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From her poverty-stricken roots in a Philippine backwater, via domestic service in Hong Kong to acclaim in New York, Xyza…

Walt Disney Co CEO Bob Iger learned that Steve Jobs' cancer had returned less than an hour before Disney announced…

New Yorkers have a longer work week on average than residents of the other largest 29 US cities, thanks in…

March Madness gripped the White House and lots of other workplaces on Wednesday as President Barack Obama joined an estimated…

US Internet company Yahoo is shutting down its presence in China, laying off at least 200 people, Bloomberg News reported. The…

 Opel, the European arm of US auto giant General Motors, announced Wednesday it will withdraw from the Russian market, where…

Before headphones and speaker company Beats Electronics was sold to Apple for more than US$3 billion, the company faced a…

Microsoft says its new Windows 10 operating system will be coming "this summer" in 190 countries and 111 languages. In a…

Die-hard eclipse junkies from around the world are expected to brave polar bears and frostbite in the Arctic on Friday…

Japanese video game maker Nintendo Co Ltd will venture into smartphone games, heeding calls from investors to boost revenue by…