In an effort to improve communication with doctors and patients on prescription drug safety, the government Friday began posting a list of medications under investigation f...

Continental Airlines Inc. said Friday it is charging some coach customers $15 for a first checked bag, matching a similar fee imposed by most other major U.S. carriers....

HUMBLE START: Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated Google on Sept. 7, 1998, after unsuccessfully trying to sell their search engine for a couple of million dollars. They...

When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their beli...

Oil prices sank below $106 a barrel Friday as a jump in the U.S. unemployment rate signaled to traders that Americans might keep paring back their energy use to save money....

Wall Street slid for a second straight session Friday on news that the economy shed jobs for the eighth straight month in August and at a faster-than-expected pace.T...

Nokia Corp. warned Friday its third-quarter global market share will decline from second-quarter levels, sending its U.S. shares tumbling more than 10 percent.In Jul...

A record 9 percent of American homeowners with a mortgage were either behind on their payments or in foreclosure at the end of June, as damage from the housing crisis conti...

National Semiconductor Corp., which makes chips that regulate power and perform other functions in gadgets, reported Friday its first-quarter profit fell 7 percent from a y...

German industrial production fell 1.8 percent in July compartede with June, with the three main categories of output showing declines, the ministry of the economy said Frid...

Selling swept across Wall Street for a second straight session Friday on news that the economy shed jobs for the eighth straight month in August and at a faster-than-expect...

Oil prices slipped Friday but recovered from earlier lows as the dollar weakened against the euro and unemployment data deflated hopes of a late-year economic recovery in t...

Russia's number one cell operator MTS said Friday it has signed a deal with Apple Inc. to sell the iPhone in Russia.MTS, which becomes the last of the country's "big...

Troubled by the Bear Stearns debacle, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is advocating a new way of dealing with government bailouts of companies whose sudden c...

Wall Street fell sharply Friday after the government's much-anticipated employment report showed weaker-than-expected job growth and a rise in the unemployment rate. The Na...

The nation's unemployment rate zoomed to a five-year high of 6.1 percent in August as employers slashed 84,000 jobs, dramatic proof of the mounting damage a deeply troubled...

Wall Street looked to extend its sharp decline Friday after the government disappointed investors with news that the economy shed jobs for the eighth straight month in Augu...

Nokia Corp. warned Friday its third-quarter global market share will decline from second-quarter levels, sending its U.S. shares tumbling more than 11 percent in premarket ...

World stock markets fell sharply Friday in the wake of a sell-off on Wall Street amid mounting concerns about a slumping U.S. economy and its impact on global growth.Report: Samsung working to acquire SanDisk

Samsung Electronics Co. is pursuing an acquisition of U.S. computer memory card maker SanDisk Corp., a South Korean online business newspaper reported Friday.Both Sa...

Specialty insurer Assurant Inc. has agreed to acquire the warranty management business of General Electric Co.'s appliance and consumer electronics division.Under th...

Shares at Informa PLC, the London-based publisher of Lloyd's List maritime newspaper, fell almost 6 percent on Friday after the company rejected a reduced $3.4 billion take...

Wall Street looked to extend its losses on Friday, with investors worried that the government's August jobs report will indicate that the economy is in recession.Inv...

Oil prices dropped below $107 a barrel Friday as the dollar continued to gain on the euro and investors waited to see if OPEC moves to restrict output next week amid a two-...

Asian stock markets plunged Friday in the wake of a sell-off on Wall Street amid mounting concerns about a slumping U.S. economy and its impact on global growth. European s...

Honda is bringing back the defunct Insight nameplate for a hybrid-only vehicle planned for the Japanese, European and North American markets early next year, as the automak...

The top business news from The Associated Press for the morning of Friday, Sept. 5, 2008:Asian markets plunge after Wall Street sell-offTOKYO (AP) — Asian s...

There's a mushroom boom in the wet woods of the Northeast this summer.Hillsides bloom with black trumpets. Disc-shaped mushrooms called artist's conch sprout from tr...

Tropical Storm Hanna was accelerating early Friday as it made its way toward the United States' southeast coast.The National Hurricane Center in Miami said only slig...

Asian stock markets plunged Friday after more bad news on the U.S. economy, a vital export market, triggered a broad sell-off on Wall Street overnight.Disappointing ...

Oil prices were steady Friday in Asia below $108 a barrel as investors wait to see if OPEC moves to restrict output at its meeting next week amid a two-month plunge in pric...

Asian stock markets plunged Friday after more bad news on the U.S. economy, a vital export market, triggered a broad sell-off on Wall Street overnight.Disappointing ...

Representatives from Boeing Co. and the machinists union met with a federal mediator Thursday as the clock ticked on an unusual two-day contract extension after union produ...

Representatives from Boeing Co. and the machinists union met with a federal mediator Thursday as the clock ticked on an unusual two-day contract extension after union produ...

Lloyd's of London, the world's biggest insurance market, signaled its intention to push its business in emerging markets in Asia and Latin America and oil rich countries in...