NEW YORK (AP) - FireEye Inc. said Thursday it has acquired Mandiant Corp., the firm that linked years of cyberattacks against U.S. companies to a secret Chinese military unit.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The new year brought relief for Americans who previously had no health insurance or were stuck in poor plans, but it also led to confusion after the troubled rollout of the federal health care reforms sent a crush of late applications to overloaded government agencies.
NEW YORK (AP) - Total U.S. money market mutual fund assets rose $24.04 billion to $2.719 trillion for the week that ended Tuesday, according to the Investment Company Institute.
NEW YORK (AP) - The National Retail Federation is appealing a $7.25 billion settlement over credit card swipe fees, saying the deal won't stop fees from soaring in the future.
NEW YORK (AP) - FireEye Inc. says it has acquired Mandiant Corp., which linked years of cyberattacks attacks against U.S. companies to a secret Chinese military unit.
Key barometers in the Treasury market late Thursday, compared with late Tuesday. Price changes in the 10-year note and 30-year bond are per $100 invested:
NEW YORK (AP) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says it's considering taking legal action against "responsible parties" after DNA testing showed traces of fox meat in the donkey meat it sold in China.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The new year brought relief for Americans who previously had no health insurance or were stuck in poor plans, but it also led to confusion after the troubled rollout of the federal health care reforms sent a crush of late applications to overloaded government agencies.
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Labor Department watchdog has recommended ending a practice that allows reporters to review a key unemployment report before it is made public.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - One of the country's largest producers of ammunition magazines for guns is leaving Colorado and moving operations to Wyoming and Texas because of new state laws that include restrictions on how many cartridges a magazine can hold.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The California Supreme Court granted a law license Thursday to a man who has been living in the U.S. illegally for two decades, a ruling that advocates hope will open the door to immigrants seeking to enter other professions such as medicine, nursing and accounting.
DALLAS (AP) - American Airlines says more than 60,000 employees voted and a majority want to paint red, white and blue horizontal stripes on the tails of all AA planes.
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) - A south Georgia bank director accused of losing millions of investor dollars before vanishing was homeless and working odd jobs before his arrest earlier this week, a U.S. marshal told a federal judge Thursday.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - One of the country's largest producers of ammunition magazines for guns is leaving Colorado and moving operations to Wyoming and Texas because of new state laws that include restrictions on how many cartridges a magazine can hold.
DENVER (AP) - The second day of the nation's first fully legal marijuana industry was just a bit less frenzied than the first. Rather than hundred-deep lines outside the limited number of licensed retail shops, the queues held several dozen.
SEATTLE (AP) - Boeing's contract proposal to machinists in the Puget Sound region would likely increase some workers' annual base salaries to more than $100,000 in the coming years.
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) - A U.S. marshal says the south Georgia bank director accused of losing millions of investor dollars before vanishing was homeless before his arrest earlier this week.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Following a string of explosive accidents, federal officials said Thursday that crude oil being shipped by rail from the Northern Plains across the U.S. and Canada may be more flammable than traditional forms of oil.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A new study has found that people who were given health coverage through Medicaid used the emergency room 40 percent more than others who weren't able to join the program.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A new study has found that previously uninsured people enrolled recently in Medicaid went to the emergency room 40 percent more frequently than others, often seeking help for conditions that could be treated for less in a doctor's office or an urgent care clinic.
NEW YORK (AP) - What stresses small business owners the most? Our conversations with them and the research we come across suggest it's a lack of clarity. Well, there's no small business crystal ball - at least one we are aware of - but if one existed, here's a look at what it might reveal for 2014:
NEW YORK (AP) - Snapchat, the disappearing-message service popular with young people, has been quiet following a security breach that allowed hackers to collect the usernames and phone numbers of millions of its users.
NEW YORK (AP) - In a story Dec. 31 about the stock market's 2013 performance, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Aberdeen Asset Management has $3 billion in assets under management. The company has about $325 billion in assets under management. The $3 billion is the amount Aberdeen oversees in U.S. stocks.
NEW YORK (AP) - Snapchat, the disappearing-message service popular with young people, has been quiet following a security breach that allowed hackers to collect the usernames and phone numbers of millions of its users.
