As we told you last week, the United States has about seventy thousand foundations for charitable giving.They are required to give away at least five ...
PepsiCo this week named Indra Nooyi to become its chief executive officer in October.The food and drink company is the world's second-largest soft...
The oil company British Petroleum has shut down a pipeline connecting the Prudhoe Bay oil fields in Alaska to the Trans-Alaska pipeline.The Prudhoe Ba...
But in June the battery in a Dell laptop computer caught fire during a conference at a hotel in Osaka, Japan.Pictures of the burning computer spread o...
How much information can people learn about you by seeing what you look for on the Internet?Too much, say some people with Internet service from Ameri...
In August, President Bush signed a bill making major changes to retirement plans operated by companies. These pension plans provide defined payments a...
On Wednesday, the United States Federal Reserve chose to keep its target interest rate unchanged at five-point-two-five percent.The Federal Open Marke...
Computer-maker Hewlett-Packard announced this week that the chairwoman of its board of directors will resign in January.How Patricia Dunn came to be f...
The United States and China plan to hold high-level meetings two times each year to discuss economic issues.The talks, called the U.S.-China Strategic...
Edmund Phelps has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Economics.Mister Phelps is a professor of economics at Columbia University in New York ...