Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday said Kevin Johnson, the executive in charge of its Windows and Web operations and an instrumental player in the company's failed $47.5 billion bid to buy Yahoo Inc., is leaving the company.

Shares in Costco fell nearly 12 percent in Wednesday trading, dropping $8.57 to close at $63.43. Costco will report its fourth-quarter earnings on Oct. 8.

The answer is critical to millions of American homeowners who are watching their home equity melt away or are unable to move because falling values have sent potential buyers to the sidelines. Even if you don?t own a home, the...

Microsoft last week traveled to San Francisco, rounding up Windows XP users who had negative impressions of Vista. The subjects were put on video, asked about their Vista impressions, and then shown a "new" operating system,...

Apart from becoming more and more unpleasant, recently business travel is also becoming far less necessary. With videoconferencing technologies improving and fuel prices rising, more businessmen and women seem to be choosing the...

The House approved a sweeping plan Wednesday to ease the country's most serious housing crisis since the Great Depression by providing aid to homeowners facing foreclosure and a federal backstop for struggling mortgage giants...

Washington Mutual Inc., the biggest U.S. savings and loan, fell 20 percent in New York trading after failing to convince some analysts that it has enough cash to weather more declines in the housing market.

Boeing announced a second-quarter profit of $852 million, which was down from its profit of $1.05 billion in the same quarter last year. Revenues were down a fraction of a percentage point, falling to $16.96 billion from $17.03...

The Seattle company beat Wall Street expectations, and its stock climbed more than 8 percent, to surpass $76 in after-hours trading on Wednesday.

The aspiring buyers of Washington's largest utility agreed to put an additional $200 million of their own money into the proposed $7.8 billion acquisition as part of an agreement with several groups critical of the planned sale...

The nominee to lead the Air Force said Tuesday a recent report detailing numerous problems with a $35 billion tanker contract was "troubling," and he is planning reviews of the service's process of awarding contracts.

The Bellevue-based parent of Kenworth, Peterbilt and DAF trucks on Tuesday reported second-quarter net income of $313.5 million, or 86 cents a share, up from $298.3 million, or 79 cents a share, in the year-ago quarter. Revenue...

Washington Mutual Inc. reported the biggest quarterly loss in its history -- $3.3 billion in the second quarter -- as it furiously stuffed more money into loan-loss reserves in an effort to keep ahead of a rising tide of...

At 10 a.m. Friday, Westfield Southcenter opens the doors to a $240 million expansion that makes it the largest indoor mall in Washington and Oregon.

Internet conglomerate IAC/InterActiveCorp, preparing to spin off four of its operating units, said late Tuesday it plans to take about $170 million in charges because the housing crisis has diminished the value of its mortgage...

Microsoft on Tuesday said it's opening up the popular console to games created by gamers using the company's XNA Game Studio software. "We're creating an opportunity for aspiring developers to start their careers on the world...

Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels wants the city's grocery, drug and convenience stores to start charging a 20-cent tax on disposable bags beginning next year.

The 900,000-square-foot campus, which will consist of two six-story office buildings and a visitors center, is slated to open by the end of 2010.

A single cup of custom-made coffee that's Jessica Alba hot, Bill Gates rich, and as unique as a snowflake. No foam. No caramel. No whip. Just beans and water -- pushed through a cool little machine called the Clover -- for a...

Washington Mutual, the largest U.S. savings and loan, posted a $3.33 billion second-quarter loss, boosting its reserve for loan losses as the number of soured mortgages soared

Shares of Apple Inc. fell sharply as investors focused more on the company's cautious guidance for the current quarter than on the blockbuster Macintosh and iPod sales during the previous three-month period.

Amazon.com's web data storage service, S3, went down Sunday, causing interruptions of up to eight hours for some customers.

Yahoo's board and management earned a reprieve after a weekend deal ended a bruising and acrimonious fight for control of the company with Carl C. Icahn.

Despite pleas from loyal coffee drinkers, Starbucks Corp. said it is moving forward with its plans to close 600 of its stores.

TiVo, the Silicon Valley company that introduced millions to the joy of skipping television commercials, is trying to crack a decades-old media dream. It wants to turn the television remote control into a tool for buying the...

Carolyn Gudmundson, a former Microsoft Corp. manager who admitted embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the company, was sentenced Friday to 22 months in prison.

Here's the basic idea: The machine is as thin as possible, runs low end hardware and has a single button for powering it on and off, headphone jacks, a built in camera for video, low end speakers, and a microphone. It will have...

Women in the workplace are being afflicted by the same troubles as men. And they are responding as men have, by dropping out or disappearing for a while.

The pace of U.S. venture capital investments remained steady at $7.4 billion during the second quarter despite a wobbly stock market that has made it increasingly difficult for the financiers of new ideas to cash out of startups.

Call it the big fizzle. The hoped-for second-half economic rebound is looking to be lethargic, with the country straining under high energy prices and fallout from the housing and credit debacles.