cuisine ... gang warfare? One of the southern state's most notorious underworld figures has come out, guns blazing, accusing Sydney gangsters of being disloyal. "There is a lot more...