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By Ben Fritz
Fox Filmed Entertainment co-chairman Tom Rothman, who has led the News Corp.-owned studio together with partner Jim Gianopulos since 2000, is...
By Michael Hiltzik
Love it or hate it, the one thing you can say for sure about California's ballot initiative process is that it's the absolute worst way to craft...
By Alex Pham
Gamers could become winners in a price war this holiday as console manufacturers slug it out for scarce consumer dollars, according to a report...
By Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles Times
SACRAMENTO — The days of most tax-free Internet shopping in California are over.
By Chad Terhune, Los Angeles Times
A wave of consolidation among hospitals and physician groups has drawn scrutiny from the California attorney general's office amid concerns that these...
By Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles Times
SACRAMENTO — Whole Foods Market, the largest U.S. natural-goods specialty retailer, has endorsed a California initiative that would require...
Associated Press
The Food and Drug Administration is detaining mango imports from a Mexican packinghouse after the company's mangoes were linked to salmonella...
By Danielle Ryan, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled House approved a bill Friday that would limit the Energy Department's power to issue loan guarantees...
Bloomberg News
Apple Inc. has won a round in a U.S. International Trade Commission case brought by Samsung Electronics Co. over patented technology in the iPhone and...
Associated Press
Stocks are closing higher, propelled for a second day by the Federal Reserve's plans to try to energize the economy.
By Tiffany Hsu
A report that several private equity firms -- including original investor Bain Capital -- are considering buying Staples Inc. pushed the office supply...
By Jerry Hirsch, Los Angeles Times
It turns out that the cost of driving a car in California isn't higher than in most other states — in fact, it is right in the middle, according...
By Alejandro Lazo, Los Angeles Times
California's housing market showed strength in August with sales posting their best showing for that month in six years and prices holding steady.
By Jim Puzzanghera
WASHINGTON -- The gas pump helped the economy last month and also hurt it.
Associated Press
A senior trader at the Swiss bank UBS was a "master fraudster" who lost his bank $2.3 billion, imperiling its very existence, through risky deals...
Associated Press
UnitedHealth Group, the health insurance company, will replace Kraft Foods in the Dow Jones industrial average, the most widely known barometer of the...
Associated Press
Home Depot Inc., the U.S.-based home improvement retailer, said Friday it will close its remaining seven big box outlets in China and focus on...
By Andrea Chang and Salvador Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
CUPERTINO, Calif. — A dock connector may not seem like a controversial feature, but for some consumers it could be the difference between buying...
By Dawn C. Chmielewski, Los Angeles Times
Internet video giant YouTube has found itself drawn into a global drama being played out in violent Mideast protests over a 14-minute video trailer...
By Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times
In the early days of California's oil boom, derricks crowded beaches, covered hillsides and dominated cityscapes. If a road was in the way of the oil,...
By Alejandro Lazo, Los Angeles Times
Southern California's housing market finished out the summer on fire, with the region's median home price climbing to a four-year high and sales...
By Don Lee and Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve took its strongest step to date to try to bolster the sluggish U.S. job market, launching a new stimulus...
By David Lazarus
Question: When is a contract not worth the paper it's printed on?
By Ricardo Lopez, Los Angeles Times
Beef Products Inc., a South Dakota meat company whose lean, finely textured beef product was dubbed "pink slime" this year, has sued ABC News for...
By Amy Kaufman
“Finding Nemo’s” 3-D re-release should go swimmingly at the box office this weekend, as the animated film is expected to debut at...
By Ben Fritz
Walt Disney Co. will take a $50 million write-down in the current fiscal quarter for a stop-motion animation project it canceled in August.
By Alex Pham, Los Angeles Times
It's game on for the battle of the next-generation consoles.
By Richard Verrier
The industry's chief lobbying group wants to do a better job of telling Hollywood's story.
By Hugo Martín, Los Angeles Times
Airfares have inched up again.
By Jerry Hirsch
Toyota said the electric version of its RAV4 sport utility vehicle goes on sale the last week of this month at a price close to $50,000 before...