Which is safer: technology that disables a cellphone in a moving car, or that makes the conversation completely hands-free?

Investment funds are buying mortgages, trimming some of them to the benefit of homeowners, and shifting any risk to the federal government.

More than a dozen current and former executives of the aerospace group EADS and its Airbus subsidiary will testify before a French regulator this week in a high-profile insider-trading inquiry that dates to 2006.

Companies that were once content to fight in store aisles and on commercials are choosing a different route — formal grievances challenging their competitors’ claims.

Day in, day out, Norman Radow deals with the unpleasantries of the real estate mess. He works for lenders to revive developments gone awry.

SAS, the giant private company that specializes in business intelligence software, is facing new rivals, as well as free alternatives to some of its products.

The conservative firebrand Glenn Beck is planning voter registration drives and rallies, but he is cautious about how he might directly support particular candidates.

Many investors take wrong turns because they are swayed by emotion and assume that recent performance will predict the future.

The Haggler confronts card issuers over his own unmarked bill and a reader’s unexpected finance charge.

A group of start-up marketers see value in getting regular people to send a sentence or two of text to their friends and admirers.