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  • By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A House Republican investigation faults senior IRS officials in the mistreatment of conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status, but could find no link to the White…

    December 24, 2014
  • By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Business Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Ready! Set! Hut, hut: This holiday season’s blitz of college football bowl games will feature a reshuffled roster of corporate sponsors spending millions to thrust…

    December 23, 2014
  • By JOSH LEDERMAN Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama says the United States is reviewing whether to put North Korea back on its list of state sponsors of terrorism as Washington decides how…

    December 22, 2014
  • NEW YORK (AP) — Blackberry reported an adjusted profit for its fiscal third quarter but its revenue fell, missing analysts’ estimates. Its shares fell almost 6 percent in morning trading Friday, Blackberry was considered a…

    December 22, 2014
  • By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Security flaws in a system used by cellphone carriers around the world could open the door to wide-ranging surveillance of mobile phone traffic, according to a German…

    December 21, 2014
  • By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Hackers sent a new email Friday to Sony Pictures Entertainment, gloating over the studio’s “wise” decision to cancel the release of “The Interview” and warning…

    December 19, 2014
  • By MATTHEW PENNINGTON and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Suspicions that North Korea was behind a destructive hacking attack against Sony Pictures and a threat against movie theaters are intensifying calls for tougher…

    December 19, 2014
  • By ERIC TUCKER and TAMI ABDOLLAH Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The detective work blaming North Korea for the Sony hacker break-in appears so far to be largely circumstantial, The Associated Press has learned. The…

    December 19, 2014
  • By MAE ANDERSON AP Technology Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Companies across the globe are on high alert to tighten up network security to avoid being the next company brought to its knees by hackers like…

    December 19, 2014
  • By The Associated Press It’s been four weeks since hackers calling themselves Guardians of Peace began their cyberterrorism campaign against Sony Pictures Entertainment. In that time thousands of executive emails and other documents have been…

    December 19, 2014
  • By TED BRIDIS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In the weeks before hackers broke into Sony Pictures Entertainment, the studio suffered significant technology outages it blamed on software flaws and incompetent technical staffers who weren’t…

    December 19, 2014
  • By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Online shopping has become as volatile as stock market trading. Wild, minute-by-minute price swings on everything from clothes to TVs have made it difficult for…

    December 19, 2014
  • By MAE ANDERSON AP Technology Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Companies across the globe are on high alert to tighten up network security to avoid being the next company brought to its knees by hackers like…

    December 19, 2014
  • By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Napster co-founder Sean Parker missed most of his final year in high school and has ended up in the emergency room countless times because of…

    December 18, 2014