CONFIRMING THE OBVIOUS: Dialing, texting or reaching for a cellphone while driving raises the risk of a crash or near-miss, especially for younger drivers, a study says.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration approved fewer first-of-a-kind drugs in 2013 compared with 2012, when new drug approvals reached a 15-year high.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration approved 27 first-of-a-kind drugs in 2013, down from 39 new medications in 2012, which was a 15-year high.
NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. stock market got 2014 off to a cautious start Thursday. Major indexes declined in early trading after ending last year at record levels. Trading has been quiet this week with many investors on vacation.
A new fund has been created to help Ohio State University turn technologies into commercial applications that in turn will spur economic growth and create jobs in the state. OSU and the Ohio Third Frontier program have pooled $1 million to create the Technology Concept Fund, which is being managed by TechColumbus.
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. construction spending rose in November at the strongest pace in more than four years, driven by solid gains in home construction and commercial projects.
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. manufacturing grew at a healthy pace in December as factories stepped up hiring and received more orders. The expansion suggests solid growth at the end of the year.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits dipped 2,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 339,000, evidence that layoffs are low and hiring will likely remain steady.
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits dipped 2,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 339,000, evidence that layoffs are low and hiring will likely remain steady.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits dipped 2,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 339,000, evidence that layoffs are low and hiring will likely remain steady.
NEW YORK (AP) - Macy's and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia have reached a settlement agreement related to a breach-of-contract lawsuit involving J.C. Penney.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found a way to allow people in one place to interact with three-dimensional versions of people or objects in a different location.
A sophisticated, real-world study confirms that dialing, texting or reaching for a cellphone while driving raises the risk of a crash or near-miss, especially for younger drivers. But the research also produced a surprise: Simply talking on the phone did not prove dangerous, as it has in other studies.
DENVER (AP) - Crowds were serenaded by live music as they waited for the nation's first legal recreational pot shops to open. They ate doughnuts and funnel cakes as a glass-blower made smoking pipes. Some tourists even rode around in a limo, eager to try weed but not so eager to be seen buying it.
MIAMI (AP) - The so-called "young invincibles" are so important to the success of the Affordable Care Act that supporters and detractors are spending millions to reach them with racy ads, social media campaigns and celebrity endorsements. The president is even (gasp) asking their mothers to help convince them to sign up for insurance.
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Ford plans to unveil at this month's International CES gadget show a solar-powered concept car that offers the same performance as a plug-in hybrid but without the need for a plug.
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Ford plans to unveil at this month's International CES gadget show a solar-powered concept car that offers the same performance as a plug-in hybrid but without the need for a plug.
It's the ideal time for a tech journalist to make predictions for 2014. But if columnists were any good at seeing the future, we'd be filing our stories from Tahiti instead of Dorchester.
GREENVILLE - The Reid Hospital expansion in Greenville is well underway, as the city's Planning and Zoning Department has been working with the business to facilitate construction beginning in the first quarter of 2014, weather permitting.
IRWINDALE, Calif. (AP) - A Los Angeles suburb is spicing up its lawsuit against a hot-sauce manufacturer it claims polluted the air with pungent smells.
A report issued by the State Department Friday raised no major environmental objections to the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada. The 1,179-mile pipeline would travel through Montana and South Dakota to a hub in Nebraska, where it would connect with existing pipelines to carry more than 800,000 barrels of crude oil a day to refineries in Texas.
ARMONK, N.Y. (AP) - IBM CEO Virginia Rometty and the rest of her senior management team are relinquishing their 2013 bonuses as penance for the technology company's lackluster performance last year.
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) - Lawyers for the man accused of killing 12 people at a Colorado movie theater said Friday they will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to require a Fox News reporter to reveal the confidential sources she used in a story about defendant James Holmes.
Your top salesperson resigns and heads for a competitor. Your mind races. Did she take customer lists, strategic product plans or pricing data with her?
DETROIT (AP) - Italian automaker Fiat SpA says it has an agreement to acquire the remaining shares of Chrysler for $3.65 billion in payments to a union-controlled trust fund.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sugarplum went into the salon as a reddish-blonde dachshund mix and came out with pink and green ears, a rainbow tail and a bow in her fur.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has thrown a hitch into President Barack Obama's new health care law by blocking a requirement that some religion-affiliated organizations provide health insurance that includes birth control.
DENVER (AP) - The nation's first recreational pot industry opened in Colorado on Wednesday, kicking off a marijuana experiment that will be watched closely around the world. Already, it is attracting people from across the country.
