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McDonald's Corp. CEO Jack Greenberg said Thursday he plans to retire at the end of the year. Greenberg, a 21-year veteran of McDonald's, will be succeeded by McDonald's Vice Chairman and President Jim ...

General Electric has been a piston of the American economic engine for 125 years. It pioneered the light bulb and the jet engine. It survived the Great Depression, the dot-com crash and the 2008 ...

Just this June, Fortune Magazine announced a new milestone in its list of Fortune 500 female CEOs. The number of women CEOs listed had reached an all–time high: 32 in a single year. The ...

This chart was compiled using data from more than 15,000 oil fields across 20 nations. The production costs were calculated by including a mix of capital expenditures and operational expenditures.

KFC has issued a high-profile, humorous apology for its chicken shortages in the UK. The fast-food chain used a full-page ad in British newspapers to apologize for shutting down hundreds of ...

Facebook is quickly closing in on the two billion user mark. The social network had 1.86 billion monthly active users as of the end of 2016, up from 1.79 billion the previous quarter and 1.59 ...

The stock market should have carried a warning in 2016: Steep drops and sudden acceleration may cause whiplash. From crashing oil prices that fueled Wall Street's worst-ever start to a year, to ...

Editor's Note: Today, a Canadian payment processor named PacNet Services, Ltd. became one of the many targets of an unprecedented crackdown on global mail fraud, which was announced today by ...

Samsung has killed off the Galaxy Note 7 in the hope of limiting the fallout from its exploding smartphone fiasco. The South Korean firm decided Tuesday to permanently halt sales and production of ...

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Walmart has agreed to buy India's leading online retailer Flipkart, paying $16 billion for a controlling stake of 77%. Flipkart gives Walmart access to a market it has been trying to crack for years.