"Moonrise Kingdom," the latest feature from offbeat indie director Wes Anderson, tracks the adventures of two precocious tweens—he smokes a pipe; she wears eye shadow. When it opens May 25, it will go head-to-head with "Men in Black 3," a ...
Eduardo Saverin doesn't seem likely to splash any of his new Facebook money into the Chinese Internet world just yet. Speaking at the CHINICT conference in Beijing on Friday, Mr. Saverin didn't say much about China, referring only to the ...
A consortium of countries chose South Africa and Australia to share a groundbreaking €1.5 billion ($1.87 billion) radio telescope that will be the biggest and most sensitive instrument of its kind.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The controversy over Facebook Inc.’s initial public offering touches on language used in regulatory filings called “risk factors.”
BEIJING—The growing unease toward foreigners in Beijing may have claimed an unexpected casualty: a community theater production of "Oklahoma!"
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Talbots Inc. shares plunged 34% Friday after the struggling women’s clothing retailer said its exclusivity agreement with potential buyer Sycamore Partners expired without a deal even after the deadline was extended ...
Yahoo Inc. has a few things going on lately: A new chief executive is in place after a scandal felled his predecessor, the company's share of the display ad market is shrinking, and gaining ground on Google Inc. in search is still proving ...
China Nepstar Chain Drugstore Ltd. topped the list of Biggest Percentage Price Gainers among common stocks on the New York Stock Exchange at midday. See the full list .
For years, Europe's cellphone companies reeled subscribers in with cheap deals on handsets. They would then make their profits from the sale of calls, SMS text messages and other services to customers who were tied to relatively lengthy ...
First, a big arrest in New York, from the WSJ's Sean Gardiner: Police on Thursday arrested a man they said confessed to the murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz, a breakthrough in a 1979 case that drew national attention to the issue of missing ...
A few weeks ago in Singapore, a Chinese Ferrari driver crashed into a taxi, killing himself, the taxi driver and a passenger. It was one out of approximately 8,000 car wrecks in the city-state each year, but it has turned into a flashpoint ...
The NFL news cycle is still kind of slow this time of year. The serious questions – whether Osi Umenyiora will resolve his contract status, how Peyton Manning will do with the Denver Broncos, whether Bill Belichick's new hoodies bring out ...
When Barry Diller backed a start-up that streams local broadcast signals over the Internet, it looked like another unorthodox move by a famously offbeat mogul. Now that start-up has become a grenade that is threatening to wound the ...
Is the U.S. government taking on one of the Chinese government's best known efforts to promote China's image abroad? That was the question ricocheting around the Chinese Internet this week after the Chronicle of Higher Education reported on ...