SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet icon that had fallen behind the times.

The housing market is slowing. Consumer debt levels are sky high. But don't count Canada's banks out yet. For the past few quarters, the banks faced the same headwinds, but every three months analysts and investors were pleasantly surprised with their ...

Campbell Soup Co.'s (CPB) fiscal third-quarter earnings rose 2.3% as improved soup sales and last year's acquisition of Bolthouse Farms helped drive the packaged-foods maker's revenue growth.

OTTAWA - A team of 15 Canadian soldiers has been dispatched to Kandahar on a month-long assignment to assess whether dozens of military containers are still seaworthy enough to be brought home.

WINDSOR, Ontario - Assumption Park gives residents of this city lovely views of the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit skyline. Lately they've been treated to another sight: a three-story pile of petroleum coke covering an entire city block on the other side of ...

WordPress CEO Matt Mullenweg has spoken out in an attempt to capitalize on Yahoo's rumored $1.1 billion acquisition of rival blogging service Tumblr.

JOHANNESBURG | Mon May 20, 2013 7:03am EDT. JOHANNESBURG May 20 (Reuters) - South Africa's Solidarity trade union, which represents mostly skilled workers, said on Monday it was seeking 10 percent pay increases for its members from the ...

LONDON - Optimism about global growth pushed world shares to a near five-year high on Monday, while debate about the future of the US Federal Reserve's (Fed's) stimulus programme extended gold's longest losing streak in four years.

Gros Morne National Park's status as a world heritage site may be in jeopardy due to plans for controversial oil exploration on Newfoundland's west coast, CBC News has learned.

New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) Ace designer Rajesh Pratap Singh has collaborated with textile brand Shingora to launch its fall-winter 2013 collection.