Your products run for election every day, says Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley. And good design is critical to winning the campaign.

Sun Microsystems is acquiring storage specialist Storage Technology, better known as StorageTek, in a deal worth $4.1 billion, the companies said Thursday.

In an attempt to boost sluggish sales, General Motors Corp. said Wednesday it will offer the same discount it gives to its employees to anyone who buys a new GM car or truck in the next month.

EBay Inc. on Wednesday said it has agreed to buy comparison-shopping site Shopping.com for $620 million in cash, a move seen as an attempt to boost the auction giant's slowing growth.

Acting quickly to fill a high-profile regulatory vacancy, President Bush on Thursday announced that he's nominating Rep. Christopher Cox, R-Calif., a conservative veteran of 16 years in Congress with wide-ranging policy interests, to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission.

For newly minted business school graduates, this was the most successful job-hunting year since 2001, a new survey says. Half of students finishing master's of business administration degrees this year had job offers by mid-March, according to the survey of 5,829 students at 129 business schools conducted by the Graduate Management Admission Council, an organization of business schools.

Unicredito, Italys largest bank by market capitalisation, is discussing a takeover of Germanys HVB in a deal that would mark the latest phase in the accelerating cross-border consolidation of the European banking industry.

Personal income in the United States rose in April at the fastest pace this year while people's spending slowed after a big jump in March, the government reported Friday.

Regulators' charges against the nation's largest insurance company are heading into court, as New York authorities filed their anticipated civil lawsuit against American International Group Inc. and its former chief.

Recent study finds small businesses have been hit hard by vacancies caused by reservist activations.

The United States said Thursday that China should "move without delay" to change currency practices that American manufacturers blame for soaring trade deficits and the loss of U.S. jobs.

Ben Edelman may be spyware's most dangerous enemy. The 25-year-old researcher has spent years analyzing how spyware and adware programs work and disclosing his findings publicly. That often results in red faces and, occasionally, lawsuit threats from companies like WhenU and Claria, formerly known as Gator.

Price discrimination in mortgage lending is not only by race but also by gender, a new nationwide analysis by Inner City Press / Fair Finance Watch (ICP) shows. At the largest bank, Citigroup, for home purchase loans, African American women are confined to high cost loans 4.06 times more frequently than white men. Hispanic men are confined to high cost loans 2.15 times more frequently than white men. At Wells Fargo, the disparity between Hispanic men and white men is 1.78. ICP has submitted evidence and demands for action to federal regulators as well as to the attorneys general in fifty states.

Before Steve Lipscomb launched the World Poker Tour, poker had a vaguely seedy rep. Now it's a national obsession, and the WPT is a public company with a market cap of $300 million. How Lipscomb built his empire -- without risking a cent.

The worst earthquake damage the nation has ever seen -- with up to 18,000 fatalities and $252 billion in damage -- could come from a magnitude 7.5 temblor that could occur on a fault under downtown Los Angeles, seismic researchers said Wednesday.

Employees will now have more time to use up contributions.

U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte's anti-spyware bill has passed the House of Representatives and is a step closer to becoming law.

Question: I am confused. I thought that death taxes were abolished. Now I am hearing that Congress wants to make the abolishment permanent. And my CPA is saying that all of this is just smoke and mirrors because while everyone is focused on death taxes, Congress has hit us with new taxes. What is right?

Less than a week after it said it would sell the group which produces the Track It! line of help desk and asset management software, on Tuesday Intuit unveiled a patch management addition to the enterprise family.

SO FAR as motoring disasters go, Daewoo is right up there with the Ford Edsel, the Lada Riva and the Lancias that rusted beyond MoT standards while still parked on the showroom floor awaiting registration.