YOUNGSTOWN -- As the shale play in Northeast Ohio begins to take off, studies emerging from both sides of the hydraulic fracturing debate are painting different pictures about the industry's impact on the local economy.
MIAMI (AP) - The so-called "young invincibles," are so important to the success of the Affordable Care Act that supporters and detractors are spending millions to reach them with racy ads, social media campaigns and celebrity endorsements.
DENVER (AP) - Firing up bongs and cheering in a cloud of marijuana smoke, pot users in Colorado hailed the arrival of the nation's first recreational pot industry Wednesday.
Ohio energy companies extracted more than twice as much oil and gas from the Utica shale in the third quarter of 2013 as they did in all of 2012, according to new figures issued by the state.
Starting Jan. 1, central provisions of the Affordable Care Act kick in, allowing many uninsured Americans to afford health insurance. But the landmark law still faces heavy opposition from Republicans and from a public that remains skeptical the law can improve health care coverage while lowering its cost.
WASHINGTON (AP) - This could be the year that things finally turn around for President Barack Obama's health care law. Yet it could start with another round of glitches that vex consumers and leave Republicans crowing, "We told you so."
WASHINGTON (AP) - This could be the year that things finally turn around for President Barack Obama's health care law. Or it could start with another round of glitches that vex consumers and leave Republicans crowing, "We told you so."
Lend me your ears. I have come to praise President Obama and bury the myth that Republican presidents are better for the economy than Democratic presidents. Not only do Democrats produce superior economic results but they blow Republicans out of the water in the comparisons.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Only hours before the law was to take effect, a Supreme Court justice on Tuesday blocked implementation of part of President Barack Obama's health care law that would have forced some religion-affiliated organizations to provide health insurance for employees that includes birth control.
The typical Utica shale well in eastern Ohio produced 137,168 thousand cubic feet of natural gas and 5,439 barrels of liquids from July through September, according to a new report released Tuesday by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Las Vegas was revving up Tuesday for what could be its biggest New Year's Eve celebration yet, featuring sold-out concerts and a fireworks show billed as the largest in the country.
From the boardroom to the "mom-and-pop" store on the corner, the Affordable Care Act has spurred deliberation and debate about an employer's role as a source of health benefits.
As the son of an education professor, McGraw-Hill school education group president Peter Cohen has had an insider's view into the evolution of the American classroom.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A company that wants to build a pipeline to pump natural gas liquids across Kentucky wouldn't be able to condemn private property through the state's eminent domain law if some leading lawmakers have their way.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Chief Justice John Roberts says Congress and the White House need to restore funding to the nation's federal courts to keep from undermining, in his words, "the public's confidence in all three branches of government."
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress and the White House need to restore funding to the nation's federal courts to keep from undermining "the public's confidence in all three branches of government," Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday in his year-end report.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Catholic organizations made a last-minute effort Tuesday to get the Supreme Court to block portions of President Barack Obama's health care law that will force them to provide health insurance for students and employees that includes birth control.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Catholic organizations are calling on the Supreme Court to stop portions of President Barack Obama's health care law that force them to provide health insurance for students and employees that includes birth control.
Key barometers in the Treasury market late Tuesday, compared with late Monday. Price changes in the 10-year note and 30-year bond are per $100 invested:
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A Missouri brewery has responded to a cease and desist letter from Starbucks by sending the coffee chain a $6 check to cover what it calls the profit from its use of the word "Frappicino."
RIGA, Latvia (AP) - Latvia has become the 18th member of the eurozone, which for all its dents and bruises still represents stability and security to the Baltic country's leaders.
RIGA, Latvia (AP) - Latvia has become the 18th member of the eurozone, which for all its dents and bruises still represents stability and security to the Baltic country's leaders.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index logged its best year since 1997, gaining 29.6 percent. All 10 industry groups that make up the index rose, led by consumer discretionary stocks, a broad category that includes department stores, restaurants and entertainment companies. Telecommunications stocks rose the least. Here's a breakdown:
The Standard & Poor's 500 index logged its best year since 1997, gaining 29.6 percent. All 10 industry groups that make up the index rose, led by consumer discretionary stocks, a broad category that includes department stores, restaurants and entertainment companies. Telecommunications stocks rose the least. Here's a breakdown:
