Members of the band War say they can't be friends with Pepsi. The band is suing for more than $10 million, saying it did not negotiate with them to use the song "Why Can't We Be Friends" in a commercial.

Pepsi - Funk - Why Can't We Be Friends? - Musical ensemble - Soda

A large building-maintenance company will pay $5.8 million to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the government involving 21 Hispanic female workers.


ABM Industries - Violence and Abuse - Harassment - Sexual harassment - Lawsuit

Dell walked away from a bidding contest with rival Hewlett-Packard for data-storage maker 3Par. Dell said it won't match HP's offer to pay $33 per share for 3Par.



Hewlett-Packard - Dell - 3PAR - Hardware - HP

CEOs of the 50 firms that have laid off the most workers since the onset of the economic crisis in 2008 took home 42 percent more pay in 2009 than their peers, a new report finds.

Chief executive officer - Financial crisis - Layoff - United States - Law

The former chief of Lehman Brothers told a panel investigating the financial crisis that the Wall Street firm could have been rescued, but regulators' refused to helps.

Lehman Brothers - Wall Street - United States - Financial crisis - Business

Burger King, the No. 2 U.S. hamburger chain, has been considering a possible sale and has held talks with potential buyers, a source familiar with the situation says.


Burger King - Hamburger - 3i - Business - Private equity

Facebook  Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg says a lawsuit by a man who claims to own a huge chunk of the social networking site is seeking to uncover needless details about his private life.


Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg - Social network service - Chief executive officer - Social network

Mark Hurd, who was ousted as CEO of Hewlett Packard Co. following allegations of sexual harassment, will not run for re-election to News Corp.'s board of directors.


Mark Hurd - Hewlett-Packard - Board of directors - HP - Violence and Abuse

A mixed picture of U.S. banks emerged as the industry posted its highest quarterly earnings in nearly three years while the number of troubled institutions grew by more than 50.


United States - Business - Financial Services - Banking Services - Directories

Judy Rivers went to the bank with a simple request last April: She wanted to open a safe deposit box. The response, while equally simple, was a complete surprise. The bank turned her down. Why? She was dead. And she couldn't get anyone to believe otherwise. So began a mysterious red tape journey that she says has led to multiple denials of credit, extreme difficulty in accessing her own money, and at one point, a confrontation with police that nearly landed her in jail.


Bank - Financial services - Business - Banking Services - Banks and Institutions

Google Inc. has retained the right to publish content from The Associated Press under a new licensing deal that thaws the sometimes-frosty relationship between the two companies.


Google - Search - Search Engines - Companies - Tools

3M Co., which makes products ranging from Post-Its to respirators, computer arms, and films for LCD TV screens, said Monday it has agreed to acquire Cogent Inc. in a deal worth about $943 million.

Cogent Inc - 3M - Business - United States - Biometrics

Elizabeth Warren is folksy and plain-spoken and favors cardigans over Washington power suits. Many on Wall Street view her as their worst nightmare but she is a hero to liberal activists and consumer groups.

Elizabeth Warren - Wall Street - Liberalism - Washington D.C. - Washington

During Cindy Cool's almost daily visits to the nursing home, she would routinely find her Alzheimer's-suffering father wearing urine-soaked clothes.


Nursing home - Health - Nursing - Home care - Alzheimer

With gold a fashionable hedge against turbulent times, one billionaire is doing everything he can to get his hands on the actual stuff.

Thomas Kaplan - Gold - Mining - Technology - Prospecting

Bank of America Corp. says its online banking service was down for about four hours but service has been restored.


Online banking - Bank of America - Financial services - Business - Banking Services

The Justice Department says it has closed its investigation into the proposed merger of UAL Corp. and Continental Airlines Inc.


Continental Airlines - UAL Corporation - United States - Justice Department - Airline