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SEATTLE (AP) — Melinda Gates says she and her husband, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, are most likely going to see their hometown team play in the Super Bowl. Their friend and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen…
January 23, 2015 -
NEW YORK (AP) — The founder of the popular, if at times notorious, online message board 4chan is retiring as the site’s administrator. Christopher Poole launched the site in 2003 when he was 15 years…
January 22, 2015 -
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Coming off its best quarter yet, Netflix is accelerating its international expansion in hopes its original programming will hook millions more subscribers on the Internet…
January 21, 2015 -
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is facing her biggest business decision since she left Google two-and-a-half years ago to lead its struggling rival: how to manage…
January 21, 2015 -
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