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It's a cliche that dates back to Monopoly: A bank error in your favor. But for Parijat Saha, an Indian schoolteacher, the Community Chest card came to life in a big way when he discovered that his bank account suddenly held $9.8 billion.

New startup Booktracks is creating soundtracks for e-books with technology that tracks your reading speed and syncs the sound perfectly to the text. The company promises it will revolutionize reading, and authors like Salman Rushdie and Jay McInerney are giving it a try. But do books really need a Hollywood makeover?

For the fifth straight year, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, bested 139 other cities worldwide in ratings of "relative comfort" to hold onto the right to call itself the World's 'Most Liveable' City, according to new rankings by The Economist Intelligence Unit.

The U.S. is hardly alone in losing work to cheaper skilled labor in foreign countries. Australia, Canada and Israel, among others, have dropped off Gartner's list of the top 30 countries for outsourcing. Here's where IT and business-processing jobs are heading.

After filmmakers last week threatened to shoot "The Hobbit" films elsewhere, New Zealand has come up with $25 million in incentives to keep production in the country. The prequels to the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, which also was filmed in New Zealand, will start filming early next year.

Packaging company Pactiv Corporation (PTV) agreed to be purchased by Reynolds Group Holdings Ltd in a deal worth about $6 billion. Pactiv shareholders will receive $33.25 in cash for each share of Pactiv common stock, a premium of about 39% over the stock's closing price on May 14, 2010, Pactiv...

News-release service Business Wire said a press release about Javelin Pharmaceuticals that it published Friday has been identified as a hoax. If you feel like you've seen this movie before, you're right. Last week, PR Newswire got fooled by a fake press release about General Mills.

You can deal with future dollar declines by gaining exposure to foreign currencies -- either by investing in the currencies themselves, or by buying stocks in companies whose earnings aren't denominated in dollars.

The "happy cows" advertisements sponsored by the California Milk Advisory Board (CMAB) always have me wondering if the state's agriculture department isn't colluding with the tourism department (those ads where California's famous residents complain about how hard they're working, as they surf and...

When advertisers slash spending, ad-dependent newspaper companies cut costs by reducing the number of pages they print. Billboard owners aren't as lucky. They're stuck with the unsold ad space. During past recessions, that space would stand empty, aside from bleak black type declaring "Available."...