Finally, someone in the government is suggesting steering some tax dollars where they should have been steered all along: Toward building a national digital infrastructure that will make America less of an embarrassment relative to the rest of the developed world.

February was hardly an ideal month for retailers: snowstorms blanketed many parts of the country, and car dealerships faced an uproar over safety concerns.

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Photographer Andreas Gursky is known for capturing massive, impossibly-large subjects, but for his latest project, not even the widest-angled lens on the planet would do. n a new show that opened last week at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, Gurksy worked for the first time with satellite imagery as his raw materials for the series named Ocean. Utah Wedding Photography

Everyone knows it takes green to go green. Now it seems some investors are discovering that taking an environmentally aware approach to property investing could make them some green in the not-too long run.

General Motors Co. will keep making big trucks and SUVs because U.S. buyers demand them, but a major portion of them will be gas-electric hybrids in the near future.

Information on 15,000 HSBC customers with Swiss accounts has been stolen, the British bank said Thursday, potentially exposing foreign clients to prosecution by tax authorities in their home countries.

March 11 -- U.S. Representative Ron Paul, a Texas Republican, talks with Bloomberg's Lori Rothman about the outlook for financial regulation and the Federal Reserve's authority.

RF Monolithics, Inc ., a major player in machine-to-machine wireless communications, released news that it had secured a multi-year agreement with a major medical equipment manufacturer for its ultra-low power short-range radio, the Virtual Wire transceiver.

Federal regulators are pledging a rigorous review of the proposed combination of Comcast Corp.