The Agriculture and Justice Departments will work together to address concerns about large companies dominating seeds, milk and livestock.

Some current and former members of the Fed?s Consumer Advisory Council say a watchdog agency doesn?t belong in there.

The movie rental company canceled a competition to improve film recommendations after learning that customers could be identified from data it released.

Pfizer said two late-stage breast cancer trials involving its cancer drug Sutent failed to meet their goals and it has stopped a pivotal lung cancer trial of an experimental drug.

Komatsu, the Japanese heavy equipment maker, said Friday it expected sales in China to rise by half as the country?s 10 percent growth rate drives demand for resources like coal.

Apple awarded its chief operating officer a one-time $5 million bonus and 75,000 restricted stock units for leading the company while its chief executive was on medical leave.

The EU is putting the finishing touches to a multi-billion euro bail-out for Greece after weeks of crisis, senior officials tell the BBC.

Prosecutors in California are suing Toyota, claiming the carmaker sold hundreds of thousands of vehicles it knew had defects.

Shares initially gained after a rise in retail sales was reported, but slipped after a disappointing report on January?s business inventories.

Reuters - The German Finance Ministry said on Saturday it was not aware of any agreement by euro zone members to provide a multi-billion euro bailout package for heavily indebted Greece.

AFP - A California prosecutor has filed a civil lawsuit against Toyota, accusing the Japanese carmaker of intentionally hiding deadly defects from consumers.

AP - China's top parliamentary adviser said Saturday that keeping the economy stable and steady must remain the government's biggest priority this year.

Reuters - Kuwait's Investment Dar , which owns half of British carmaker Aston Martin, is applying for support under a government facility set up for troubled companies as part of a debt-restructuring plan.

AP - China plans to bid for contracts to build U.S. high-speed train lines and is stepping up exports of rail technology to Europe and Latin America, a government official said Saturday.

AP - Mao Zedong's grandson couldn't have put it more simply. China's biggest challenge? 'Economic development,' he said, as the nation's most public political meetings end with sweeping goals to expand growth — and helping more Chinese enjoy it.

Reuters - Euro zone finance ministers are likely to agree on Monday on the principles and parameters of financial help to Greece, if it is required, but leave out any sums until Athens asks for them, an EU source said.

Reuters - UBS is considering possibly returning to its commodities business this year, some of which it sold during the financial crisis, a Swiss newspaper said on Saturday, citing the co-head of UBS's investment bank.

Reuters - Kuwait's Investment Dar , which owns half of British carmaker Aston Martin, is applying for support under a government facility set up for troubled companies as part of a debt restructuring.

The Information Commission warns online shoppers to be vigilant against agreeing to data-sharing links.

AFP - Investment Dar, the troubled Kuwaiti firm that owns half of luxury British carmaker Aston Martin, said on Saturday it has filed for legal protection under Kuwait's financial stability law.

Long accused of overpromising and underdelivering, commercial trade schools are under fire because they are attracting more students and more Pell grants.

Steve Jobs of Apple and Eric Schmidt of Google, once friends and allies, are now engaged in a gritty battle over the future of mobile computing and cellphones.

During the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, men were much more likely than women to sell their stock at market lows, a new study has found.

When Jana Skewes had cancer, she kept her own medical records. Then she helped start a company that would do such record-keeping for millions of people.

After a workplace argument, try to put yourself in your opponent?s shoes, a consultant advises.

So-called mommy blogs were once little more than glorified electronic scrapbooks. Now they have recently evolved into a cultural force to be reckoned with.

Even if your college days are a distant memory, it?s possible to travel on a student discount over spring break this year.

Attacks on members of the media along a long stretch of the border with the U.S. have resulted in what amounts to a news blackout.

With a larger television contract a strong possibility, the idea of increasing the number of teams to 96 in the tournament has gained momentum.

Mr. Pitman, who was conservative in his approach, helped his institution grow through acquisitions and a merger with TSB.

In the Wind Hellas deal in Greece, the Texas Pacific Group and Apax Partners came out on top. Some who bought the company?s debt have not.

As C.E.O., Kip Tindell has based the foundation principles of the Container Store on collected snippets of wisdom.

One real estate broker has this advice for prospective homebuyers: ?Predicting interest rates is a whole lot easier than predicting home prices.?

Like it or not, more cost control looks likely to flourish in any health plan, Tyler Cowen says.

Fiber optic links may soon help consumer gadgets and computers communicate with each other at ultrahigh speeds.

When a Flip video camera won?t connect with a Mac laptop, a new father inadvertently embarks on a customer-service adventure.

Music in the cloud, an Internet music service that everyone anticipates but which has not yet caught on, would cause problems for the music industry itself.

Re: ?Mom, Apple Pie and Mortgages,? in which Robert J. Shiller said the nation might look at new methods of housing finance.

A new ESPN documentary, ?Winning Time,? profiles the playoff battles between the Knicks and Pacers during the 1990s.

Efforts have begun to make Illinois in general and Chicago in particular a powerhouse of biotechnology companies like areas on both coasts.