HSBC's Swiss private bank Thursday issued a public apology to its clients for the theft of 15,000 sets of client data, allegedly by Herve Falciani, a former

Mexican telecoms magnate Carlos Slim Helu has been named the world’s richest man, with a net worth of $53.5 billion, The Times of London reported late

Bank of America Corp. apologized Wednesday after its local contractor entered the home of a mortgage borrower when she was away, cut off utilities, padlocked

Bank of America Corp. plans to announce Wednesday that it is eliminating $35 overdraft fees on debit card purchases as the bank tries to stay ahead of a

Toyota Motor Corp. will recall 2004 through 2009 models of its Prius hybrid to prevent accelerator pedals from becoming trapped, The Wall Street Journal

Internet giant Google is testing a new television search service with Dish Network.

News Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch Tuesday urged leaders in the United Arab Emirates and the wider Middle East to encourage greater press

A broke former New York Life employee was busted on charges he tried to extort $200,000 from the insurance firm by threatening to smear it with a spam attack

Lindsay Lohan is suing New York financial company E-Trade, insisting that a boyfriend-stealing, "milkaholic" baby used in its latest commercial is modeled

The U.S. Department of Transportation said Monday it fined US Airways $40,000 for not disclosing full ticket prices on its Web site.

The United States is to unveil a new $100 bill in April aimed at foiling counterfeiters, the government said Friday.

Customers who have used credit cards at a Dowtown Los Angeles hotel should check to make sure they have not been a victim of identity theft due to a data

Canadian group Tim Hortons announced an ambitious expansion plan Friday to open 900 new coffee and donut shops in the United States and Canada within three

Despite the recession and double-digit unemployment, failed background checks, disinterest and other factors are making it difficult for the Census Bureau to

Some people are taking their money out of the big banks because they say they're sick of the bailouts, the sky-high fees, the crazy credit card rates, and so

Federal regulators filed suit Thursday against a self-proclaimed psychic who allegedly scammed $6 million by conning suckers into believing that his

A California lawyer has filed a class action lawsuit against French wine producers and a U.S. importer over the sale of millions of bottles of wine falsely

Starbucks and some other chain stores in the U.S. are finding themselves caught in the middle of a firearms debate, as gun-control advocates go up against a

If people want to have the most ideal job, they should hire themselves. A new survey found that business owners were most likely to describe their jobs as

Rupert Murdoch threw down the gauntlet to The New York Times on Tuesday, announcing plans to launch a New York edition of The Wall Street Journal next month.
 

Nissan Motors said Wednesday it will recall nearly 540,000 vehicles worldwide, most of them in the United States, due to brake pedal defects and faulty fuel

Ford Motor Co. posted a 43 percent jump in February U.S. light-vehicle sales on Tuesday, topping rival automaker General Motors Co. in monthly sales for the

Getting an aisle seat will cost flyers extra if they choose to fly Virgin Atlantic Airways. New York commodities trader David Stewart learned last week that he

The latest problem with Toyota vehicles involves oil hoses that could leak. The company says it's repairing more than 1.6 million vehicles around the world.

General Motors announced it would recall 1.3 million cars in North America over a potentially faulty power steering motor, following a federal probe into the

A consumer watchdog group filed a lawsuit Monday against California's largest for-profit health insurer on behalf of policyholders, claiming they were pushed

A camera phone application that finds names and addresses of total strangers was blasted as a "stalker's dream," The Sun reported Monday.

Shares of New York Times Co. jumped on Monday on market rumors that Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim will seek to acquire the company.

An iPhone app launched this week could have saved Tiger Woods a lot of trouble, Time reported Friday on its Web site.

Late Thursday, in an embarrassing glitch for Facebook that raised questions about privacy on the site, some users of the social-networking service began

Vogue readers with iPhones are getting another toy to play with this month. The magazine is launching an application that looks like a fun shopping and styling

The number of people filing initial claims for state unemployment benefits jumped 22,000 to a seasonally-adjusted 496,000 in the week ended Feb. 20, the Labor

The economy is still in the throws of a recession, but a new survey indicates many of the companies that suspended matching contributions to 401K retirement

U.S. stocks ended a two-day losing streak Wednesday as comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke favoring low interest rates outweighed bleak housing

Several lawmakers on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which is holding a hearing Wednesday on the Toyota recalls, have Toyota factories and offices in their

Standard & Poor's has downgraded Los Angeles' credit rating as the city struggles to close a $200-million budget shortfall.

