Venture Capital Magazine

The traditional idea of retirement — an end-of-life period of leisure and personal pursuits —is becoming a vestige of bygone days. The new plan: keep working. By John W. Schoen.

Zack Wirth realized more than 15 years ago that the economics of ranching would not let him make a living on his ancestral home, a scenic slice of western Montana tucked in the Rocky Mountains.

Auto dealers around the country report that the first weekend of the billion “cash for clunkers” program, officially titled the Cash Allowance Rebate System, is off to a good start.

Americans are looking past the stock market surge and signs of a stabilizing economy and focusing on something more personal — job worries.

A widely watched index shows home prices posted their first monthly increase since the summer of 2006, indicating prices are finally stabilizing.

Sprint Nextel Corp. is intensifying its focus on the fast-growing market for prepaid cell phone service with a 3 million deal to buy Virgin Mobile USA Inc.

A lawyer for victims of Bernard Madoff’s fraud says Madoff told him during a 4 1/2-hour jailhouse interview in North Carolina exactly how the fraud took place.

Microsoft and Yahoo could soon announce a search partnership, sources familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal which reported the news on the paper’s Web site.

Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday it is planning to open its first two retail stores in Arizona and California this fall.

Mixed reports on the economy and earnings Monday sent the stock market drifting lower and easing off a two-week rally that lifted major indexes 11 percent.