Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia said Wednesday that Ms. Stewart had been elected nonexecutive chairwoman of the company she founded.

The earned-income tax credit helps lifts some families out of poverty, but for others earning a bit more, it has the impact of a tax that discourages additional work, an economist writes.

The British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline has changed the terms of its proposed takeover offer for Human Genome Sciences in response to the poison pill adopted by the biotechnology company.

If the SAFE Banking Act becomes law, it would, at best, result in more banks "going on welfare" during the inevitable next banking crisis, writes a lawyer specializing in finance deals.

What can we afford to do about the financial industry? Measuring what huge financial institutions do is difficult, but their being oversize seems to add little to society.

All sorts of private Internet communications were casually scooped up as Google Street View cars photographed the world’s streets.

The health claims of Pom Wonderful were unsubstantiated, a judge ruled.

Two regulators confirm reports that their agencies had opened investigations into JPMorgan's trading debacle and said they were weighing whether it would reshape rules for Wall Street.

With low production costs, cheap labor and a flat tax rate, Bulgaria offered an ideal opportunity for Great Wall Motor, which now builds three models in the country.

If the Glass-Steagall Act had still been in effect in 2008, it probably would not have prevented the financial crisis.

Asana, created by a Facebook co-founder, Dustin Moskovitz, is a shared to-do list for a company looking to make managing tasks at work a little easier.

Whatever Mark Zuckerberg earned before marrying his college sweetheart is still solely his property afterward.

Much of the blame for Facebook's initial public offering debacle is landing on Morgan Stanley, the lead banker.

The state is looking into whether two insurance firms effectively bought their dominant positions by paying kickbacks to banks disguised as commissions or other business.

A judge said that RIM and Apple had not violated Kodak’s patent for digital image-preview technology, because the patent was invalid.

Much of the blame for Facebook's initial public offering debacle is landing on Morgan Stanley, the lead banker.

According to matrimonial law experts, whatever Mark Zuckerberg earned before his marriage Saturday is still solely his property afterward.

A forecasting firm says that all but eight states will regain their prerecession job levels by 2015.

"He's not an insider trader. He never defrauded anybody. He never cheated anybody," said a lawyer for Rajat K. Gupta, once one of America's most prominent businessmen. "He doesn't belong in this courtroom."

A judge with the National Labor Relations Board found that Target managers had intimidated workers and violated federal labor laws.

As steady full-time jobs with benefits are increasingly elusive, more men are reaching for a chance at the American dream in female-dominated occupations.

In light of JPMorgan Chase’s multibillion-dollar loss, a look at how individuals can manage risk in their own investments with trade-offs and moderation.

The British bank Barclays said on Monday that it planned to sell its stake in the investment management firm BlackRock, which it valued at $6.1 billion.

Chinese regulators attached a big condition: that Google’s Android operating system for mobile devices remain available at no cost for the next five years.

A law professor, Eugene Volokh, argues in a paper that Google is a publisher, with First Amendment protection. But sometimes it benefits Google to be seen as a mere connector.

At Facebook, ground zero for the nouveau tech riche in Silicon Valley, peer pressure dictates that consumption be kept on the down low.

At Facebook, ground zero for the nouveau tech riche in Silicon Valley, peer pressure dictates that consumption be kept on the down low.

Years of foot-dragging and brinkmanship have prepared the currency union for life without Greece.

Facebook's initial public offering has been looming over the tech landscape for what feels like forever. But while Facebook may be by far the biggest I.P.O. to come out of Silicon Valley, history will ...

Facebook could be the next Google, whose shares now trade at more than six times their offering price, but it could also suffer the fate of Zynga, Groupon and other start-ups that came out of the gate ...

Insurance.com lets you calculate the anticipated increase in your insurance premium after getting a ticket.

The scope of an investigation into foreign bribery issues seemed to have widened at the retailer, which reported higher-than-expected first-quarter earnings.

The lofty valuation for a service that expanded into the United States only last year underscores how fast the online music start-up, built on top of Facebook's social network, has grown.