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Jamie Dimon, the CEO and chairman of JPMorgan Chase, easily survived a vote Tuesday that would have called on him to give up his role as chairman of the nation's largest bank.

The Senate dragged Apple Inc., the world's most valuable company, into the debate over the U.S. tax code Tuesday, grilling CEO Tim Cook over allegations that its Irish subsidiaries help the company avoid billions in U.S. taxes.

An ad produced by Portland-based Wieden + Kennedy Inc. for Facebook's new Facebook Home app is at the center of a lawsuit in which the companies are accused of using a song by the rapper Eminem without permission.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks during a news conference on Yahoo, Flickr and Tumblr Monday, May 20, 2013, in New York.

Best Buy Co. on Tuesday reported a loss for its fiscal first quarter as it sold its stake in Best Buy Europe and works on a turnaround plan that includes cutting costs and closing some stores.

A view of an iPhone in Washington Tuesday, May 21, 2013, showing the Twitter and Facebook apps among others.

The company is set to reveal the next generation of its Xbox entertainment console during a presentation Tuesday at its headquarters in Redmond, Wash.

Wells Fargo & Co. , JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. have nearly halted foreclosure sales after federal regulators revised orders on how the troubled borrowers were to be treated before losing their homes.

Microsoft Corp is expanding its services for hosting and processing online data in Australia with the establishment of two new "cloud" computing data centers in the country.

Among the biggest fights Google is engaging, are the following three: In the last few days, it appears that Google's weapon of choice to fight these three battles may be Nvidia Apple and the iPhone/iPad: At the annual Google i/o developer conference last week, the Android development leadership was on stage and answered questions from the very ... (more)

Yahoo Inc. lured Marissa Mayer from Google in July to become its fifth CEO in as many years.

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, NEW YORK - Tesla Motors doesn't want to sell its cars the way every other car company does, and that's making a lot of traditional automobile dealers mad.

Billionaire Warren Buffett is spending his day listening to business pitches from a select group of kids, but the ideas aren't likely to generate new acquisitions for Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate.

SHE was sweet on Nutella for years, but the spread super-fan Sara Rosso has been ordered to quit talking about her favourite flavour online.

It's official: After several days of rumors, Yahoo [NASDAQ: YHOO] has all but confirmed that it will be purchasing the blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion.

Jotun has introduced its new Reveal Edge powder coatings range specially formulated to bring distinct visual character, colour and personality into household products.

The artist's sister said in social network posts that he died at home in Austin, Texas, on May 7, although the news took time to filter through to his friends and collaborators in the music world.

The Winklevoss brothers' legal battle with Facebook over the social network's messy creation made them rich.

Facebook made its debut on the stock market a year ago on May 18 in one of the largest IPOs in history and the biggest for any Internet company.

The New York City Anti Violence Project and LGBT Center announced via social media yesterday that a rally and Community Safety Night will be held next week in response to the recent ash of anti-gay violence across the city that lead to Saturday night's attack and murder of Marc Carson in Greenwich Village.