Health Care
  • Coty withdraws $10.7 billion offer to buy Avon

    Coty withdraws $10.7 billion offer to buy Avon

    By Phil Wahba, Reuters

    (Reuters) - Fragrance company Coty Inc withdrew its $10.7 billion takeover bid for Avon Products Inc on Monday, saying the world's largest cosmetics direct seller had missed a deadline to start...

  • Brown pushes tax hike as California's money woes deepen

    Brown pushes tax hike as California's money woes deepen

    By Jim Christie, Reuters

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown was elected in 2010 on a promise to fix the state's chronic fiscal crisis. His weekend announcement of a much bigger-than-expected shortfall...

  • Some secrecy needed in trade talks: Ron Kirk

    Some secrecy needed in trade talks: Ron Kirk

    By Doug Palmer, Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is being as open as possible about international negotiations to create a nine-nation free trade agreement in the Asia-Pacific region but has to maintain some...

  • FDA Cuts a Deal to Fast Track Drugs and Devices

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    In a rare show of unanimity, Democrats and Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously approved a suite of new and higher user fees on the pharmaceutical, medical device, and...

  • Insight: Salesforce's plan for opulent campus a costly debacle

    Insight: Salesforce's plan for opulent campus a costly debacle

    By Gerry Shih and Jim Finkle, Reuters

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - In early 2010, Marc Benioff, founder and chief executive of Salesforce.com, summoned several of his top real estate and finance executives to his San Francisco home to float...