'Now You See Me,' to be released May 31 by Summit, hopes to make movie magic without computer-generated special effects. Director Louis Leterrier hired magic consultants, including David Copperfield, to create and execute some of the more complicated illusions.

Chesapeake Energy tapped Robert Douglas Lawler, a 46-year-old executive at Anadarko Petroleum, to succeed Chesapeake co-founder Aubrey McClendon as CEO of the nation's second-largest natural-gas producer.

What's underneath the hood of the latest Xbox videogame console represents a multiyear odyssey of trying to figure out how to keep the machine "cool" in the age of smartphones and tablets.

Boeing and its customers are refocusing on fixing more technical issues that affect the reliability of the 787 jet, as the aircraft resumes commercial flights after battery woes that led to a global grounding.

While rising labor costs have become almost routine for global mining firms locals in Brazil have been willing to take lower-level jobs such as operating a conveyor belt or maintaining machines for less than $10,000 a year.

Swedish exporters like Sandvik and BabyBjorn are struggling to cope with a stronger krona, which is hurting profits on exports.

Yahoo has agreed to pay $1.1 billion for Tumblr, a six-year-old company with more than 100 million users but very little revenue, a deal that highlights the shifting balance of power in the technology business.

Soft European markets were a consistent and negative theme of the first-quarter results from big U.S. industrial companies, and concerns about further deterioration are expected to be a key topic at the annual conference that starts Monday.

Congress hasn't yet agreed to end tax-free shopping on the Internet, but some states already are planning how they'll spend the money.

Stephen King has no plans for a digital edition of his new book, "Joyland," hoping to get more people to shop for it in a physical bookstore.