General Electric has been a piston of the American economic engine for 125 years. It pioneered the light bulb and the jet engine. It survived the Great Depression, the dot-com crash and the 2008 ...

Editor's Note: Today, a Canadian payment processor named PacNet Services, Ltd. became one of the many targets of an unprecedented crackdown on global mail fraud, which was announced today by ...

A tiny porpoise finds itself in a battle for survival against the forces of fish mafias, drug cartels, and a Chinese black market. When US border agents raided the home of Song Shen Zhen, they ...

For the second time this week, the Dow plunged more than 1,000 points. And the stock market is now in a correction -- 10% off its record high just two weeks ago. Fears about the bond market ...

Over the past several days, two major American companies found themselves facing public relations disasters. A fatal engine failure aboard a Southwest (LUV) flight left the airline scrambling to ...

KFC has issued a high-profile, humorous apology for its chicken shortages in the UK. The fast-food chain used a full-page ad in British newspapers to apologize for shutting down hundreds of ...

For automakers, competition today is as likely to come from Silicon Valley as it is from Detroit, Japan or Germany. In a brave new world of self-driving cars and electric vehicles, Ford decided it ...

See how revenues and profits at America's 25 largest companies have risen and fallen over the past decade.

Just how big a deal is artificial intelligence? "AI is probably the most important thing humanity has ever worked on. I think of it as something more profound than electricity or fire." That's a ...

Longstanding doubts about the accuracy of China's economic data just got a big piece of supporting evidence: The governor of an entire province has admitted that local officials cooked the books ...

It was the year nothing seemed safe. Bombshell hacks were revealed one after another in 2017, from an Equifax breach that compromised almost half the country to global ransom campaigns that cost ...

Two of the world's best known beachwear brands are about to hit the surf together. The owner of Quiksilver is buying rival brand Billabong (BLLAF), the companies said Friday. The deal values ...