New York Times

Compared with the enormous political and psychological significance of Bin Laden’s death, the stock market reaction was relatively muted.

There are several reasons for extending the life of a video game console, but one reason predominates: cost.

The deal for the biopharmaceutical company comes just weeks after Cephalon rejected a $5.7 billion takeover bid from Valeant Pharmaceuticals.

The takeover would create one of the largest coal producers in the world and a powerhouse in the production of steel-making coal.

Nasdaq OMX and Intercontinental Exchange say they will take their $11 billion offer directly to shareholders.

Chrysler, the only Detroit automaker to lose money last year, earned $116 million in the quarter as it sold more cars at higher prices.

Once obscure, tilapia is now Americans’ favorite farmed fish. But critics point to environmental and nutritional drawbacks.

Ricoh, a maker of copiers, swung into action after the March earthquake and has nearly recovered. Japan says 64 percent of damaged factories have bounced back.

PPR, the French luxury group that controls Gucci and Puma, said on Monday that it had agreed to buy the sports accessory and clothing company Volcom for $607.5 million.

Officials want the military to use technologies like smartphones, video games and virtual worlds.

With gold and now silver prices high, consumers are unearthing ancient stashes to sell or pawn.

The government promised to raise an additional $17.5 billion by the end of 2013 via a crackdown on tax evasion, and indicated it could seek a second extension of its bailout loan repayment.

Dish and EchoStar will pay TiVo $500 million to settle a patent infringement suit involving TiVo’s video recording technology.

It is likely that the Union's budget will be frozen, perhaps until 2020. The main losers would be poorer, ex-communist member states in Central and Eastern Europe

To reach the huge under-30 market in China, advertisers are turning to the country’s young artists, musicians and designers to make companies’ brands cool.

The Obama administration is under pressure as it weighs whether to allow Shell to drill in the Arctic.

Regulators in the state are battling the clock, the courts and their own empty pockets to get a carbon market working within eight months.

An index measuring manufacturing growth fell in April compared with March, suggesting that the government's monetary tightening efforts had affected the economy more than expected.

The Chinese social networking site Renren is set to go public in the United States this week, and investors appear to be disregarding the red flags that are in the company's I.P.O. filings.

Hackers infiltrated the service, making off with detailed personal information and forcing a catastrophic system shutdown.