Dollar Tree Inc., the famous discount variety chain store announced Monday that it has agreed to acquire rival company Family Dollar Inc for a deal worth $8.5 billion.
National Security Agency surveillance programs in the United States have made it very difficult for government officials to speak to the press anonymously, two rights groups said Monday, Reuters reports.
An upsurge in violence in Gaza as well as southern Israel, despite the United Nations' plea for an immediate ceasefire, was witnessed Monday.
Virgin America Inc., the San Francisco-based airline, announced Monday that it has filed for a registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an Initial Public Offering of its common stock.
Bose is taking a swing at Beats Electronics with a lawsuit alleging Beats of infringing several patents related to noise-cancelling technology.
Boko Haram fighters kidnapped the wife of Cameroon's Vice Prime Minister Amadou Ali and killed at least three other people early on Sunday, in an attack on Ali's house in the northern town of Kolofata, Aljazeera reports.
A federal judge has termed Washington's ban on carrying of handguns in public as "unconstitutional." He struck down the District of Columbia's ban on carrying guns outside of a person's home, concluding it violates Second Amendment rights, Associated Press reports.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly conducting preliminary talks with Uber CEO Travis Kalanick about integrating the taxi service into Facebook Messenger.
It’s been a while that Khloe Kardashian, the “Keeping Up with the Kardashian” star and rapper French Montana have been going out publicly. But in their first joint interview with Angie Martinez on Power 105.1 FM, Khloe got candid and opened up about their new relationship.
Twitter Inc., the social media website that limits your rants to 140 characters, recently released its workforce diversity numbers that shows the firm has a large number of Asian and White males working in the company.
Administrators of Wikipedia - the collaborative encyclopedia - have imposed a 10-day ban on page edits by anonymous person/persons using a US House of Representatives IP address, due to "persistent disruptive editing".
Russia accused the United States, Friday, of launching a baseless "smear campaign" over its alleged involvement in the conflict in Ukraine and also said that Washington is responsible for the bloodshed.
The first official trailer of “Fifty Shades of Grey,” the upcoming feature film based on the bestselling erotic novel by E.L. James, has just been released and it has fans wanting for more.
In an utterly unexpected move, Wal-Mart Stores Inc announced Thursday that U.S. stores CEO Bill Simon will be stepping down to make way for Greg Foran, the president of Walmart Asia, effective Aug 09, 2014.
The wreckage of the Air Algerie plane carrying 116 passengers and crew members, which had disappeared early on Thursday, has been found in Mali near the border with Burkina Faso. There were no survivors.
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