United Parcel Service Inc. and the Teamsters union said Tuesday they have agreed to open talks this month on a new contract. The current, five-year contract expires July 31.
Datastream Systems Inc.'s board rejected MRO Software Inc.'s $6-a-share hostile takeover bid, and said it expects to exceed consensus fourth-quarter earnings and total revenue estimates.
David E. Easterly, vice chairman of Cox Enterprises Inc. and a former publisher of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, said Tuesday he is retiring after 32 years at the company.
The terrorist attacks and the slipping economy combined to cause the biggest drop in mail volume in more than 30 years, the Postal Service reported Tuesday.
Dave Thomas, the portly pitchman whose homespun ads built Wendy's Old-Fashioned Hamburgers into one of the world's most successful fast-food enterprises, has died. He was 69.
Wells Fargo & Co. is poised to introduce a discount service for wiring money to Mexico, the latest move in the banking giant's courtship of the steadily growing Hispanic population in the United States.
An official in Georgia's carpet industry says the state's top carpet makers will be affected by Sears' departure from the carpet business - but only for the short term.
A 17-year-old has agreed to turn over some $900,000 he allegedly swindled from investors in a sports betting scheme he ran on the Internet, the government announced.
