Report: Google sued over tracking Two Michigan women have filed a $50 million lawsuit against Google over how the company deals with location data on its Android phones, the Detroit News reported Thursday. In the lawsuit, filed Wednesday i…

G-20 leaders agree to framework for assessing nations’ financial risk factors World economic leaders agreed Friday on how to assess which nations’ finances pose a risk to the global economy, reaching a milestone in efforts to reduce the so…

Japan’s recovery from earthquake, tsumani may stretch its finances Although Japan is widely considered to have the financial wherewithal to bounce back from the calamity that struck three weeks ago, analysts are beginning to wonder if shif…

Judge rejects Google’s deal with authors and publishers to put books online The decision comes as regulators in this country and in Europe scrutinize Google’s supremacy in the search business. The judge’s thinking, laid out in a 48-page fi…

Japan earthquake’s aftermath: Economists more pessimistic about long-term impact “The sheer complexity of the damage makes it difficult to grasp the overall impact,” Barclays analysts Kyohei Morita and Yuichiro Nagai said, estimating that …

Explosion rocks Japanese nuclear power plant; 5 reactors in peril In what may become the most serious nuclear power crisis since the Chernobyl disaster, the explosion followed large tremors at the Fukushima Daiichi No. 1 reactor Saturday a…

Google Invests in Latin America as Region’s Sales Jump 80% Google Inc., the world’s biggest Internet-search company, is opening new offices in Latin America and boosting staffing levels by 50 percent to capitalize on its fastest-growing re…

Borders turns page to Chapter 11 (12:55 p.m. Over on The Buzz, Elizabeth Flock posted details about the Washington-area stores due to close. The list includes the Borders I used to shop at most often, 1801 K Street, as well as locations in…

New York Rep. Chris Lee resigns from the House Rep. Chris Lee (R-N.Y.) resigned from the House Wednesday evening effective immediately, an announcement that came just hours after a Web site reported that the married congressman had sent a …

U.S. finds no electronic flaws in Toyotas that would cause acceleration NASA engineers found no electronic flaws in Toyota that would cause unintended acceleration, the U.S. Department of Transportation reported Tuesday. The results were a…

Rush is on for custom domain name suffixes The future operator of .sport, for instance, could sell as many as 200,000 or more Web addresses - hockey.sport, bethesda.sport or washingtoncapitals.sport - for wholesale prices ranging from $6 t…

Unemployment rate plunges to 9% in January, but only 36,000 jobs added "This jobs report is like looking in a funhouse mirror," said Stuart Hoffman, chief economist at PNC Financial Services Group. "It's hard to be sure what's really going…

Wikipedia is turning 10, and founder Jimmy Wales has big plans Wikipedia editors "aren't writing about what they know, but about their prejudices and preferences," said Jorge Cauz, the president of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "The fact that …

In a dying industry, Dave Matthews Band has found its niche - and big money If that sounds familiar - not the music, the strategy - it's because DMB is pulling an old trick pioneered by theGrateful Dead, a band beloved of business school p…

2010: The year ruled by smartphones and social networks Both smartphones and tablets have further eroded the significance of traditional desktop and laptop computers. Sure, people still buy the things in massive numbers. But when you can g…

Amazon patents procedure to let recipients avoid undesirable gifts Amazon is working on a solution that could revolutionize digital gift buying. The online retailer has quietly patented a way for people to return gifts before they receive …

Art project aims to shake up rural Md. with barns painted with contemporary images Tucked between two grain silos in the gray and white of winter is an old Maryland dairy barn spray-painted with monsters. There's a droopy-eyed Technicolor …

Arms treaty approval a win for Obama, but GOP critics are gaining momentum Eleven days after the bruising midterm elections, President Obama got a stark reminder of how his political shellacking at home could undermine his standing abroad.…

'Don't ask, don't tell' is repealed by Senate; bill awaits Obama's signing The U.S. military will for the first time in history allow gays to serve openly after the Senate voted Saturday to repeal "don't ask, don't tell," the policy that h…

Virginia health-care ruling strikes down key provision of Obama's plan U.S. District Court Judge Henry E. Hudson found that Congress could not order individuals to buy health insurance. In a 42-page opinion, Hudson said the provision of th…

Ozawa to Limit His Role in Carnegie’s Japan Festival Seiji Ozawa’s cancellation of performances at the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto, in Japan, in September because of back problems heightened concern at Carnegie Hall, since the programs …

Bill Clinton takes the White House stage, again On Friday, Clinton was the past president back on the inside but still the center of attention and doing what he likes to do best. If Obama succeeds in winning the support he needs from his r…

Facing frustration from Democrats, Obama defends tax cuts deal A defensive President Obama cast himself Tuesday as the guardian of middle-class Americans and the unemployed, saying sharply that he had to strike a deal with Senate Republica…

U.S., South Korea complete free-trade deal The pact is the administration's first major foray into the arena of free-trade politics, and officials said it may be followed by efforts to have Congress approve pending deals with Panama and Co…

Amazon.com stops hosting WikiLeaks on its servers WikiLeaks has lost the love of Amazon.com. The online bookseller, which also provides Web services, had been hosting WikiLeaks on its servers. After an inquiry Tuesday afternoon from an aid…

Leaked cables expose U.S. diplomacy The documents suggest American diplomats were ordered to engage in low-level spying by obtaining personal information on foreign diplomats such as frequent flier and credit card numbers, presumably to be…

U.S. embassies warn allies of possible fallout from new WikiLeaks disclosure U.S. embassies around the world are warning allies that WikiLeaks might be poised to release classified cables that could negatively impact relations by revealing…

U.S. Jobless Claims Decline to Lowest Since July 2008 Jobless claims declined by 34,000 to 407,000 in the week ended Nov. 20, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington. The median projection of economists surveyed by Bloomberg Ne…

Fed lowers economic expectations for 2011 Top Federal Reserve officials expect the unemployment rate to remain around nine percent at the end of next year and eight percent at the end of 2012, according to internal forecasts that drove the…

Wal-Mart vows to match rival Black Friday discounts Wal-Mart, which will keep many stores open 24 hours on Friday, said shoppers who bring in a rival ad can get their prices reduced at the cash register. The move is an aggressive bid by th…