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Google Inc.’s decision to stop censoring search engine results in China and potentially shut down its local Web site may prevent it from selling its new mobile phone in the world’s largest market.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein tesitified today that he was never asked to accept a discount on investment contracts his firm had with American International Group Inc.

Google defied the Chinese government by saying it will end self-censorship of its search engine and may quit the market after attacks on e-mail accounts of human-rights activists

President Obama will announce he intends to impose a fee on more than 20 large banks and financial institutions to help recoup taxpayer bailout funds and cut the deficit

The search giant has clashed with Chinese authorities and says other large companies have been targeted by the "highly sophisticated" attacks. It also plans to stop censoring search results in China

Google Inc.’s announcement that it wishes to avoid censoring its Chinese search engine “is an important step to protect human rights online,” New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement.

Google Inc., which said yesterday it may shut its Chinese Web site, informed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week on the situation, a senior U.S. official familiar with the matter said.

John Thain, who was Merrill Lynch & Co.’s chief executive officer before being ousted a year ago, has held talks to become the head of CIT Group Inc., the commercial lender that emerged from bankruptcy last month, according to people familiar with the matter.

Daimler AG, the world’s second- largest maker of luxury vehicles, plans to challenge Bayerische Motoren Werke AG’s leadership by rolling out new technology and models that reduce carbon-dioxide emissions.

President Barack Obama plans to raise as much as $120 billion through a fee on financial institutions to help recoup losses from the Troubled Asset Relief Program and reduce the deficit, according to an administration official.

The bank's reputation remains strong among aspiring MBAs, despite fierce public criticism linking Goldman Sachs to the financial crisis

President Obama may propose a fee on financial-services companies as a way to cut the budget deficit in half, administration officials say

President Obama is considering a fee on financial services companies as a way to cut the federal deficit, an administration official says

Daimler AG’s two-year effort to win over U.S. drivers with a plastic-clad minicar is running out of steam

Toyota Motor Corp., the largest seller of gasoline-electric autos, said a small hybrid car may be the first of a U.S. lineup using the Prius name and it will add eight hybrids within a few years.

Chrysler Group LLC, the U.S. automaker run by Fiat SpA, offered a glimpse of plans for future technology sharing by displaying variants of two of the Italian company’s models.

Daimler AG’s two-year effort to win over U.S. drivers with a thrifty, plastic-clad minicar is running out of steam, adding urgency to the German automaker’s effort to find a partner for the Smart brand.

Ford Motor Co. says it improved the redesigned Focus compact with safety and fuel-saving features like those found on Porsche SE sports coupes. Now the automaker must persuade consumers to pay more for a small car.

An unexpected decrease in jobs brings unemployment to 10% and signals labor-market improvement will be halting

An unexpected decrease in U.S. jobs in December signals that improvement in the labor market will be halting