Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company, the giant buyout firm, plans to announce a new partnership with the Environmental Defense Fund.

In what analysts call a first, about one in five vehicles sold in the U.S. in April was a compact or subcompact car, as sales of S.U.V.?s and pickups dropped sharply.

The companies are in active merger talks, people involved said, and Microsoft is said to have increased its offer.

Reuters - Warren Buffett said on Saturday said the U.S. Federal Reserve avoided financial market 'chaos' in coordinating the March bailout of Bear Stearns Cos , which faced imminent bankruptcy before agreeing to be acquired by JPMorgan Chase & Co .

A study recently published in the Journal of Consumer Research finds that eBay bidders react in profound ways to a seller?s numerical ?reputation? on the site.

In the failed Microsoft-Yahoo marriage it was Google that played the odd dual role of unwitting matchmaker and self-interested spoiler.

Along with a $10.9 billion quarterly loss and 5,500 job cuts, the Swiss bank disclosed that U.S. officials were investigating whether it had helped clients evade U.S. taxes.

The drop coincided with a speech by the chairman of the S.E.C., Christopher Cox, who called for more stringent federal oversight of investment banks.

In the worst three months of the company?s 89-year history, American International Group lost $7.81 billion, primarily from bad investments in complex financial instruments.

Howard Socol, the chief executive of Barneys New York, is said to disagree sharply with the new owners of the chain over its strategy.

Reuters - Citigroup Inc is considering selling its Japanese consumer finance company CFJ KK or cutting the unit's business significantly as part of its plans to shed assets, Japanese daily Nikkei reported on Sunday.

The bęte noire of the Democrats has turned pundit, and his old nemeses do not always know what to make of it.

For the extra-tall business traveler, there are now some ways to find some relief, both in the air and on the ground.

Clear Channel agreed to a revised $17.9 billion takeover by two private equity firms after settling a long and often acrimonious dispute with the six banks that agreed to finance the deal.

As foreclosures mount and contributions to building associations shrink, condo owners find themselves nagging each other to pay their assessments and haggling over chores.

AP - Japan's economy grew at a stronger-than-expected 3.3 percent annual pace in the first quarter, racking up its third consecutive quarter of growth.

Engineering skill made Japan an economic superpower, but its young people are now choosing other careers.

President Hugo Chávez is intensifying state control of Venezuela?s economy through new takeovers of private companies.

The $51.8 billion takeover of Bell Canada, the largest leveraged buyout ever proposed, is the latest buyout to run into trouble since the credit market began tightening.

Netflix, which will begin marketing the device on Tuesday, will not charge customers beyond their normal subscription fee.

An analyst who heard scoffing when he predicted $100-a-barrel oil now expects the price to reach $200.

American Airlines is to become the first US airline to charge passengers to check in a first bag, as well as a second.

A sensor is being tested by the Federal Aviation Administration to detect debris that can damage airplane engines on takeoff or even lead to plane crashes.

Americans are giving up their gas guzzlers, making fewer trips to the mall and even riding public transportation.

Reuters - When CEO Takeo Fukui says he would spend $10 billion to rack up a Formula One victory for Honda, you get the sense that he really means it.

Browser developer Mozilla will soon release Firefox 3.0, which will feature a few tricks that could change the way people organize and find the Web sites they visit most frequently.

Protesters and police clash in South Korea amid mounting public anger at the relaxation of a ban on US beef.

A measure asks residents to give the go-ahead to turn 496 acres into a neighborhood of homes, research and office buildings, retail space and a new stadium.

Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket manufactured goods fell by a smaller-than-expected amount in April, with many sectors outside of transportation showing strength.

The final Harry Potter installment gave a much-needed jolt to the publishing industry last July, but publishers still struggled to sell more books overall than they did in 2006.

Iowa?s current job glut may be providing an advance view of things to come ? some predict the nation could be short of as many as 14 million skilled workers by 2020.