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Drug companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year to influence doctors' prescribing habits -- money that often goes directly into physicians' pockets for "consulting fees" and "educational presentations." Wondering if your doc is one of them? The nonprofit journalists at ProPublica can tell you.

Consumers ought to have a lot of friends. After all it's our money that fuels business in this country - and a lot of other countries, for that matter. In about a week, the government is slated to unveil a tool for consumers that catalogs safety concerns and complaints about certain products. The...

Computer problems dogged Chase's (JPM) online banking services for a second day on Wednesday, leaving many customers frustrated. Problems first appeared on the Chase site late Monday, with customers unable to log on to their accounts. Technicians worked overnight to fix those problems by about 1...

SAP, a massive provider of business software, is making its biggest acquisition in three years with a $65-a-share offer for Sybase. The combination could be a marriage made in business heaven as the companies build on their existing partnership in mobile apps.

The European Union's support of Oracle's $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems didn't come as a big surprise, but it is a key moment for the industry -- especially for Sun, the fourth largest maker of server computers.

Having worked with computers most of my life, I've witnessed first-hand the many changes that it has brought about to our lives. I thought it would interesting to pick the 15 computer-related innovations that have most changed my life. 1. Databases -- I once had a job summer filing inventory cards...