Yahoo is paying $1.1 billion to buy the popular blogging site Tumblr. It's part of Yahoo's comeback efforts, after years in a financial funk.

Apple on Monday sought to pre-empt accusations of tax avoidance from an influential US Senate committee, publishing its written submission to the committee the day before Tim Cook, chief executive, was due to testify.

In a signal of confidence to the flying public that Boeing 787s are safe to fly, the CEOs of Boeing Co. and United Continental Holdings on Monday traveled from Houston to Chicago aboard a Dreamliner.

GrubHub and Seamless, two startups that let people order restaurant takeout without leaving the sofa or even picking up the phone, said Monday they are merging.

NEW YORK--Stocks took a breather from their recent rally Monday, as declines in some of the year's best-performing sectors weighed on benchmarks.

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - U.S. stocks finished lower on Monday after comments from Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans knocked them from new all-time highs set earlier in the day.

Mon May 20, 2013 10:04am EDT. May 20 (Reuters) - The following is a list of scheduled U.S. agency bill sales from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for 2013.

Bitcoin is not going away, the digital currency's developers say, and they're craving more technically savvy people to support its use.

Mon May 20, 2013 2:42pm EDT. * Silver hits Sept 2010 low before rebounding * Gold also shoots up from 1-month low and 7 days of losses * Investors await Fed chairman's testimony on Wednesday (Updates with U.S.

NEW YORK | Mon May 20, 2013 11:45am EDT. NEW YORK (Reuters) - The yen climbed back from a 4-1/2-year low against the dollar on Monday after Japan's economy minister suggested the currency might have weakened enough.