A senior Senate Democrat said on Wednesday a planned economic stimulus package will likely include money and tax breaks for doctors and hospitals to buy advanced technology that will make it easier for them to share patient care information. Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat, said at a news conference that lawmakers were

A Google executive will depart in January to join LinkedIn, the professional social networking company said on Wednesday. Dipchand "Deep" Nishar will be vice president of products for the company, which until now has focused on social networking, a LinkedIn spokesman said. Nishar was most recently Google's senior director of products, Asia-Pacific. A Google spokesman

Yahoo Inc on Wednesday revised an expensive employee and executive severance plan it had adopted following a takeover bid by Microsoft Corp, settling a lawsuit brought by shareholders. The new terms cut the potential costs to an acquirer and make clear that the sale of Yahoo's search business — which Microsoft still covets — would

Over 6,000 Bosnians joined in less than 48 hours a group on social networking site Facebook which wants to shut down a Serb nationalist group celebrating the massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica. The group, created on Monday under the name "Close Group Noz Zica Srebrenica," alerted administrators about the language of hatred against Muslims

Moody's Investors Service has changed the outlook on Lebanon's sovereign ratings to ‘positive’ from ‘stable’. These are the B3 local and foreign currency government bond ratings, the B3 country ceiling for foreign currency bank deposits, and the B2 country ceiling for foreign currency bonds. "The change in outlook was motivated by the proven resilience of

European shares moved lower in early trade on Thursday, snapping a three-session winning run on renewed concerns over the health of the global economy and on uncertainties surrounding Washington's auto rescue plan. By 0810 GMT the pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index was down 0.5 percent at 855.81 points. Pharmaceuticals extended losses from the previous session, when

German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck has criticised countries for rushing through what he called crass and untested economic rescue packages at a "breathtaking and depressing" pace. In an interview with Newsweek magazine, Steinbrueck urged governments to pause before pledging to spend billions of dollars on plans to try and help their economies emerge from the