Ronald E. Yates

Last spring, when Blair Hoerbert planted a new, genetically engineered hybrid corn that is toxic to the rapacious European corn borer, he was hoping for a pest-free crop that would...

With Monday's long-expected announcement that Bell Atlantic Corp. and Nynex Corp. were forming a super-regional telephone company, questions about the fate of the three remaining original Baby Bells kept phone...

When a helicopter carrying Walt Disney Co. President and chief operating officer Frank Wells slammed into a Nevada mountainside two years ago, killing him and two other passengers, it created...

Not unlike a band of school children whistling as they walk down a sidewalk alongside a cemetery, many following high-technology issues in the American business community put on a brave...

Wall Street, which began the day still quivering from Monday's 101-point decline in stock prices, collected itself Tuesday and rebounded vigorously on news that the Federal Reserve Board had decided...

Paul Schaedel opened his wallet and removed a plastic case filled with frequent-flyer cards issued by a half-dozen airlines. "These things are like money in the bank for me," said...

Glitches in Intel Corp.'s heralded Pentium microprocessor prompted IBM to halt shipments Monday of personal computers equipped with the microchip, amplifying a public-relations nightmare for the world's largest computer chipmaker....

Motorola Inc. and General Instrument Corp., two Chicago-area companies jockeying for the fast lane on the information superhighway, announced technology ties with other companies Monday designed to move Americans a...

Motorola Inc., the Schaumburg-based electronics giant that has waged a 10-year battle for access to Japan's cellular telephone market, once again is in the middle of a critical U.S.-Japan trade...