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The Madison Square Garden Company and Time Warner Cable spat may go on for a while after MSG Networks was pulled from the New York-based cable company's lineup Sunday after the two parties failed to come to an agreement on how much Time Warner Cable would pay for MSG services.

Starbucks Corp. announced on Tuesday that its menu prices are going up, with a price increase to affect all of the Northeast states in the U.S. and the Sunbelt to offset its costs. Your latte just got a latte more expensive.

It was the year of Mila Kunis.

For the 20th consecutive year, Intel was the world’s biggest chipmaker, with a commanding lead over No. 2 rival, Samsung Electronics, market research firm Gartner estimated.

Three men were arrested and a fourth is being sought by the FBI in what investigators said was a scheme to market stem cells as miracle cures to desperate people suffering from terminal diseases.

Fuel-efficient cars and a slew of new SUV models will be unveiled at Delhi's Auto Expo later this week as global carmakers continue to rev up their activity in one of the world's few growth engines despite a recent slowdown in sales.

Bajaj Auto Ltd launched its first-ever four-wheeled vehicle on Tuesday, saying the RE60 would target commercial users and three-wheeled vehicle owners in India, and that production could involve Nissan and Renault.

A recent rumor has surfaced on the Internet that states Apple's iTV is on track to be released by the end of 2012. Apparently Samsung has begun making chips and Sharp the displays.

Apple iPhone 5 rumors have been continuously circulating on the Internet, with the most recent one, from Barclays Capital, stating the iPhone is Apple's largest and most profitable product line.

So far Apple has declined to comment as per the report. But with lack of hard facts and a brand new year kicking off, the tech giant may have anything up its sleeve. However confirmations on long-running speculations will have to wait until Apple finally breaks its wall of silence.

Intel are expected to provide a glimpse of their Clover Trail-based prototype tablets at the Consumer Electronics Show.

Steam, only last September, had 4 million users online at the same time.

Caterpillar Inc's Electro-Motive unit has decided to lock out locomotive manufacturing workers in London, Ontario, after finding out the Canadian Auto Workers told members not to strike following the breakdown of contract negotiations.

Will Wright, the designer behind successful video game simulations including SimCity, The Sims and Spore, is at it again. Only this time, rather than controlling virtual people or creating space creatures, the protagonist of HiveMind is the actual player.

The HGTV Dream Home 2012 contest is finally underway. One lucky winner will get the prize of a lifetime - a modern, western ranch in Park City, Utah.

After the holiday party comes the hangover for retailers: handling millions of returns this week.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, in a surprise move, has opened an account on micro-blogging Web site Twitter. The 80-year-old, however, received mixed reactions and some sharp criticism, from his now fellow micro-bloggers.

The HTC Amaze 4G, which was released in October for T-Mobile, is expected to face immense competition from the first Ice Cream Sandwich phone, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which was made available in November for Verizon Wireless.

If you are yet to decide how to use the new gadgets you've just received this Christmas, hold your breath as another set of minblowing tech bonanzas are ready to turn you around next week. This year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is scheduled to take place in Las Vegas from Jan. 10 to Jan. 13.

Apple Inc. has more than $81 billion of cash on its books with about one-third held in the U.S. This is because of its continuing success of products like iPhone, iPad, iPod and Mac. So what will Apple do with all the cash hoard?

Barclays Capital believes Apple Inc. may launch two iPads in 2012 - one with better cameras, higher resolution display, an A5 processor and Siri in March and another, coming later in the year, perhaps incorporating a faster processor and 4G LTE.

Telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent does not expect deep job cuts like those announced by rival Nokia Siemens Networks , Chief Executive Ben Verwaayen said in an interview published on Monday in French daily Les Echos.

MLB.TV will be available at the Store.

GTA 5 is still awaiting a release date.

Today at 5:00 p.m. EST, both Oregon Ducks and Wisconsin Badgers will don their new Rose Bowl uniforms in the football match at Pasadena, Calif. The game will be telecast live on ESPN. Well, it will be more interesting than a game to watch not only the teams battling in the match but their jersey designers --- leading sports apparel companies, Nike and Adidas -- having a head-to-head in the Rose Bowl.

The Android-powered tablet is not a bad device though. The 9.4 inch device runs on the Honeycomb operating system and packs a dual-core 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor. The tablet also sports a 5 megapixel rear camera and a 0.3-megapixel camera up front.

Hyundai and affiliate Kia aim to boost global vehicle sales by 6 percent this year to a combined 7 million vehicles, which would mark a slowdown for a duo that has enjoyed double-digit sales rises in recent years.

An arbitration panel has awarded U.S. oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp $908 million in compensation for Venezuela's 2007 nationalization of its assets, less than 10 percent of what the company sought in a long legal battle with the OPEC nation.

Caterpillar Inc is unilaterally implementing lower wage and benefit terms for locomotive manufacturing workers in London, Ontario after Canadian Auto Workers negotiations failed in the days leading up to a contract expiration.