Colorful investor Einhorn behind Apple attack
David Einhorn, the 44-year-old investor who attacked Apple Thursday, has a history of taking on companies and winning. But Apple is his biggest target ...
US magazine circulation flat despite digital gains
Magazine industry auditors say more U.S. magazines are selling more digital copies, but they still represented just 2.4 percent of circulation in the ...

Add-ons let semi-autos fire like military weapons
In the video, a shooter cradles a rifle equipped with a grenade launcher and 250-round magazine. But the star of this demonstration, posted online, ...

Syrian soldiers dance to Usher in online video
A video posted online purportedly shows Syrian soldiers taking a break from the country's civil war by bopping around to American R&B star Usher's hit ...
RIM shares up on upgrade
Shares of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion rose 3 percent Thursday with Wells Fargo saying that better gross margins from the company's new phone ...

Sprint posts big 4Q loss, revenue rises
Sprint Nextel Corp., the country's third largest wireless carrier, on Thursday said it lost $1.3 billion in its fourth quarter, about the same as a ...
College credit recommended for free online courses
Students may soon be able to receive college credit for the free online courses that are reshaping higher education. The American Council on Education ...

Video game composer taking 'Journey' to Grammys
Austin Wintory still can't wrap his head around the fact that he's up against "Star Wars" composer John Williams for a Grammy Award. "Thank God I've ...

Review: 'Dead Space 3' a less scary, solid shooter
Isaac Clarke has grown over the first two "Dead Space" games from a troubled systems engineer into a full-fledged action hero, so it would be naive ...
EU pushes plans for safer, more secure Internet
EU officials are pushing a plan to make the Internet safer — more resistant to cyberattacks, freer from cybercrime and safer for children to use.
Ahead of the Bell: Bar set high for LinkedIn's 4Q
LinkedIn 's knack of surprising Wall Street, an unbroken streak that winds back through every quarter since May 2011 after the company first went ...

Sony trims quarterly loss to $115 million
Sony Corp. is still struggling but managed to reduce its red ink for the latest quarter as the Japanese electronics and entertainment company aims for ...
Vodafone revenue falls amid tougher competition
Telecommunications company Vodafone says its revenue dropped 2 percent in the third quarter due to tougher competition, a weak economy, and regulatory ...
Yahoo taps into Google's ad network, expertise
Yahoo is counting on rival Google to help accelerate its revenue growth. As part of a nonexclusive arrangement announced Wednesday, Yahoo's website ...

News Corp. cuts outlook, shares fall
Media conglomerate News Corp. cut its forecast for annual earnings Wednesday, saying underperformance at several businesses including its Fox ...

Liberty Global to buy Virgin Media for $16B
Liberty Global Inc., the cable TV operator controlled by media mogul John Malone, is buying U.K.-based Virgin Media Inc. in a $16 billion deal that ...

Netflix could gain from loss of Sat. mail delivery
Netflix won't miss Saturday mail delivery, even though the weekend service helped keep its DVD-by-mail subscribers happy. The U.S. Postal Service's ...

Time Warner 4Q earnings up, raises dividend 11 pct
Time Warner Inc. said Wednesday that net income grew 51 percent in the last three months of 2012 even as revenue was largely unchanged. Rising fees ...

Kenneth Cole returns to fashion week on his terms
The buck — probably nubuck, in this case — again stops with Kenneth Cole. Cole returns to New York Fashion Week on Thursday after a seven-year hiatus, ...

Review: iPhone Google Maps lags Android version
Every time my husband and I drive the 677 miles from New York to my parents' house in Michigan, we dread the long stretch of Interstate 80 through the ...
25 billion served up: iTunes reaches milestone
The answer to the trivia question will be: "Monkey Drums (Goskel Vancin Remix) by Chase Buch." That's the 25-billionth song purchased on iTunes.
Aussie court clears Google in deceptive ad case
Australia's highest court on Wednesday threw out a ruling against Google Inc. that had found the Internet giant guilty of breaching trade law by ...
New keyboard BlackBerry in US could take months
A modern BlackBerry with a physical keyboard might not arrive in the U.S. until May or June, a month or two behind other parts of the world, the chief ...

Zynga 4Q loss narrows as game maker cuts costs
Online games company Zynga said its loss narrowed in the latest quarter even though revenue was largely unchanged as the company cut expenses by ...

Dell to go private in $24.4B deal led by founder
Slumping personal computer maker Dell is bowing out of the stock market in a $24.4 billion buyout that represents the largest deal of its kind since ...