BERKELEY, Calif. Sharp-eyed dog walkers along the San Francisco Bay waterfront may have spotted a strange-looking plane zipping overhead recently that that looked strikingly like the U.S. stealth drone captured by Iran in December.
PORTLAND, Ore. Groupon Inc. said Friday that its fourth-quarter loss was wider than initially reported because it needed to increase the amount of money it sets aside for refunds.
LOS ANGELES The nation's two actors unions have merged, nearly a decade after their last attempt, bringing an end to years of conflict that had given Hollywood studios the advantage in labor negotiations.
LOS ANGELES NBC's talent show "The Voice" is jumping on Facebook's "timeline" app bandwagon to give fans another way to vote for their favorite contestants.
DENVER The era of social media is bringing more transparency to ski resorts' daily snow reports, with skiers and riders using smartphone apps, websites, tweets and video to spread the word in real time, particularly if traditional reports are off.
NEW YORK The Huffington Post doesn't have to pay bloggers for providing content for its website in part because they knew from the start they wouldn't be paid and could have taken their work elsewhere, a federal judge ruled Friday.
TRIPOLI, Lebanon Last year, Khalid was a 19-year-old Syrian university student whose modest dreams were to land a job and earn enough to marry his girlfriend - not simple tasks given Syria's weak economy and his lack of connections to the ruling elite.
BOISE, Idaho Micron Technology Inc. has settled a lawsuit in which Oracle Corp. accused the Idaho memory chipmaker and other companies of artificially inflating prices for microchips.
BEIJING Consumers probably won't have to pay more for iPads, iPhones and other popular consumer electronics despite a Chinese company's pledge to trim work hours and raise wages for its hardscrabble assembly workers.
While Apple Inc.'s relationship with Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. gets a lot of attention, the Taiwanese company accounts for only a fraction of the cost of each device it assembles.
NEW YORK The IPO market is heating up. A growing economy and rising stock market are prompting more startups to go public, and investors appear hungry to invest.
TORONTO Struggling BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. said Thursday that it plans to return its focus to its corporate customers after failing to compete with flashier, consumer-oriented phones such as Apple's iPhone and models that run Google's Android software.
NEW YORK Chinese workers who often spend more than 60 hours per week assembling iPhones and iPads will have their overtime hours curbed and their pay increased after a labor auditor hired by Apple Inc. inspected their factories.
NEW YORK Sony Corp. says that Michael Lynton, the chairman of movie studio Sony Pictures, will be promoted to chief executive of all of Sony's operations in the U.S.
CAIRO An Egyptian court has ordered the government to ban pornographic Internet websites in order to protect society and its values.
SAN FRANCISCO Red Hat is red hot. The software maker's shares soared nearly 20 percent Thursday to a 12-year high, as investors reacted to an earnings report that showed how much Red Hat is benefiting from a shift in the way that big companies meet their technological needs.
Winter sport enthusiasts will love Recon Instruments' new MOD Live, which appear to be ordinary goggles until you look through them - then you'll see they are a whole lot more.
TOKYO Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says Japan's massive tsunami inspired him to seek more ways for his social network to help people hit by natural disasters.
If you were playing video games in the 1980s, you probably remember flinging your Nintendo controller across the room after the original "Ninja Gaiden" sliced and diced you into mouth-frothing aggravation.
NEW YORK Shares of Millennial Media nearly doubled in the mobile advertising company's market debut Thursday.
SAN JOSE, Calif. PayPal's mobile unit chief will become the online payments service's next president.
SANFORD, Fla. An elderly couple has reached a settlement with Spike Lee after the pair said they had to leave their Florida home after the director help spread a Twitter posting listing their address as that of the man who shot an unarmed teen.
MANILA, Philippines A Philippine Catholic school is withholding the diplomas of six high school boys who uploaded Facebook photos that appear to show them kissing one another, an education official said Friday.
NEW YORK Throw away all those soy sauce-stained takeout menus.
LOS ANGELES Long before Jeff Bezos became an Internet mogul, he was enthralled by the mysteries of space.
NEW YORK Online games company Zynga Inc. said Wednesday that CEO Mark Pincus and other insiders will sell some of their stake at $12 a share, slightly below Wednesday's closing price.
SAN FRANCISCO Oracle and Google are digging in their heels as they prepare for an upcoming trial.
SAN FRANCISCO Google is offering to provide a monthly report to people who want to keep track of their activities on some of its most popular services.
SAN FRANCISCO A major Yahoo shareholder passed over for a seat on the troubled Internet company's board is blasting the decision as "illogical."
LOS ANGELES Clear Channel CEO Bob Pittman says that the radio company will keep part of its iHeart Radio online service ad-free for at least a few more months, explaining that a consumer backlash against ads on Pandora Media Inc.'s competing service serves as a "cautionary tale."