Consumer confidence fell sharply in February as Americans turned more pessimistic about job prospects and the U.S. economy, the Conference Board reported

Toyota battled Tuesday to seize back the initiative over a worldwide rash of safety recalls as the Japanese automaker, heading into a showdown in Congress,

Continental Airlines is cutting 600 reservation agent jobs as more customers move towards booking flights online.

A sweeping credit card law that took effect Monday has been widely anticipated by consumers who believe banks have been taking advantage of them for too long.

The 10 branches of La Jolla Bank, including two in Orange County and one in Beverly Hills, will reopen Monday as branches of Pasadena-based OneWest Bank after

Apple has been urged to provide more specific guidelines on suitable content for iPhone applications after it pulled one that had apparently been downloaded by

Parents all across the country will be happy to hear this. Ford has come up with a way to control how teens drive. It's called "my key" and it puts the parents

Embattled Japanese automaker Toyota pledged to learn from its mistakes in full-page advertisements that ran Thursday in four major U.S. newspapers amid anger

A class action lawsuit filed in San Jose, Calif., federal court accused Google of breaching privacy laws with its new social networking service Buzz, it was

Burger King Holdings Inc. and Starbucks Corp. said Tuesday they agreed to offer Starbucks' "Seattle's Best Coffee" in about 7,250 Burger King restaurants in

Toyota's quality control executive says the automaker is looking into possible power-steering problems with the Corolla subcompact, the world's best-selling

The government ordered Toyota to turn over documents related to its massive recalls Tuesday, pressing to see how long the automaker knew of safety defects

Ford Motor Co. on Tuesday said it will halve the number of shifts at a plant in Michigan this summer to better match its production capacity to demand in a

To the uninitiated, it may seem that "social networking" is only for executives who want to chat about their bond portfolios—another name for the kind of

A widow has filed suit against Toyota in Los Angeles federal court, seeking compensation for the death of her husband in an alleged sudden unintended

The Great Airline Fee Frenzy (GAFF, some might call it) continued this week with American Airlines ending the chance for regular passengers to standby for

Toyota says it's planning a new level of disclosure about car problems that would go beyond what the automaker is legally required to reveal as it seeks to

Ford Motor Co.will take back its spot as the second-biggest automaker in the U.S. this year in the wake of Toyota Motor Corp.'s damaging string of recalls,

Owen Van Natta, the chief executive officer of Beverly Hills-based MySpace, stepped down after just nine months on the job.

Britax is recalling their "Blink" umbrella strollers due to risk of fingertip amputations and lacerations.  The company is voluntarily recalling 14,000 units

Prices on Toyota's vehicles in the U.S. have understandably slipped in light of the recalls, but rivals have also slashed their prices to capitalize on a rare

Office romance is coming out of the closet with some 67 per cent of employees saying they see no need to hide their office relationships, up from 54 per cent

Honda have expanded a previous recall to include an additional 378,758 vehicles in the U.S., saying it is aware of 12 incidents related to the possibility that

In public, Toyota is running apologetic TV ads and vowing to win back customers' trust. Behind the scenes, the besieged carmaker is trying to learn all it can

More than 378,000 Honda vehicles have been recalled, expanding a recall that began in November 2008 over concerns that airbag inflators could rupture and cause

Here's a list of Toyota car and truck models recalled over potentially sticky gas pedals and other problems.

While Wall Street greed gets the blame for causing the Great Recession, small businesses are becoming the next culprit of hard times.

State Farm Insurance Company warned U.S. safety regulators of problems with the accelerator system of Toyota Motor vehicles in 2007, according to Tuesday's

Toyota on Monday night announced it will conduct a voluntary safety recall of approximately 133,000 2010 Prius vehicles and 14,550 Lexus 2010 HS 250h vehicles

Toyota Motor Corp. was sued in Los Angeles federal court for failing to disclose to investors that there was a major design defect in the automaker's

The Blue Book value of used Toyotas has been reduced again as the Japanese carmaker's troubles persist. Kelley Blue Book said Monday it was lowering the resale

Super Bowl XLIV broke a 27-year-old all-time U.S. ratings record set by the comedy series MASH, CBS officials said Monday.

