President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said he would submit a revised 2013 budget in May that would include a fuel price increase, but would also revive a cash compensation program for poor families.

Robert E. Diamond Jr. has gone from leading Barclays to riding a subway to an office in exile. | Morgan Stanley houses loans made to its financial advisers outside its broker-dealer unit, allowing the ...

Language translation apps have improved because more people are using them, allowing the software to make more accurate associations with sounds, text and meaning.

Tiling your bathroom floor (if you dare), yoga after 50, the cellphone industry looks the other way as handset thefts grow and other consumer-focused news from The New York Times.

The European Central Bank on Thursday cut its benchmark interest rate to a record low, a mostly symbolic move that is unlikely to jolt the Continent out of recession.

Police officials say the cellphone industry has not done enough with technology to stanch the ever-rising numbers of handset thefts, Brian X. Chen and Malia Wollan report in The New York Times.

The activist investment firm Knight Vinke said in a letter that risky trading activity in the investment banking unit posed a threat to UBS’s wealth management business, and should be separated from the ...

Is there ever a good reason for a fast-growth company to hire a consultant?

Royal Dutch Shell reported slightly better-than-expected first-quarter earnings and its chief executive, Peter Voser, announced that he would retire next year.

The best defense yet of megabanks is still not persuasive, an economist writes.

The German automaker said heavy discounts in its core European market and technology costs curbed profits from rising car sales in the first quarter.

Lending Club plans to announce that Google led a $125 million deal to buy a stake in the company from existing investors.

The Walt Disney Company has ordered an end to production of branded merchandise in Bangladesh, and other retailers are considering similar moves.

Police officials say the cellphone and handset industry has not done enough with technology to solve the theft problem.

CBS Interactive and Univision Communications are among the companies seeking advertising dollars from Madison Avenue.

The New York Times named Carolyn Ryan, its metropolitan editor, the paper’s top political editor. She will be succeeded by one of her deputies, Wendell Jamieson.

An arbitration case shows the different choices financial firms make about where to house virtually identical assets and how those decisions can reduce costs.

The deal will make TheBlaze available to subscribers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

The Solar Impulse, a plane with the wingspan of a 747, is the creation of a Swiss team working on fuel-free flight.

Some Republicans were not happy with the president’s choice of Representative Melvin L. Watt, whose housing stance could draw scrutiny.

A landmark study of the health and care of Medicaid patients provides some striking findings, but the longer-term conclusions that can be drawn are limited.

The company said it hoped to distribute content through partnerships with Yahoo, AOL and Twitter.

Sluggishness in the film divisions countered strong performances from cable television channels.

An updated version of the jet, with lightweight carbon-composite wings and the potential to cut fuel usage by 20 percent, is being pitched to airlines and leasing companies.

Businesses added 119,000 workers, well short of the 150,000 expected by economists, possibly the result of the tight fiscal policy in Washington.

A federal court dismissed a copyright claim in which the listings company argued that it held exclusive licenses to advertisements posted on its Web site.

Toy companies are offering their very youngest customers motion-sensing, app-infused toys like the Fisher-Price Apptivity Gym.

The American arm of the ING Group, the Dutch financial services firm, priced its initial public offering at $19.50 a share, below its expected range of $21 to $24. But with nearly $1.3 billion in proceeds, ...

Before you move that grand piano or paint the wall crimson, see if you like how it looks.

Translation apps have improved because more people are using them, allowing the apps to make more accurate associations with sounds, text and meaning.

The General Motors ad included a song with lyrics that crudely referred to the Chinese. Mountain Dew’s ad involved a battered woman and a lineup with African-American men.

New results from an Oregon study found that Medicaid coverage reduced the rate of depression and made low-income adults more financially secure, if not healthier.

W. Ralph Eubanks, the current director of publishing at the Library of Congress, succeeds Ted Genoways.

The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. For Tuesday, selections include opinions, images and consumer stories about Google Glass, a report ...

Facebook reported that about 30 percent of its total advertising revenue came from mobile devices, a significant jump from the last quarter.

In Greece’s first major privatization deal since the country’s debt crisis erupted three years ago, the government will sell a controlling stake in OPAP to Emma Delta.

Kevin Clash, who left “Sesame Street” after allegations that he had sexual relationships with minors, has already won more than 20 Emmys.

Goldman Sachs has named Julian Salisbury to become head of its global special situations group, the elite division that invests in and lends to companies.

The company accused 21 people of circumventing its online security system to try to buy huge numbers of tickets to resell at a profit.

The Canon N emphasizes features that a smartphone can’t match and can transmit new photos to your phone for immediate sending or posting online.

Tom Wheeler has invested in start-up technology and communications companies, and advised the Federal Communications Commission on technology issues.

Earlier versions of the forms to apply for coverage under the new health law ran to 21 pages.

Sol Republic, maker of headphones with swappable parts, recently expanded its offerings with the introduction of over-ear headphones.

The French government’s objections to plans by Yahoo to buy a controlling stake in the video-sharing site DailyMotion has alarmed entrepreneurs in France.

Officials said that they would consider an expansion of bond-buying if conditions warranted, and added that federal budget cuts were hurting the economy.

Quarterly revenue fell at Time Warner’s magazine and movie divisions, partly offsetting gains at Turner Broadcasting and HBO.

If you have determined that none of your retailers are interested in a business, don’t you have every right to do it yourself?

The increase in truck sales fed double-digit sales growth for Detroit and kept the industry on track to sell more than 15 million vehicles this year.