Solar plane makes 2nd attempt in Morocco flight
RABAT, Morocco - An experimental solar plane hoping to one day fly around the world tried again Thursday to fly over Morocco's Atlas Mountains after being thwarted a week ago by high winds.
View ArticleDevelopment banks commit $175bn to transportation
RIO DE JANEIRO - The world's largest development banks say they are investing $175 billion over the next decade to support cleaner transportation systems.
View ArticleGovernment: Apple's trying to rush antitrust case
NEW YORK - The U.S. government says Apple Inc. wants to rush its New York antitrust lawsuit over the price of electronic books by finishing evidence gathering by year's end, and the electronics king...
View ArticleThe pop that wasn't: Life after Facebook's IPO
NEW YORK - It's been a month since Facebook's IPO fell flat and in that time, the market for initial public offerings has collapsed.
View ArticleTexas AG accuses Google of withholding evidence
SAN FRANCISCO - The Texas attorney general is accusing Google of improperly withholding evidence to stymie an investigation into whether the company has been abusing its dominance of Internet search.
View ArticleGoogle stock split wins approval; CEO loses voice
SAN FRANCISCO - Google shareholders gave CEO Larry Page what he wanted Thursday by approving an unconventional stock split meant to cement his authority, but he wasn't around to hail the victory.
View ArticleNYT adds tech heavyweights Ito, McAndrews to board
NEW YORK - The New York Times Co. is adding two technology heavyweights to its board of directors: Joichi Ito, an early investor in Twitter, Flickr and Kickstarter, and Brian McAndrews, a venture...
View ArticleDevelopments in British phone-hacking scandal
Developments in a phone-hacking scandal involving British newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.: November 2005: News of the World royal reporter Clive Goodman writes story saying Prince...
View ArticleCorrection: New York Times-Board story
NEW YORK - In a June 21 story about The New York Times Co., The Associated Press erroneously said The New York Times newspaper had 472,000 paying digital subscribers.
View ArticleHow consumer-electronics makers are faring
A look at how selected makers of phones and other consumer-electronic gadgets are faring: April 19: Microsoft Corp.
View ArticleHow chips, PCs, services companies are faring
A look at how selected companies providing computers, components, services and related software are faring: April 11: Research groups Gartner and IDC estimate that PC shipments in the first quarter...
View ArticleA look at recent tech-industry earnings
Here is a summary of recent earnings and reports for selected technology companies and what they reveal about the state of spending and the overall economy: April 6: Samsung Electronics Co.
View ArticleIt's an isolated life for Sandusky trial jurors
There's no Twitter, Facebook or radio. Smartphones, iPads or laptops? No way. And the phones and televisions were removed from their hotel rooms.
View ArticleFacebook signs apps privacy agreement
SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook became the seventh company to agree to give people advance warning if its mobile applications pull personal information from mobile phones and tablet computers.
View ArticleNews Summary: Berkshire buys Waco newspaper
MORE NEWS: Billionaire Warren Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., is buying the Waco Tribune-Herald, its second newspaper in Texas.
View ArticleA look at how some IPO stocks have fared
Facebook's public debut was the most anticipated tech IPO since Google went public in August 2004.
View ArticleNews Summary: Video of bus monitor's misery
THE SPARK: A middle-school student in upstate New York posted a 10-minute video showing four other seventh-grade boys cruelly taunting a 68-year-old bus monitor.
View ArticleUS computer graphics scientist wins Kyoto Prize
TOKYO - An American regarded as the father of computer graphics, an Indian literary critic and a Japanese molecular cell biologist are winners of the annual Kyoto Prize, Japan's highest private award...
View ArticlePrices of Facebook stock since long-awaited IPO
Facebook Inc.'s stock has been making a comeback over the past two weeks. With Friday's close, the stock has been up on 13 trading days and down on 12 since its initial public offering.
View ArticleChinese tech giant calls for security cooperation
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - The founder of Chinese telecom equipment giant Huawei Technologies has called for international cooperation to improve data protection.
View ArticleChinese tech giant calls for cyber cooperation
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - The founder of Chinese telecom equipment giant Huawei, which has faced security concerns in the U.S.
View ArticleVideo of bus monitor's misery strikes a nerve
The pebble was tossed when a middle-school student in upstate New York posted a 10-minute video on his Facebook page.
View ArticleNintendo to start selling 3DS with larger screens
TOKYO - Japanese game maker Nintendo Co. has upgraded its 3DS handheld to sport a screen nearly twice as big as the previous model amid hot competition against smartphones and tablets that are wooing...
View ArticleA battle for Internet freedom as UN meeting nears
WASHINGTON - A year after the Internet helped fuel the Arab Spring uprisings, the role cyberspace plays in launching revolutions is being threatened by proposed changes to a United Nations...
View ArticlePurchasing Hawaiian isle fits with mogul's persona
HONOLULU - Buying an inhabited Hawaiian island may sound extreme, even for a guy known for flaunting his fortune like a playboy - driving fancy cars, wooing beautiful women, flying his own jet and...
View ArticleInternet group picks little-known executive as CEO
NEW YORK - A businessman with experience in building consensus will be the next CEO of the Internet agency in charge of contentious policies surrounding Internet addresses.
View ArticleZynga.com to show Facebook ads
NEW YORK - Zynga is starting to show ads from Facebook on Zynga.com, its stand-alone website that lets people play its online games away from Facebook.
View ArticleFacebook stock has highest close since May 21
NEW YORK - Facebook closes at one of its highest prices since its initial public offering. The stock rose $1.21, or 3.8 percent, to finish Friday at $33.05.
View ArticleFirst Tesla electric sedans hit the road
FREMONT, Calif. - Electric car maker Tesla's first mass-market sedans took to the road Friday, but it's not certain whether their debut will make or break the fledgling company.
View ArticleDirecTV cuts 3-D channel from 24-hour to part-time
LOS ANGELES - DirecTV says it has reduced the programming hours of its 24-hour 3-D channel, n3D, due to a shortage of 3-D content.
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