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iPhone 5, predicted to be launched at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this June, will be the first iPhone to be waterproof, according to the latest rumor reported in the Daily Mail UK.

U.S. fast-food giant Yum Brands Inc. plans to open 130 new KFC stores in Africa this year, bringing its presence on the continent to 1,000 restaurants, the Business Day newspaper in South Africa said on Friday, citing a senior executive.

Here are eight temporary ways by which you can increase the battery life of your device.

Kingfisher Airlines Ltd has put on hold plans to join the global oneworld alliance, in the latest blow to the financially troubled carrier.

The Dream Team has released a new version of the A5 jailbreak tool, Absinthe 0.4.

Google will no longer support the Verizon CDMA/LTE version of Samsung's flagship phone - Galaxy Nexus. Verizon's CDMA enabled phones such as Motorola XOOM and Nexus S 4G too have lost Google support.

Nasdaq OMX Group Inc.'s core profit topped analysts' expectations for the fourth quarter, boosted by a rise in revenue from market data and technology, which helped offset a soft trading environment.

Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen moved into a $20 million California mansion, and Eli Manning and wife Abby's New Jersey condo is fully automated. This photo slideshow allows you to decide: whose house is nicer?

Shares of Apple., the world's most valuable company, set another intraday record high of $460 on Friday, valuing the company at $428.6 billion. The shares closed at a record $459.68, up $4.56 or 1 percent.

A breathtaking photo taken from the crane on the 90th floor of 1 WTC, looking out on downtown Manhattan, the Lower East Side, and New York's East River bridges.

Shares of Facebook were auctioned Thursday on the private site SharesPost that would value the entire company at $94 billion.

Small businesses are often forced to find marketing strategies that work for tight budgets.

Facadism, or the architectural practice of building modern structures behind old facades, is hard to get right, but when it is, the result is much more than the sum of its parts.

Steve Jobs spent most of his life scoffing products that weren't created by the company he founded, but in a new Taiwanese commercial for an Android device, he's seen coveting a tablet PC other than the iPad.

Tumblr wants a team of journalists to report the latest and greatest happening on its microblogging platform. The NYC-based website made its first major move in that direction by hiring Chris Mohney on Thursday, to serve as the site's editor-in-chief.

Having filed for its initial public offering (IPO) on Wednesday, Facebook has the potential to debut on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) with one of the largest IPOs ever. Check out this slideshow to see which were the largest IPOs in U.S. history.

With all the talk surrounding the Facebook IPO, besides Mark Zuckerberg, one other name stands out: Sheryl Sandberg. Sandberg is the company's chief operating officer and with the approximately $31 million she made last year, she is the highest-paid employee at the social networking site. Sandberg is a married mother of two who has an excellent academic track record.

New Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman, who takes a $1 annual salary, got stock options that could be valued as high as $16.1 million, the company’s proxy filing said.

The deal will give the new company a 22 percent share of the mobile telephone market with over 2.8 million customers and more than €700 million ($920 million) in combined revenue for 2011.

The cause of the pipeline rupture is still under investigation. The pipeline connected a well head on the ocean floor to a floating platform, which was conducting a well test when the rupture took place. The well's safety mechanisms responded appropriately and the well was closed off automatically.

Perhaps it is only a coincidence, but the drop in violent crime has roughly occurred concurrently with a spike in obesity.

Apple is expected to launch the flagship model in its iPhone range - popularly called the iPhone 5 - in June. The device, however, will face tough competition from RIM - the makers of the BlackBerry - and its best bet, the BlackBerry London.

If you have been expecting something fresh and extraordinary from GoDaddy after the SOPA backlash, you are in for a disappointment.

Samsung Galaxy Note, known as the first hybrid of smartphone and tablet, will hit the U.S. market on Feb. 17. The shape, size and features of the phone have already generated a great amount of interest among smartphone enthusiasts. But conquering the market will not be that easy for the Samsung hybrid as Nokia is also set to launch its flagship Windows phone - the Lumia 900 handset. Let us take a look at the specifications of the Nokia Lumia 900 and compare them to the Samsung Galaxy Note.

As with most companies going public, Facebook's IPO filing Wednesday brought to light the company's financials and other astonishing revelations that could either make or break the multi-billion dollar business.

Thanks to its record breaking quarter of shipments, Apple has jumped into the third spot in the list of the world's top five mobile phone manufacturers, following Nokia and Samsung.

More than 45 auto manufacturers are expected to be competing globally in the electric vehicle market with approximately 75 models by 2015, according to a study from IHS Automotive Supplier Business. Depending on the strength of the global recovery of automotive markets and the speed with which the electric vehicle (EV) models are marketed and the supporting infrastructure, cumulative sales are expected to total 700,000 to 1 million.

It's the year's hottest initial public offering, but some wealth managers find themselves having a hard time recommending Facebook to their clients.

Sheryl Sandberg is the company's chief operating officer and the highest-paid employee at the social networking site, raking in a jaw-dropping $30.87 million last year.