The 93-year-old Pasadena Playhouse rang down the curtain after Sunday's final performance of "Camelot." A $3-million debt has forced the historic theater to

Outstanding debts held by U.S. consumers fell for a record 11th month in a row in December, led by falling balances on their credit cards, the Federal Reserve

Weight Watchers International Inc. on Friday settled a dispute with Jenny Craig Inc. involving ads the diet company called "false and misleading." Jenny Craig

Toyota president Akio Toyoda on Friday offered a heartfelt apology for the recall of millions of cars around the world due to faulty accelerator pedals but

Toyota said Friday that it was still considering whether to recall its popular Prius and luxury Lexus hybrids, following reports the automaker is set to pull

A lawsuit filed Thursday against Toyota seeks to expand the automaker's recall of millions of vehicles to fix sticking accelerators, saying the death of a

The Transportation Department opened an investigation Thursday into brake problems in the 2010 Prius, the latest in a series of safety troubles at Toyota that

First-time claims for state unemployment benefits rose to the highest level since mid-December, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

A Toyota Motor Corp. executive said Thursday the automaker had already modified in January the breaking system design of its popular Prius hybrid model, and

Toyota acknowledged that it has begun fixing problems with the brakes in its prized Prius, but remains undecided about a recall, adding to the catalog of

TOKYO (AP) — Toyota Motor Corp. has been hit by over 100 complaints in the U.S. and Japan about brake problems with the popular Prius hybrid, the latest in a

American International Group has agreed to cut employee bonuses by $20 million but still plans to pay $100 million in bonuses on Wednesday, according to

Americans were drinking a bit more -- and a bit cheaper -- liquor last year, according to data released Tuesday by the industry's main trade group.

A Toyota executive says the unprecedented scale of the gas pedal problem means damage to the company's sales may be greater than previous recalls.

Madonna is so nuts for coconut water that she invested about US$1.5 million in one of the leading makers of the drink, which has taken Hollywood and New York

Some companies are sitting out the Super Bowl ad game this year, citing the down economy, but others believe there has never been a better time to get in the

Toyota Motor said it had figured out how to fix a problem with sticky accelerators in millions of its vehicles, and was due to begin making repairs starting

Federal stimulus dollars are supposed to help boost the economy, and create jobs and a more stable consumer environment. But recent news out of Maine is

Networking? Check! Resume updated? Check! Treating the job search as a full-time job? Check! You've followed all the advice, but still no job prospects.

The Los Angeles Times print edition will shrink again Monday. The paper is consolidating printing operations at its Los Angeles Ninth Street plant, and is

Toyota Motor Corp. plans to resume sales of eight recalled models in the United States as soon as the third week of February, Reuters reported on Friday,

In a peculiar move, Anheuser-Busch InBev has decided to let consumers decide whether or not it airs a Clydesdale commercial in the Super Bowl.

Honda announced a voluntary worldwide recall of 646,000 compact cars Friday so it could examine window switches that can overheat if exposed to liquid,

Toyota's still-expanding recalls over faulty gas pedals and an unprecedented decision to stop selling and building some of its top-selling models in the U.S.

Ford Motor swung to its first annual profit since 2005, helping the automaker further distance itself from its troubled U.S. rivals while stoking consumer buzz

China's product safety watchdog said Thursday that Toyota would recall over 75,000 automobiles in the Asian nation, extending a program that already affects

Democrats and Republicans alike pummeled Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Wednesday over his role in the $180 billion bailout of insurance giant AIG

General Motors Co. has halted sales of about two dozen Pontiac Vibe cars as part of Toyota Motor Co.'s recall of 2.3 million U.S. vehicles, Dow Jones Newswires

Apple unveiled its highly anticipated tablet device called the “iPad” Wednesday at an event in San Francisco.

Sales of new U.S. homes fell 7.6 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 342,000 in December from 370,000 in November after a popular tax credit for