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ARMONK, N.Y. (AP) — IBM’s fourth-quarter net income dropped 11 percent as revenue in most categories continued to decline, and its outlook for the year disappointed investors. Shares fell 2 percent in aftermarket trading. The…
January 21, 2015 -
By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A Washington state man was charged Tuesday with helping run what investigators called one of the most sophisticated and widely used criminal marketplaces on the Internet. The…
January 20, 2015 -
By TERENCE CHEA Associated Press SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — In Silicon Valley, it’s never too early to become an entrepreneur. Just ask 13-year-old Shubham Banerjee. The California eighth-grader has launched a company to develop…
January 20, 2015 -
By The Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon Studios is branching out from television series to movies, announcing plans to begin producing and acquiring original movies for theatrical release and, within weeks, video streaming. Just…
January 20, 2015 -
By JULIE PACE AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama argued Friday that a resurgent fear of terrorism across Europe and the United States should not lead countries to overreact and shed…
January 20, 2015 -
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam’s prime minister said Thursday that it is impossible to ban social media such as Facebook so authorities in the communist nation instead should provide correct information to inform public opinion.…
January 16, 2015 -
By TAMI ABDOLLAH Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The network was crippled. Days before Thanksgiving, Sony Pictures employees had logged onto computers that flashed a grim message from a hacker group calling itself Guardians…
January 13, 2015 -
By KIMBERLY PIERCEALL Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Self-driving cars garner much of the attention, but in reality, we’re years away from tooling around in something like Knight Rider’s KITT. Coming sooner to a…
January 12, 2015 -
Continuing the break with State of the Union tradition, President Barack Obama will spend most of the coming week previewing more of the proposals he will outline in the address, including on identity theft, electronic privacy and cybersecurity, the White House announced Saturday.
January 12, 2015 -
By SCOTT MAYEROWITZ AP Business Writer BOULEVARD, Calif. (AP) — The drones are coming. Not as flying deliverymen that bring diapers, books or soup cans to your home, a vision put forth by Amazon CEO…
January 10, 2015 -
By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Apple is turning its retail stores into art galleries featuring the work of professional photographers and other artists who use iPads, iPhones and Mac computers…
January 09, 2015 -
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple and thousands of mobile software developers are feasting on people’s ravenous app-etite for apps. Users of iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches spent nearly $500…
January 09, 2015 -
By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration’s extraordinary decision to point fingers at North Korea over the hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. could lead to a courtroom spectacle in the…
January 08, 2015 -
By BRANDON BAILEY AP Technology Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — A year ago, pundits were declaring the personal computer dead. Smartphones and tablets were cannibalizing sales, and the once-revolutionary PC seemed unnecessary — and boring.…
January 08, 2015 -
BY KIMBERLY PIERCEALL Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Driverless cars of the future. Every imaginable (and unimaginable) kind of smartphone case. The latest laundry technology, even. Acres of Las Vegas convention center floor packed…
January 08, 2015