Mark Brooks

CEO Jan Koum insisted that there are no designs to add "marketing" to the messaging service.

Could GoPro eventually become more of a media company than a manufacturer?

Nissan wants to study how its electric vehicle business fits with a developing nation that has substantial clean energy resources.

Critics note that a major attraction for car manufacturers are Mexico's low and stagnant wages.

The Fed on Friday released hundreds of pages of transcripts covering its 14 meetings during 2008 -- eight regularly scheduled meetings and six emergency sessions.

The Pew Research Center, working with the Social Media Research Foundation and using a special software tool, analyzed and mapped millions of public tweets, retweets, hashtags and replies.

Fannie said Friday that its full-year profit of $84 billion for 2013 was boosted by rising home prices and an accounting move capitalizing on tax benefits.

For me, the world's largest social network has become a junkyard of updates from people I don't really know and ads for products I don't care about.

In announcing that it will ask manufacturers to submit bids for the new cars, BNSF indicated it was unwilling to wait for the government to finalize regulations on improved tank cars.

They can develop engine problems and catch fire.

The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that the Marcellus Shale now provides about 18% of the nation's natural gas.

WhatsApp has more than 450 million monthly active users and 70% of those people are active on a given day.

Officials weighed the need to stress to investors that the Fed's key short-term interest rate would remain near zero.

The company is hoping it can make more money from ads and other services if faster connections and a proliferation of computing devices can make the Internet even more addictive than it already is for tens of millions of people.

The expectation is that housing construction will rise for a fifth consecutive year, helped by further gains in employment and relatively low mortgage rates.

Beijing is stepping up scrutiny of foreign companies under its 6-year-old anti-monopoly, anti-bribery and other laws.

Sands said hackers crashed its email system and stole employees' Social Security numbers. But a video posted online appears to catalog stolen information that goes much further.

It was the last of the nation's major tobacco companies to market the battery-powered devices that heat a liquid nicotine solution, creating vapor that users inhale.

The customer uses the app to make purchases by tapping the phone to a store's card reader.

All told, the changes will double the index's coverage to more than 75% of the economy.