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(AP) A high-tech startup is wading into the gun control debate with a cellphone controller that would allow gun owners to know when their weapon is being moved _ and disable it remotely.There's no actual gun yet, but the technology from ...
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(AP) A company that monitors global Internet traffic says another branch of the Venezuela-to-Cuba undersea fiber-optic cable has come online, connecting the island to nearby Jamaica.Internet analysis firm Renesys says it detected the new traffic between Cuban state telecom monopoly Etecsa ...
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(AP) Sprint says it has raised its buyout offer for the stake in Clearwire it does not already own by 14 percent.Sprint Nextel Corp. said Tuesday that it is offering $3.40 per share for Clearwire Corp. Its previous offer, from December, ...
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(AP) Will Xbox mark the spot once again for Microsoft?The company is set to reveal the next generation of its Xbox entertainment console during a presentation Tuesday at its headquarters in Redmond, Wash.It's been eight years since the launch of the ...
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(AP) The following list represents the most viral tracks on Spotify, based on the number of people who shared it divided by the number who listened to it, from Monday, May 13, to Sunday, May 19, via Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter and ...
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(AP) The following list represents the top streamed tracks on Spotify from Monday, May 13, to Sunday, May 19:UNITED STATES1. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Ray Dalton, "Can't Hold Us" (Macklemore)2. Daft Punk, "Get Lucky _ Radio Edit" (Columbia Records)3. Imagine ...
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(AP) Wireless company Sprint Nextel Inc. says it can now let Dish Network see its books and talk with Dish to see whether its competing offer to buy Sprint is better than its current deal with Japan's SoftBank.The companies said late ...
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(AP) Fresh on the heels of its $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr, Yahoo says it is rebooting its languishing photo-sharing site Flickr with plans to make it "awesome" again.Yahoo Inc. said at an event in New York City's Times Square on ...
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(AP) Yahoo Inc. lured Marissa Mayer from Google in July to become its fifth CEO in as many years. Her task: Help the Internet pioneer regain its stature after years in a financial funk. In her 10 months leading the company, ...
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(AP) Apple Inc. employs a group of affiliate companies located outside the United States to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. income taxes, a Senate investigation has found.The world's most valuable company is holding overseas some $102 billion of its ...
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(AP) Yahoo is paying $1.1 billion to buy the popular blogging site Tumblr. It's part of Yahoo's comeback efforts, after years in a financial funk. Tumblr will give Yahoo more opportunities to sell advertising. Here's how the two companies compare:_ TUMBLRFOUNDED: ...
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(AP) Yahoo has agreed to pay $1.1 billion to buy blogging forum Tumblr, ranking it in among the top 10 tech deals announced this year, according to research firm Dealogic. Here's a list of the top 10 tech mergers and acquisitions ...
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(AP) As a teenager, David Karp would canvass the streets of New York City's Upper West Side, offering to build websites for local businesses.After his freshman year of high school, the savvy kid decided to drop out of high school altogether ...
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(AP) The U.S. military has shut down wireless internet service at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba because of online hacking threats.A spokesman for the Guantanamo Bay prison says that officials have also blocked access to social networks such as ...
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(AP) Yahoo has reached a deal to buy online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion, the latest acquisition under CEO Marissa Mayer. Yahoo is paying mostly cash for Tumblr and expects to complete the deal by the end of the year. ...
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(AP) Private equity firm Blackstone Group LP, along with Pactera's CEO and other managers, have offered to take Pactera private in a deal that values the Chinese technology consulting and outsourcing firm at $680.4 million.Shares rose 31 percent Monday. Through Friday's ...
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(AP) A central Idaho couple is suing the Sun Valley Co. and the Twitter Inc. social media site, asking a judge to bar the resort from using the handle "SunValley."Leonard Barshack and Erin Smith, the husband and wife, also say Twitter ...
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(AP) The Supreme Court has affirmed the authority of federal regulators to try to speed local government decisions on proposals to build or expand cell phone towers.The court voted 6-3 Monday to uphold an appeals court ruling in favor the Federal ...
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(AP) Seamless North America and GrubHub on Monday announced plans to combine and create an online food ordering service covering more than 20,000 restaurants in 500 cities across the U.S.Financial terms were not disclosed. GrubHub CEO Matt Maloney will become CEO ...
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(AP) Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet icon that had fallen behind the times.The deal announced Monday represents Mayer's boldest move yet since she left Google 10 months ...
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(AP) Small companies are taking the limelight on a choppy start to the week.The Russell 2000, an index of small-company stocks, rose above 1,000 for the first time Monday. The index is outpacing the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard ...
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(AP) The stock market is edging higher in midday trading, led by small-company shares.The Russell 2000 index of small company stocks crossed 1,000 points for the first time Monday. It's up 18 percent this year, more than other major market indexes.The ...
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(AP) Stocks are opening slightly lower on Wall Street as the stock market comes off of four straight weeks of gains.The Dow Jones industrial average fell 21 points to 15,332 shortly after the opening bell Monday, a loss of 0.1 percent.The ...
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(AP) U.S. stock futures are relatively flat as investors take a breather and some analysts wonder how long the bull-market run can last.Dow Jones industrial average futures are down 7 points to 15,308. The broader S&P 500 is down less than ...
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(AP) The Justice Department says a proposed $20 million severance payment for the CEO of American Airlines is too big and should be rejected.The proposed merger of US Airways Group Inc. and American calls for American's current CEO Tom Horton to ...
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