United States of America Business News

Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. When Cindy Naugle took the witness stand in her lawsuit against tobacco company Philip Morris USA, she toted an oxygen bottle and had to pause a few minutes to catch her breath. Lawyers...

Barnes & Noble Inc said on Friday it had sold out of its newly-launched Nook electronic readers due to high demand -- a pre-holiday miscalculation that analysts said could boost sales of rival Amazon.com Inc's market leading Kindle. The news...

The charitable trust which controls the firm is urging it to seal a deal with the British confectioner, which has been in play since Kraft made an initial bid at the end of August...The Wall Street Journal has reported that...

QuinStreet Inc. plans an initial public offering of $250 million in common stock, according to a regulatory filing.

You better start looking through those old letters collecting dust in your attic. An auction house in New York racked up sales of over $3,2 Million dollars last night selling postage stamps. The stamps were from the collection of well...

Chrome operating system designed to be used with netbooks specifically made for the browser. One neat feature about the OS is that you turn on the PC and -- whoosh! -- you're immediately surfing the Internet...HPQ ) , Google hopes...

After a postal worker in Maryland identified a sex offender volunteering for the Operation Santa Program, the Postal Service says it is dropping the program. In 1954 the small town of North Pole, Alaska (yes it is a real place),...

True, it is not Thanksgiving yet, but holiday shopping season has begun. It seems it began even earlier this year - pre-Halloween! At any rate, 'tis the season for shopping, and as I've looked at my bank statements and expenses,...

A Congressional panel approved a bill that would put the traditionally independent U.S...Fed officials opposed the measure and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank sought to soften the blow by taking the central bank's interest rate decisions off the...