A consortium of investors led by Vornado Realty Trust planned to raise its bid for Equity Office Properties Group to more than $40 billion.

The popularity of the Wallstrip Web site is only the latest sign of the growing use of video on financial Web sites.

A new site, Do The Right Thing, allows users to make submissions criticizing industries and companies, which are then voted on by readers.

How?s your driving? Two electronic back-seat drivers were recently updated to keep even closer tabs on the behavior of both engine and driver.

Simon Property Group and Farallon Capital Management are planning a $1.56 billion cash bid for the outlet mall developer Mills Corporation.

An investigation has begun into whether Wall Street bank employees are leaking information about big trades to favored clients.

Apple?s chief said record companies should allow songs to be sold online without anticopying software, in part because the technology does not stop piracy.

The settlement by Deutsche Bank is a major shift in how it is dealing with the legal woes surrounding its tax shelter work.

Daniel M. Snyder, the entrepreneur and owner of the Washington Redskins, has agreed to acquire Johnny Rockets, the 1950s-inspired restaurant chain.

New hospice programs give patients medical comfort while allowing for sophisticated medical treatments.

AFP - China will send ripples through the financial world when it unleashes an investment company with more money under management than any mutual fund in existence, according to analysts.

A new experimental chip from Intel could house as many as 80 separate processing engines, or cores.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is promoting a legal standard that would make it harder for shareholders to win fraud lawsuits against companies and executives.

A combination of National, Alamo, Thrifty and Dollar in a deal valued at more than $3 billion is being discussed.

The lesson of this decade for automakers? Better to go it alone than bulk up through mergers and alliances.

A former globe-trotting investment manager remains jailed on one of the longest-running charges of contempt.

The vaccine is costly, and many say the rush toward mandatory inoculation could prove counterproductive.

Reuters - Federal safety investigators were headed to Valero Energy Corp.'s Sunray, Texas, refinery on Saturday, shut since Friday by an explosion in a residual crude unit.

Gov. Sarah Palin wants to deliver what many others have sought without success: a pipeline to transport natural gas from the state?s North Slope.

The company will begin payments ranging from $25 toward a future flight to a round-trip ticket to passengers kept waiting by the airline?s own mistakes.

Exxon Mobil announced it would abandon a project to produce clean-burning diesel in partnership with Qatar?s state-run oil and gas company.

Shares of NovaStar Financial, which makes loans to people with weak credit, fell almost 43 percent after the company announced a surprise loss.

Morgan Stanley will go it alone in India, lured by potential profits from the country?s quickly maturing corporate sector.

A decision by MTV to allow other Web sites to embed video clips from its own sites is drawing praise from users.

The TXU Corporation, which has been the bane of environmental groups, will commit to a broad menu of environmental measures.

Gary L. Crittenden, an American Express executive, has been named Citigroup?s chief financial officer, a post that puts him on a path to succeed Charles O. Prince III.

Proposals for EU-wide penalties for counterfeiting face a key vote in the European parliament.

Lawmakers are pushing to expand the U.S. guest worker program, but labor experts say workers suffer abuses.