Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer is staking the future of the largest U.S. Web portal on a six-year-old blogging startup with little revenue and a freewheeling stance on content created by users.

Apple Inc. (AAPL) Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook is going somewhere his predecessor never ventured: the witness table at a congressional hearing on Capitol Hill.

The chief executive of outsourcing firm iGATE Phaneesh Murthy has been sacked "for not disclosing a relationship with a subordinate".

As 787 Dreamliner commercial flights resume after a lengthy grounding for battery problems, Boeing Co. and its customers are refocusing on fixing the host of other technical and mechanical issues that affect the reliability of the cutting-edge aircraft.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (FMCC) are exempt from Michigan's state and local real estate transfer taxes, a U.S. appeals court ruled, overturning a lower-court decision.

Grammy winner Mary J. Blige is being chased for taxes again. Like mixing plaids and stripes, celebrities and taxes often seem to be in discord.

GrubHub Inc. and Seamless North America LLC, two of the top food-delivery websites in the U.S., have agreed to combine their companies to take on rivals in the growing market for online meal orders.

The dollar firmed against the yen during Asian trading Tuesday, ahead of Wednesday's much-anticipated testimony by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and the conclusion of the Bank of Japan's policy board meeting.

SoftBank Corp. (9984), the Japanese carrier bidding to take over Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) in a $20.1 billion deal, plans to sell 400 billion yen ($3.9 billion) of bonds targeting individual investors to fund the purchase.

It's a family feud Federal Reserve-style as Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans and Dallas Federal Reserve President Richard Fisher argue in polite fashion about what the central bank has accomplished by tinkering with the economy.