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A Wall Street Journal investigation finds that one of the fastest growing businesses on the Internet is the business of spying on American consumers. First in a series.

The largest U.S. websites are installing new and intrusive consumer-tracking technologies on the computers of people visiting their sites—in some cases, more than 100 tracking tools at a time—a Wall Street Journal investigation has found.

The Internet is rife with surveillance technology, but you can protect your privacy by following these steps.

Nokia Siemens Networks is talking to several buyout firms about a potential cash infusion of at least $1 billion in exchange for a minority stake.

Google CEO Schmidt said the company doesn't know if what now seems to have been a minor disruption of its availability in China was evidence of Beijing's power.

The rising clout of international audiences is a sea change for Hollywood. Foreign ticket sales represent 68% of the global market, and studios are using foreign actors and tweaking plots to lure viewers abroad.

BP formed a joint venture with Exxon Mobil and its Canadian subsidiary to explore for oil and gas in the Beaufort Sea.

U.S. economic growth slowed in the second quarter to a 2.4% annual rate. Business investment was strong, but imports were a big drag and consumers contributed less.

A provision in the new financial-regulation law that limits public access to documents collected by the Securities and Exchange Commission is stoking a debate over the proper level of disclosure.

Tycoon Li Ka-shing's $9.1 billion acquisition of three U.K. power grids from Electricite de France will give him control of about a quarter of the country's power distribution.

White Collar Watch examines the issues and problems that the Securities and Exchange Commission faces in its case against the billionaire Wyly brothers, who are accused of securities fraud and insider trading.

Nokia Siemens Networks, the big telecom equipment maker, is in talks with several private equity firms about a potential investment in exchange for a minority stake, people briefed on the matter told DealBook on Friday.

The Deal Professor examines the termination of Charles River Laboratories' deal for WuXi PharmaTech and the lessons it provides for buyers in this post-crisis market for mergers and acquisitions.

A recent editorial in The New York Times urged lawmakers not just to scrutinize thefor-profit education industry more thoroughly, but address an industry whose profits depend upon government-subsidized loans to low-income individuals.

For anyone chomping at the bit to get their hands on a piece of a public Facebook, the wait may have grown a little longer.

The communications firm, one behind some of the biggest deals in history, named the senior partner Larry Rand as chief executive, succeeding eponymous founder Gershon Kekst.

Henry M. Paulson Jr. says an important way to fix the nation's housing market policies is to overhaul and shrink Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Deflation -- it sounds like fun. Things get cheaper, right, so what's the big deal? Sadly, a widespread slide in prices has more nefarious effects than that other bugbear, inflation, first because it signals a retreat in demand and, second, because people quickly understand that if they wait longer, they will have to pay even less -- a vicious cycle spurred by a seemingly harmless virtue, thrift.

With all of Elon Musk's accomplishments -- which include co-founding PayPal; SpaceX, a spaceship company aspiring to build low-cost rocket transports; and Tesla, the high-profile electric car company -- Stephen Colbert wonders where the entrepreneur finds time for his secret identity as Batman.

Tyco International, a Swiss diversified manufacturer, said Thursday that it has agreed to sell its European water equipment business to a private equity firm for $245 million, The Associated Press reported.

If the government has to change Social Security, people may need to put aside a lot more money to make up for any reduction in benefits.

With growth at an annual rate of 2.4 percent in the second quarter and the stimulus fading, an analyst says the rest of the year will feel like a recession.

Sam and Charles Wyly had been investigated by the I.R.S. and Congress years before the S.E.C. filed its suit.

Collecting old consumer debts has become a labyrinthine industry involving buyers of secondhand debt, muddled statutes of limitation, lawsuits and, sometimes, abusive tactics.

An effort known as a static kill is part of a two-pronged strategy to kill the well by cementing it shut twice, from above with the static kill and then from below, using a relief well.

The president emphasized that G.M. and Chrysler had returned to profitability and added jobs since the government came to their rescue over a year ago.

Senator Charles E. Grassley requested data from Zimmer Holdings, a maker of artificial hips and knees, on how it responded to complaints from surgeons.

A trial could offer the first glimpse of a technology that may hold vast medical promise but also is embroiled in controversy.

Investors were particularly fretful about the G.D.P. report because it comes at the end of a run of worse than expected economic data and a warning from the Fed.

The deal ends a laborious bidding process that saw the label’s co-founders, Harvey and Bob Weinstein, fall short in their attempt to regain control.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks closed little changed on Friday, but Wall Street wrapped up its best month in a year after the earnings season rounded the final turn with a group of strong results that offset the impact of poor economic data.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks are unlikely to break above a key technical level next week unless monthly jobs data and consumer company results paint a more promising picture of the recovery.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has subpoenaed six more insurers as the state widens a probe into whether life insurance companies have defrauded families of deceased members of the military.

VIENNA (Reuters) - BP Plc is seeking to sell its German petrol station chain Aral for around 2 billion euros ($2.6 billion), German magazine Wirtschaftswoche reported on Saturday, citing investment bankers familiar with BP's plans.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. economic growth slowed in the second quarter as companies invested heavily in equipment from abroad and the pace of consumer spending eased, raising concerns about the recovery in the rest of 2010.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc is the bank many Americans love to hate, but one group just plain loves it: its employees.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's personal finances recovered in 2009, disclosure forms released by the central bank on Friday showed.

DETROIT (Reuters) - Chrysler, the No. 3 U.S. automaker, would be profitable on a net basis if it were not for the interest costs of loans remaining from its bailout, the automaker's chief executive said on Friday.

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co has struck a deal to sell Miramax, the studio behind such films as "Trainspotting" and "No Country for Old Men," for more than $660 million to a group that includes construction magnate Ron Tutor and investment firm Colony Capital LLC.

PARIS (Reuters) - French financial holding firm Eurazeo said on Saturday it is in exclusive talks to sell its B&B Hotels chain to U.S. private equity firm the Carlyle Group.