Mitt Romney has now taken a 6-point lead over President Obama in the battleground state of Florida.

The Wall Street Journal analyzes what went wrong with Facebook’s initial public offering.

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Lenovo Group, the world’s second-largest personal computer maker, said Wednesday its quarterly profit rose 59 percent over a year earlier on record sales.

Standard & Poor’s Indices said Monday that it is adding the stock of drug developer Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Here are some key developments in Google’s Inc.’s planned acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.:

Targeting Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital “is what this campaign is going to be about,” he says.

Apple chief executive Tim Cook topped the list of the best-paid CEOs in the US in 2011 thanks to stock options that put him more than $300 million above his next rival, a Wall Street Journal survey showed Monday.

US shares racked up strong gains Monday with the Nasdaq adding nearly 2.5 percent helped by an Apple surge, but Facebook shares flipped below their IPO price on their first full day of trading.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The chief executives of Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd are used to running the show at their global tech empires, but they will be in for a different experience when they arrive at a San Francisco federal courthouse on Monday. Apple’s Tim Cook and Samsung’s Choi Gee-sung, whose companies are embroiled in bitter patent litigation, have been instructed by a federal judge to appear for court-supervised mediation.

A look at the main issues for the NATO alliance at the summit meeting for heads of government in Chicago on Sunday and Monday.

Authorities in China have approved Google Inc.’s bid to buy phone maker Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the $12.5 billion deal to close early next week.

(Reuters) – Google said on Saturday that Chinese authorities have approved its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings, the last regulatory hurdle to a deal that would allow the world’s No. 1 Internet search engine to develop its own line of smart phones. Google, which will be the newest entrant to the handset market, announced plans for the acquisition last year in a bid to secure Motorola’s valuable patents and pave the way for a pairing of Google’s Android mobile software and Motorola’s handset business.

Google on Saturday said that Chinese regulators approved its $12.5 billion deal to buy Motorola Mobility, clearing the path for the Internet titan to complete the acquisition early next week.

Mourners gathered at a modest stone church north of New York City for the funeral of Mary Richardson Kennedy.

Three men arrested earlier this week when police raided a Chicago apartment were being held Saturday on terrorism conspiracy charges, accused of trying to make Molotov cocktails ahead of the NATO summit.

CAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama pledged at a summit on Saturday to work with Europe on a package that balances growth with debt reduction as world leaders try to prevent the worsening euro zone crisis from destabilizing the global economy

Three men arrested earlier this week when police raided a Chicago apartment were being held on terrorism conspiracy charges Saturday stemming from allegations that they tried to make Molotov cocktails ahead of the NATO summit, but the first major dress rehearsal of this weekend’s large-scale protests was relatively peaceful.