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Dow Jones & Co., owner of The Wall Street Journal, agreed in principle to accept Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion offer first proposed in mid-April. The board of directors will vote on the deal. But the paper is majority-owned by the Bancroft family, which still has to agree to the deal.

Print newspapers are losing money and readers to online news sources. But rather than fight to the death, some papers have decided to try to work with their online competitors.

The streamer said it added 5.9 million customers during the second quarter. Its share price has almost doubled over the past year.

The Bush Administration unveiled its plan Thursday for overhauling the vast regulatory system to prevent another crisis in the nation's credit markets. It said banks, mortgage companies, investors and credit-rating agencies all share in the blame, and it proposed that mortgage brokers be licensed and added new voluntary guidelines.

The beverage-first McDonald's spinoff, named for a six-handed extraterrestrial, seems to be a grab at markets currently served by the likes of Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts.

The 75,000 health care workers from Kaiser Permanente could only strike for three days under federal rules. They'll go back to work Saturday as union talks with the giant health care company continue.

When economist Paul Oyer returned to the world of dating, he started logging on to match-making websites. As he explains in a new book, he discovered that his academic expertise was entirely relevant to his foray into online dating.

Online store owners in China are protesting against what they say are heavy and arbitrary fines imposed by Temu, one of the world's biggest e-commerce platforms.

If successful, the uncrewed spacecraft would be the first U.S. lunar landing in more than 50 years, and would mean one giant leap for the commercial space sector.

The rappers say that Walmart and Post Consumer Foods neglected their cereal brand and intentionally hid it in stockrooms to prevent it from being sold to customers.