Online retailer Amazon is giving away 10 Kindle Fire tablets and $250 Amazon gift cards through a Facebook promotional contest.

HarperCollins is quickly cornering the Christian book publishing market. The company announced Monday that it entered into a definitive agreement to buy Thomas Nelson, Inc. for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of the year.

Groupon filed a lawsuit against two former sales managers it says took secrets from the company to rival Google Deals. Groupon sued Brian Hanna and Michael Nolan, citing the disclosure of trade secrets is inevitable while they work at Google

Children of God for Life, a nonprofit pro-life organization, announced on Tuesday that it filed a shareholder resolution last week calling on PepsiCo to stop using an aborted fetal cell line in its research and development activities.

The World Bank released their ninth annual "Doing Business" report on Wednesday which ranks 183 countries in different aspects of the business model and determines how “business-friendly” they are.

Ben & Jerry’s new flavor of ice cream is getting a chilly response from retailers. Some supermarkets are now refusing to carry its latest spoon bender, “Schweddy Balls.”

The iPhone 4S released on Oct. 14 and has aided the Sprint network in having its best first day of sales ever.

More than 150 Gap stores in the United States will be closed by the end of 2013, executives said Thursday at an investor meeting in New York.

Google announced its third-quarter financial results on Thursday, revealing that, in addition to a financial quarter that exceeded expectations, the Google+ social network now has 40 million users.

Bank of America has announced plans to start charging customers a $5 monthly fee for transactions in which a debit card is used. The policy, said to be a result of legislation known as the "Durbin Amendment," is not unique to BofA, as several other financial institutions plan to follow suit with similar programs.