Carl Icahn called for Dell to launch a tender offer for up to $16 billion of its shares, and he also bought about 72 million shares, making him the second-largest holder in the company.
Wal-Mart is creating a vast new logistics system that includes building warehouses for Web orders, but also uses workers in stores to pack and mail items to customers.
The growing popularity of electronic cigarettes has divided regulators and antismoking activists just as Europe gets ready to tighten its tobacco laws.
Two of the largest independent U.S. high-frequency-trading firms are in early merger discussions, as a downturn in trading opportunities has spurred cutbacks and tie-up talks among rivals
A U.S. federal appeals court called on the Export-Import Bank of the U.S. to review its procedures in approving $3.4 billion in loan guarantees to Air India to buy as many as 30 long-range jets from Boeing.
Two-year-old design website Fab is now worth more than $1 billion, thanks to a $150 million venture-capital round led in part by Chinese Internet conglomerate Tencent Holdings.
Chinese property conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group plans to expand its luxury real-estate and hotel business overseas, as it builds the world's first Chinese luxury hotel outside of China's mainland.
Donald Trump hasn't licensed his name for a U.S. real-estate project since before the financial downturn. But he has done so for more than a dozen real-estate developments outside the U.S.
The corporate sector's appetite for temporary staff hasn't translated into big gains for ManpowerGroup: CEO Jeffrey A. Joerres blames conditions in Europe and cites his decision to hold the line on prices.
Boeing signed up five customers for a new stretched version of its Dreamliner, a milestone in a marketing push it hopes will reignite sales of the aircraft after the current version was temporarily grounded this year.
