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After three weeks of the PlayStation Network outage, which was caused by hackers last month, Sony has announced that it will take a few more days until the service is restored. The company plans to test the system's strength fully before restoring the online network which offers gaming, streaming movies, and other services.

Architect Gary Chang in Hong Kong, where apartments are small and expensive due to lack of space, has turned his 330-square-foot apartment into 24 ‘rooms’ via a unique sliding wall system.

General Motors (NYSE: GM) is planning to add or preserve about 4,200 jobs in eight states (including 2,000 in the Detroit area alone), according to a report in the Detroit Free Press newspaper.

A new app is able to diagnose a stroke with the same accuracy as a medical computer workstation.

Software giant Microsoft is close to buying leading Internet phone company Skype Technologies SA for a deal valued at over $7 billion, according to sources close to the development.

BrandZ has published its list of the most valuable global brands in 2011.

The US housing market has continued its process of double-dipping in 2011.

After a month of delays, Endeavour will launch into space for the final time in Mid-May says NASA.

The final hideout where the terrorism chief Osama bin Laden was found and killed last week was not some desolate cave but a large house in the military garrison town of Abbottabad, Pakistan, just an hour from the capital Islamabad.

City Center Las Vegas boasts 18 million square feet and a $9 billion construction bill

The original architectural plans for the house in Abbottabad, Pakistan where Osama Bin Laden was found and killed have been revealed by The Independent.

George Speranza, the operator of a marketing company that created and published Internet websites, has pleaded guilty to a perjury charge and admitted that he gave false testimony before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in connection with the SEC's investigation of Spongetech Delivery Systems, Inc.

John Bravata, the founder and chairman of BBC Equities, LLC, has been arrested at JFK International Airport and charged with wire fraud in connection with his solicitation of investor funds for BBC, which Bravata characterized as a real estate investment fund.

United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian said that Marcel Perry, a/k/a Juxx, a/k/a Jooks, age 23, of Albany, New York, was sentenced on Friday by United States District Court Judge Gary L. Sharpe to 111 months' incarceration (Perry was facing a sentence of 130 months but received 19 months credit for time already served), five years of supervised release following his release from incarceration, and a $100 special assessment.

Lakeland-based Francois Piedrahas been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for distribution and possession of child pornography, followed by a life term of supervised release.

A former employee of the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has pleaded guilty along with her four co-conspirators to unlawfully providing Texas driver’s licenses for cash, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno said.

Two owners of a fraudulent Detroit-area medical clinic, Martin and Joaquin Tasis, and a man who helped them launder the proceeds of the fraud, Leoncio Alayon, were convicted on Friday by a federal jury in Detroit for their roles in a $9.1 million Medicare fraud scheme, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS) said.

Almost five years ago, in A New Book on Taxation of Residence Sales: Don't Leave Home Without It, I reviewed Julian Block’s HOME SELLER’S GUIDE TO TAX SAVINGS.”

Iconic and enigmatic tech visionary Steve Jobs is also a ‘corporate dictator’ who hates excuses from his senior executives, doesn't take kindly to any flop whatsoever and considers failure as anathema, according to new revelations.

The succession question at Apple has always been a trillion-dollar one, and markets have been on tenterhooks every time there was a new revelation -- truth or rumor -- about CEO Steve Jobs' health status. Now, there is somewhat conclusive evidence that the company is really looking up at the prospect of life without its iconic visionary leader. A Fortune magazine article written by Adam Lashinsky, excerpts of which have been published in various newspapers, says the company is offering traini...

Actress Sally Field has put her Malibu, CA home on the market for $5.9 million.

The killing of dreaded terrorist Osama bin Laden has triggered a controversy - did it violate international law?

Apple iPad 2 mania gripped China as customers and scalpers formed serpentine queues outside at Apple's four stores in Beijing and Shanghai.

Luxury carmaker Jaguar has put its hybrid supercar concept into production, the company said in a statement on Friday.

Visitors are continuing to flock to the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan where Osama bin Laden was killed on Sunday and the Al Qaeda chief’s final hideout is becoming a ‘ghoulish’ tourist attraction.

Though the unemployment rate did tick up to 9%, the U.S. economy had a net increase of 244,000 jobs in April.

Dreaded terrorist organization Al Qaeda has acknowledged that its founder and leader Osama bin Laden is dead, putting an end of conspiracy theories.

The house from the 90s hit film “Home Alone” where 8-year-old Kevin, played by Macaulay Culkin, outsmarts a pair of burglars is for sale for $2.4 million.

New details and photos of the raid carried out by the U.S. special ops forces on Sunday that killed dreaded terrorist Osama bin Laden have emerged and they both have failed to lift the fog of confusion as to how exactly bin Laden was killed and who were the men that died with him.