Stocks were narrowly mixed Monday, as investors seemed to take a breather after major averages finished higher for the fourth-consecutive week and amid ongoing concerns the Federal Reserve may begin to taper off its quantitative easing program sooner than expected.The Dow Jones Industrial Average was slightly lower, dragged by Cisco and Merck. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq struggled for di...

Isaac Davis, a salesman from the Detroit suburb of Southfield says he would love to buy a car from his home state. "But," he lamented, "I just dont think the quality is there.Davis isn't alone. In recent decades, millions of Americans have walked away from General Motors, Ford and Chrysler because of quality, reliability and service problems. Even Mark Reuss, president of GMs North American ope...

Yahoo and Tumblr made their wedding vows Monday with the stumbling Web search giant publicly announcing its promise not to "screw up" the relationship.Yahoo confirmed it will buy the blogging website for $1.1 billion cash, in a bold move to make itself more relevant amid the explosion in social media on the Internet.It was old new media hooking up with new new media. Even as Yahoo's CEO Marissa Ma...

Yahoo said Monday it will buy blogging website Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash, in a bold move to make itself more relevant amid the explosion in social media on the Internet.Yahoo said it "promises not to screw it up," in a press release announcing the deal. It said Tumblr will operate independently as a separate business, perhaps trying to assuage Tumbler users who are concerned that Yahoo would ir...