World 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...

Chrysler Group LLC will offer zero-percent financing or as much as $4,500 cash back on its 2010 vehicles in an effort to remain competitive and lure customers into showrooms after months of silence. Consumers can choose between zero-percent financing for...

After months of delay, government has finally announced that it will intervene in the wholesale prices of voice-based telecommunication services in Fiji, as a comprehensive study it commissioned has found that substantial market powers do exist in Fiji’s telecommunications market. ...

Akeel Sachak, global head of the consumer team at Rothschild, may get a seat at the table for this year's sweetest deal after all. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and UBS secured the coveted roles defending Cadbury against Kraft's $16.7 billion...

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

U.S. markets tipped lower Friday morning after a week of shaky economic data. The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. said interest rates for fixed-rate loans were at record lows this week, but the Mortgage Bankers Association countered with data showing...

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...