Former House speaker Newt Gingrich not only has built a double-digit lead over Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination in a new Gallup Poll. He also now scores the most support of any GOP contender this year.

Ford Motor Co. announced Tuesday it will move a truck-assembly operation from Mexico to Lorain County in 2013, saving 1,400 jobs, while also fueling the political debate over which party deserves credit.

There's modestly good news for California's battered economy in the latest report from the UCLA Anderson Forecast: The depressed inland part of the state is at last starting to recover.

Verizon Wireless is blocking the Google Wallet software from running on the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Verizon Wireless said Tuesday that it was waiting to provide a Wallet application until it can offer "the best security and user experience." Verizon and rivals AT&T and T-Mobile USA are part of a consortium called ISIS that is planning its own payment system.

The United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) today announced plans for the 22nd Annual Legislative Summit, slated for March 21-23, 2012, at the Washington Marriott at Metro Center.

"Steve Jobs," the only authorized biography of late Apple co-founder, on Tuesday rose to the top of Amazon.com's best-selling books for 2011, no more than two months after its initial release in late October.

Hispanics are now the largest ethnic minority in the United States and during the past decade, U.S. Hispanic purchasing power has rapidly increased. This report takes an in depth look at how today's Hispanic Economy is transitioning into an economic power in the U.S. Click here for the executive summary and table of contents!

The number of Hispanic-owned businesses in the United States is expected to grow 41.8 percent in the next six years to 4.3 million, with total revenues surging 39 percent to more than $539 billion, according to new estimates by HispanTelligence. Spurred by growing entrepreneurial trends and affluence among the nation's largest minority population, the increase is expected to come at a robust rate of 8.5 and 8.7 percent, respectfully, over the next couple years.

The Great Recession made public revenues plunge while the cost of public programs skyrocketed, resulting in dire public finances here and in key European countries. During 2010, we observed a resilient and recovering U.S economy that, starting in the first quarter of 2011, faced a political and public sector shock on both sides of the Atlantic.

HispanTelligence, the research arm of HispanicBusiness Inc., selected the magazine's 100 Influentials based on the following criteria

This year's crop of The Hispanic Business 100 Influentials fits in nicely with the launch last month of HispanicBusiness magazine's new Diversity Partnership section.

By now we are getting used to it. One day we slide toward chaos. The sensation lasts for days. Then the sun rises, the crisis resolves. Back and forth, the economy and the politics of the economy slide like veritable tectonic plates. The movement affects massive markets, national and global.

George Costanza of "Seinfeld" no longer has to schlep his famously overstuffed wallet. Google on Monday released the Google Wallet app that turns the Sprint Nexus S 4G smartphone into a mobile payment device you can use instead of carrying all those plastic credit cards.