McDonald’s has apologized and pulled an ad that came back to bite it. The ad said eating a Chicken McBite was less risky than petting a stray pit bull, shaving your head, naming your son Sue or giving friends your Facebook password. It enraged pit bull owners and their supporters. The radio ad for Chicken [...]

Ms Sandberg is already the highest-paid executive at Facebook. Her $30.87m (£19.5m) pay packet last year made Mr Zuckerberg’s $1.5m look paltry, and that gulf will widen from 2013, when the Facebook founder takes a dramatic pay cut to a nominal annual salary of $1. Meanwhile, Ms Sandberg, who already holds 1.9m shares in the [...]

CARSON CITY — The Howard Hughes Corp. has filed a lawsuit in District Court seeking to have the assessed value lowered by more than $50 million on 5,541 acres of undeveloped land in the Summerlin area. The original value of the land was placed by $249.3 million by the Clark County assessor, but the county [...]

Retailers pulled out all the stops to lure foot traffic on Black Friday. Now, they’ve battling for consumer dollars in cyberspace.Cyber Monday is likely to be the biggest day for online sales this year. So how can you score the best deals on Cyber Monday? Here are six tips: 1) Get informed. For starters, check [...]

OYAMA-CHO, Japan (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp <7203.T> unveiled a highly anticipated sports car that it hopes will trigger the rebirth of the company as a maker of “fun” cars that it hasn’t been in years. Japan’s top automaker took the wraps off the compact, rear-wheel-drive model at the Fuji Speedway circuit at the foot [...]

YouTube is teaming up with media companies to produce original content in its latest bid to boost the amount of professional material on the video-sharing site, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The newspaper said Google-owned YouTube is expected to announce as early as next week that it has signed partnerships with media companies and [...]

IBM named Virginia Rometty, the head of sales, marketing and strategy, to take over as chief executive on January 1, making her the first woman to head the legendary US computer company. Rometty, 54, who is also a senior vice president at IBM, will take over from current president and chief executive Samuel Palmisano, 60, [...]

Overseas education gives students the opportunity to enhance traditional academic experiences while increasing cultural awareness and tolerance. Students who study abroad often develop a deeper understanding of the world, and learn skills that contribute to both personal growth and career marketability. Many employers seek diversified employees who can communicate well with others and who have [...]

It’s Black Friday in the United States, but Amazon this morning revealed a couple of deals that it will be running from Cyber Monday and/or the next few days (specifically, starting at midnight on Sunday, November 27, through the end of next week). The company is selling a $79 Kindle, a $99 Kindle Touch, a [...]

Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) — Rovio Entertainment Oy, the creator of the “Angry Birds” mobile-phone games, will open its first retail stores this year in China, its fastest-growing market. The company aims to hit $100 million in retail sales in China in the first year of store operations, Chief Marketing Officer Peter Vesterbacka said at the [...]