After a market debut marred by technical glitches and a deep dive in the company's stock price, Facebook has spent the past year focused on its biggest weaknesses: how to make money and keep its more than 1 billion users tethered to the social network.

"During your working lives, you will have to reinvent yourselves many times," Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told new graduates at Bard College at Simon's Rock on Saturday.

Americans' confidence in the economy climbed in May to the highest level in almost six years as rising real estate values and record stock prices boosted household wealth.

IDG News Service - Bitcoin is growing up. The virtual currency that caught the public's attention last month when its value zoomed briefly past $200 kicked off its first Silicon Valley conference Friday evening and shows no sign of losing momentum.

According to multiple reports (the first coming from All Things D), the social blogging site is in serious talks with Yahoo Yahoo, which is looking to secure a strategic investment, partnership or even an outright acquisition.

Give American Airlines credit for trying a new method to board passengers more quickly. Airlines constantly tinker with the boarding process, and this time American says it has found a way to cut an average of two minutes from the 40 minutes to 45 minutes ...

No one ever said the economic recovery would be pretty. California eked out more growth in April as employers added 10,400 jobs, bringing the net total added over the year to 273,000.

U.S. stocks closed higher Friday, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 121 points to 15354, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index rose 17 points to 1667, and the Nasdaq Composite climbed 34 points to 3499.

By Ann Saphir. CHICAGO | Fri May 17, 2013 3:25pm EDT. CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve has not done enough to lower U.S. borrowing costs to boost economic growth, a top Fed official said on Friday, citing his outlook for overly low inflation and ...

Stocks continued their climb into uncharted territory on Friday, racking up the fourth week in a row of gains as encouraging economic data prompted investors to buy shares of growth companies.