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Nokia has been betting big on Lumia 900 ever since the company announced its plans to adopt Windows Phone as the primary platform for its smartphones. Lumia 900 eventually hit the US market through AT&T, on a $100 contract.

Home entertainment company Netflix Inc. (NAS: NFLX) is expected to post a loss for the first time in the last seven years, according to Wall Street analysts. Netflix Q1 results will be out Monday, and according to analysts, the entertainment trendsetter will lose 27 cents per share.

The International Mother Earth Day is observed April 22 and the world is already setting agendas to increase awareness about Earth's natural environment, and to make sure that we provide clean water and pollution free air to breathe for the future generations.

At a time when smartphone world is filled with the buzz of Apple's and Samsung's coming up flagship models, Intel Corporation has joined hands with a non-US company - Lava International - to launch their first smartphone in the market.

A top military publication in China has warned that the US may be risking an armed confrontation by undertaking a joint military exercise with the Philippines amid maritime tensions between Manila and Beijing over a disputed shoal in the South China Sea.

Australia, Singapore, South Korea and the UK have agreed to contribute a combined $41 billion to the International Monetary Fund reserve to boost a global firewall against Europe's debt crisis.

Twin brothers in the U.K. allegedly defrauded about 75,000 investors by telling them a stock-picking robot named "Marl" could identify penny stocks that would double in price while the brothers were simply listing stocks they were paid to promote, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged on Friday.

Mitt Romney, the newly minted presumptive GOP presidential nominee, sought to rally Republican Party officials around his campaign Friday with a speech tearing into President Barack Obama and his economic record.

Rich Ross stepped down as chairman of Walt Disney Co's movie studio after a less than three-year run that included the release of John Carter, one of the biggest flops in recent Hollywood history.

JPMorgan Chase & Co on Friday won the dismissal of a pension fund lawsuit accusing it of mishandling its money by investing in notes from its client Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, which later went bankrupt.

China and Russia are making military history this weekend with the first bilateral naval exercises the two governments have ever conducted together.

Titanic was a film that made movie history 15 years ago and with the 3d release last week it managed to break some more records. While many movie goers flocked to the 3d release for the nostalgia and some saw it on the big screen for the first time, the actors from the movie all had different reactions to it.

Hopes of government-sponsored bailouts rescued global markets once again this week, sending equities higher worldwide on Friday.

Newly elected members of Myanmar's pro-democracy opposition party may boycott the parliament to which they just won entry.

The U.S. military on Friday said it is investigating 11 service members for alleged misconduct in Colombia, according to the Associated Press.

Kimberly-Clark Corp. (NYSE: KMB), which makes Scott brand tissues, reported on Friday an increase in revenue and profits in its first quarter as cost-cutting and a boost in overseas sales made up for slow growth in the domestic market.

Balancing the ticket with a Hispanic running mate would do little to alter Romney's weak standing among Latinos, according to a new Public Policy Polling analysis.

Upbeat economic reports from Britain and Germany combined with surprisingly strong first-quarter earnings reports in the U.S. to foster a risk-on sentiment that lifted stocks and commodities while weighing on safe-haven investments.

Ads within smartphone applications such as the popular puzzle game Angry Birds are turning into a key driver for mobile advertising, as apps become the main distribution method for media on mobile phones, according to a report.

A rare penny was sold at auction Thursday for over 100 million times its nominal value.

A tale of love lost and the endless quest to find purpose in its cavernous wake, of the pain that remains when a shared life is torn away from two whose adoration for one another never fades, Chicken With Plums, which had its U.S. premiere on Thursday, takes us from the transcendent gardens of Tehran to the dreary streetscapes of a lonesome Paris.