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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is considering stepping down later this year, but will not make a decision until contentious negotiations over the U.S. debt ceiling are completed, people familiar with his thinking said on Thursday.

Geithner said he would remain in his Treasury post "for the foreseeable future" and...

ST. LOUIS (Reuters) – A top Federal Reserve official said on Thursday large-scale bond buying can be an effective monetary policy substitute when the central bank runs out of room to cut interest rates.

Speaking on the final day of the Fed's latest bond-buying initiative, St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard pronounced the purchases,...

(Reuters) – Citigroup Inc (C.N) has entered into exclusive talks with a bidding group to sell its OneMain consumer lending unit formerly known as CitiFinancial, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.

The company recently agreed to negotiate exclusively with the consortium consisting of private-equity investment...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks ended a volatile quarter on Thursday with their biggest four-day rally since September as positive economic data and a temporary resolution of Greece's debt crisis indicated further gains in July.

Midwest business activity showed surprising strength this month, lifted by a jump in new orders, the Institute for...

Cracking the TDL-4 botnet is going to be hard, say security experts.

More than four million PCs have been enrolled in a botnet security experts say is almost "indestructible".

The botnet, known as TDL, targets Windows PCs and is difficult to detect and shut down.

Code that hijacks a PC hides...

By Dan Whitworth
Newsbeat technology reporter

One of the world's largest online poker sites has been suspended.

Full Tilt Poker, an American-run site registered on the Channel Island of Alderney, has been closed down by the authorities there.

A US investigation into money laundering,...

Jonathan Worth's photograph of blogger and Creative Commons supporter Cory Doctorow

A campaign has been launched to help people avoid breaking the law when they post pictures, music and videos online.

Copyright group Creative Commons has published a guide to identifying material that can be...

Some people might say my presentations are a bit "different".  I just think I enjoy an "energized" presentation like everyone else, and I know when open source folks are asked to listen to a keynote at 9am on a Saturday, something more than coffee is needed to keep them awake.  So I'm keen on doing my best to keep the audience happy with a bit of C...