Secured lenders at Texas Competitive Electric Holdings and unsecured bondholders at Energy Future Intermediate Holdings (EFIH) were in a deadlock about their confidentiality agreements due to Energy Future Holdings' USD250 bond debt payments due on November 1.

15 US states had been using risk assessment software to decide on handing out paroles to prisoner candidates, said a Wall Street Journal report.

Industry observers believed that USPS would be able to achieve success similar to Royal Mail should the former would be listed on the stock exchange.

Frontier Beverage Company Inc announced today that it had completed its acquisition of holding company 22 Social Club Productions Inc and its subsidiaries Blue 22 Entertainment and AppQwest LLC

Twitter Inc co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey reportedly was not the one who had let go of co-founder Noah Glass.

Investors might not had been receptive of Facebook Inc's acquisition of Israeli mobile data analytics firm Onavo as stocks of the social media fell 1.5% in pre-market trading today.

TRAFI, a Lithuanian Journey planner startup, received a USD500,000 in investment capital from Practica Capital to expand into key markets unexplored by big players like Google Maps.

Job outsourcing marketplace Freelancer.com had filed for a public listing on the Australian Stock Exchange, according to the company's announcement today.

A flurry of pension fund buyouts was projected to happen in the next succeeding years, according to industry analysts.

The new fund of private equity firm Cudos Capital, which is co-founded by former Austrian chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer, would seek to raise EUR150 million.

Investors were forced to short sell, or sell securities it does not own, due to the prolonged partial government shutdown.

Analysts predicted that the Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) AG's move to withdraw its expansion plans in South Africa could affect the country's economy.

According to pundits and observers, Berkshire Hathaway Inc chief Warren Buffett had resorted to a different management approach in hiring new chief executives for his business units.

Data management firm Identity Finder said the browser cache of Google Chrome could store a user's personal information.

The USD100,000 aid that should had been given to families of four US soldiers that were recently killed in Afghanistan would be delayed due to the partial government shutdown.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman's recent email to its over 300,000 employees had stressed the need for the company to work harder and regain the top spot in the corporate technology services market.

Chesapeake Energy Corp chief executive officer Doug Lawler had started trimming company's assets and expenses to shift the company's focus to its core business.

According to a Reuters report, world leaders should not ignore issues surrounding global economic security.

Janet Yellen's nomination for the role of chief of US Federal Reserve would add her to the list of women who shape the US economy primarily dominated by men.

Facebook Inc's investors including the social media company director Peter Thiel were not confident about the company's performance post-IPO.

Major broadcasters including Fox Television Stations had appealed to the Supreme Court in the hopes of stopping the streaming services of tech startup Aereo.

US Federal Reserve Chairman nominee Janet Yellen saw no problem in tackling both issues in US unemployment and monetary policies.

Google Inc's planned user endorsement ads could be opt out by its customers in a few simple steps.

Social marketing tech startup Bread was acquired by Yahoo Inc to improve revenue potential of its ad products.

Molecular diagnostic test developer CardioDx Inc, who pioneered the heart disease test product Corus CAD, was set to raise almost USD86 million via a planned initial public offering.

Payment processing company Dwolla told its customers through an email statement it would no longer accept Bitcoin currency starting the end of this month.

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd issued a statement to deny reports of its acquisition of Fingerprint Cards AB for USD650 million.

Users of Apple Inc's iPhone 5S displayed a blue screen of death initially thought to be only available on Microsoft Corp's Windows.

An African news outlet said in its report that Sanlam Emerging Markets (SEM) had started its negotiations with Nico Holdings over buying a 49% in its short-term insurance business unit Nico Life Insurance.

Retail buyouts and mergers lead by foreign exchange market broker FXCM Inc had been seen proliferating in the midst of closures of some of the biggest hedge funds in the US and European Union.