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For years, BlackBerrys were the only mobile devices corporate IT departments allowed past their gates. Now those heavily guarded doors are swinging wide open to all kinds of personal gizmos, including iPhones, iPads, Android gadgets and more.
The trend has obvious advantages: Businesses get to cut expenses by having their employees use their […]

Jessica Mellow waited in line for more than 180 hours — that’s eight straight days — for an iPhone 5. She was woken up by cops, “showered” in a torrential downpour, and watched two taxis collide right in front of the growing crowd outside Apple’s gleaming retail cube on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue.
On […]

Hostess Brands, the maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread, said Friday that it would seek a court order to force a new contract on one of its unions and stave off its demise.
The announcement came after one of the company’s major unions, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, voted narrowly to accept the […]

The number of people filing for their first week of unemployment benefits rose to the highest level since July, the government said Thursday, in another sign of a weakness in the jobs market.
The Labor Department said 382,000 people filed first-time jobless claims in the week ended Sept. 8. That was sharply higher […]

Industry analysts are already predicting that Apple’s iPhone 5, widely expected to be unveiled on Wednesday, will be the best-selling smartphone of all time. Each new iPhone has outsold the previous version, and the iconic device has been the top-selling mobile phone since its 2007 debut.
That raises the question: How much longer […]

The U.S. Department of Justice is accusing oil company BP of gross negligence and a “culture of corporate recklessness,’ in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a charge that could significantly increase the damages BP could be forced to pay in the case.
In a federal court filing Friday, the DOJ said […]