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It has been only a day since Absinthe, the untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S, was released. Nevertheless, there is already an array of tweaks available.

At the conclusion of years of work on the 787 Dreamliner, Boeing Co., along with Spirit Aerosystems, has declared a tour of their new design, for 1,100 employees and suppliers, open.

The offer of a 30 percent discount on future cruises, made by the owners of the recently shipwrecked Costa Concordia (Costa Cruises), has been faced with a number of angry responses from passengers of the ill-fated luxury liner.

Brazilian state-controlled oil company Petrobras ousted CEO Jose Sergio Gabrielli, the man who oversaw the discovery of the largest oil find in the Americas in decades, local media reported on Saturday.

When Walt Disney Co. shareholders vote to re-elect directors at its annual meeting in March, neither Steve Jobs' wife nor a representative of his trust will be on the ballot, even though the trust is the media company's largest shareholder.

When Disney shareholders vote to re-elect directors at its annual meeting in March, neither Steve Jobs' wife nor a representative from his trust will be present on the ballot, even though it is the media company's largest shareholder.

Office Depot Inc., the second-largest U.S. office-supply retailer, is testing PayPal's new point-of-sale (POS) system in a few stores, a top executive told Reuters. The news comes a few days after eBay Inc.'s PayPal unit said it had begun testing in-store payments in 51 Home Depot stores.

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This past week, New York University began the long approval process for its plan to add four new buildings to two superblocks just south of Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village.

No one calls him Sir Allen Stanford anymore. He is inmate number 35017-183. On Monday, the Texas financier heads to court in Houston to battle charges that he operated a $7 billion Ponzi scheme from Stanford International Bank Ltd., his offshore bank on the Caribbean island of Antigua.

Japan's Sony Corp. will transfer domestic construction of lithium-ion batteries used in products such as mobile phones and electric cars overseas by March 2014, as it works to overcome the strong yen, the Asahi newspaper reported on Saturday.

There are already as many as 15 U.S. states that allow patients the use of marijuana, as a legal substitute, to manage their pain and advocates fighting to legalize, regulate and tax cannabis claim they are now near victory.

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Vodafone's victory over India's tax authorities may have a sting in the tail. But if the government now changes the law, future offshore M&A deals may not escape so easily.

Energy conglomerate Reliance Industries reported its first quarterly profit drop in more than two years, and moved to bolster its underperforming shares by announcing a share buyback of up to 104.4 billion rupees.

Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman was awarded a $10.5 million bonus for 2011, down 25 percent from the previous year, according to a source familiar with the matter.

The Chevron Corp. announced Friday it has filed an appeal with Ecuador's National Court of Justice to review what the company calls an illegitimate ruling made against it this year.

Zach Tomaselli, the third person to accuse former Syracuse coach Bernie Fine of sexual assault, admitted on Friday that he doctored emails to the media in order to bolster his claims.

Apple unveiled iBooks 2 on Thursday, a sequel to its popular book and PDF reading application that now accommodates textbooks on the iPad. Here, we provide a guide to what you'll find in the new free app, and explain why iBooks 2 really is the future of textbooks.

The popular indie video game Minecraft will soon be ported to the Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA), and the developer of the game’s port is pushing for Minecraft to be the first game to receive constant updates on the XBLA platform. In addition, the XBLA version of Minecraft will be useable with the Microsoft Kinect.

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is buying some of the debt of hedge fund manager Philip Falcone's LightSquared Inc. as the ailing wireless-network company runs short of cash, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Intel Corp will promote 20-year company veteran and manufacturing expert Brian Krzanich to the post of chief operating officer, making him a frontrunner to one day replace Paul Otellini as chief executive.

The reason for the decline? Warmer-than-normal winter temperatures has dampened demand, and rising natural-gas inventories have taken their toll on the commodity's value, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

U.S. venture capitalists dipped deeper into their pockets to fund start-ups last year, despite a slowdown in the fourth quarter. The appetite for mature consumer web companies remained strong, while interest in early-stage companies tumbled.

Airlines utilizing the Airbus A380 will be required to conduct enhanced inspections following findings of cracks inside the wings of the aircraft, the European Aviation Safety Agency announced Friday.

Apple unveiled three new pieces of education software on Thursday -- iBooks 2, iBooks Author and iTunes U -- to collectively kill the school textbook once and for all. Despite this brilliant move, the hardware restrictions of the iPad 2 hold back the power of the iBooks software. This will change with the iPad 3.

Nike has unveiled its latest creation, the FuelBand, a new wristband used to track and measure fitness activity and regimen which could revolutionize the way fitness is monitored.

An Alabama man turned himself into New Orleans police on Thursday for sexual battery charges stemming from a teabagging incident after the BCS Championship game on Bourbon Street.