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Facebook stock climbs, but company faces lawsuits
Facebook's fourth day of trading as a public company saw an increase in the company's stock price and shareholder lawsuits related to the social ...
Between Facebook and JPMorgan, Wall St. woes mount
Almost four years after the financial crisis, Wall Street still can't get it right. Investor anger mounted Wednesday over the initial public offering ...
Scotland Yard deploys mobile fingerprint devices
Scotland Yard says it's equipping its police officers with handheld fingerprint devices, something the force says will help identify suspects in a ...
Facebook may move shares to NYSE
Facebook is in talks with the New York Stock Exchange to move its stock from the Nasdaq Stock Market after a botched initial public offering on ...
Key moments in Hewlett-Packard's recent history
On Wednesday, Hewlett-Packard Co. announced plans to cut about 8 percent of its work force, or 27,000 workers, by October 2014. It comes as the maker ...
DC zoo hand-raising cubs after rare cheetah birth
Two cheetah cubs have a new home at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and are being raised by human hands after a risky birth last month at the ...
Jury: Google didn't infringe on Oracle patents
A federal jury ruled Wednesday that Google didn't infringe on Oracle's patents when the Internet search leader developed its popular Android software ...
TV presenter: Piers Morgan told me how to hack
A prominent British TV presenter said Wednesday that CNN talk show host Piers Morgan gave him a primer on phone hacking, a revelation that suggests ...
Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA
It's been a long, strange trip for what appears to be several tiny chips of lunar rock that found their way into a casino mogul's hands after being ...
Review: OnLive Desktop brings the PC to tablets
So you love your iPad, but you wish you could work on Microsoft Office software, watch Flash video and generally have more of a PC-like experience? ...
Mystery deer growth pitting hunters against Hawaii
Deer can swim, but not very far. When they showed up for the first time on the Big Island of Hawaii, mystified residents wondered how they got there.
Tales of lunar rocks through the years
The saga of lunar rock traveling from the first moon landing in 1969 to the Las Vegas Strip in 1987 and back to NASA in 2012 recalls other moon rock ...
Wanted: Bigfoot hair samples for European study
European researchers are planning to use new techniques to analyze DNA that could help crack the mystery of whether Bigfoot exists. In a project ...
Ancient Bethlehem seal unearthed in Jerusalem
Israeli archaeologists have discovered a 2,700-year-old seal that bears the inscription "Bethlehem," the Israel Antiquities Authority announced ...
Japanese video game author wins Spanish prize
Japan's Shigeru Miyamoto, considered the father of the modern video game, has been awarded Spain's Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and ...
Silicon Valley tech exec accused of Lego thefts
A Silicon Valley software executive put fake bar codes on Lego sets at various Target stores, bought the toys at a steep discount, then sold them ...
Beam them up: Ashes of 'Star Trek' actor in orbit
James Doohan, Scotty from "Star Trek," spent his acting career whizzing through the cosmos. Gordon Cooper was one of America's famous Mercury seven ...
Commercial spacecraft speeds toward space station
Opening a new, entrepreneurial era in spaceflight, a ship built by a billionaire businessman sped toward the International Space Station with a load ...
Mountain lion killed in downtown Santa Monica
Police shot and killed a mountain lion that somehow made its way through an urban landscape before it was found early Tuesday in a downtown Santa ...
Boy Scouts get tech-savvy to boost membership
The Boy Scouts of America is trying to recruit a new generation of kids to join its troops with high-energy, high-tech activities that include ...
Google completes Motorola deal, heralding new era
Google has completed its $12.5 billion purchase of device maker Motorola Mobility in a deal that poses new challenges for the Internet's most powerful ...
Cuba's first daughter has gone beyond Castro name
She has her uncle's penchant for speaking her mind. From her father, she inherited a disciplined tenacity. But Mariela Castro, a married mother of ...
Obama to push clean energy technologies in Iowa
Anxious to show voters he's working to create jobs, President Barack Obama is putting tax credits to boost clean energy in the spotlight this week as ...
What's the big deal about private space launches?
The first private spaceship is headed to the International Space Station. Some questions and answers about the cargo mission by Space Exploration ...
Iran inserts nuclear fuel rod in research reactor
Iran's official news agency says Iranian scientists have inserted a domestically made fuel rod into the core of a research nuclear ...