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Upscale leather goods maker Coach Inc posted higher-than-expected earnings and sales for the holiday quarter, helped by its growing favor with male shoppers, and its shares rose more than 6 percent.

Cloud computing, a way to store information and access software programs from far-away data farms is transforming computers from a product-based to a service-based industry.

Verizon Communications profit missed Wall Street expectations by a penny as its wireless business was hit by the high costs of sales of advanced phones such as the Apple Inc iPhone.

The Oscar nominations list for 2012 was full of snubs but also big shockers like Tree of Life and Extremely Loud in the Best Picture category.

Kyle Williams, the San Francisco 49ers' wide receiver whose two fumbles may have caused the team a chance at the Super Bowl, has said he takes the blame for mistakes.

Rapper 50 Cent claims to have won $500,000 in a bet after the New York Giants beat the San Francisco 49ers in a field goal in overtime during Sunday's game. The Giants will now face off against the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl on Feb. 5.

There are still hundreds of pages of campaign finance regulations and many of them are unconstitutional, says James Bopp, the legal mind behind the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United case. But it'll take time to knock them down.

'The Artist,' 'The Descendants' will vie for Best Picture title

Chinese communities across the world celebrated the first day of the lunar year and of their New Year, on Monday, Jan. 23.

German fashion designer and creative director of Chanel Karl Lagerfeld is all set to launch a new affordable line The Karl Collection exclusively on luxury retail brand, Net-a-Porter.

A Boston based hacker who gets hired by companies to find holes in their cyber-security now says videoconferencing equipment is, in general, wide-open to attack.

Software maker VMware Inc reported profit ahead of Wall Street expectations and released an outlook ahead of some forecasts, raising hopes that technology spending will grow this year, even as some warn that the economic outlook is grim.

The size of the Best Picture category is still unknown

The NHL champions visited the White House this week to meet the president.

Macy's Inc is suing Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc, accusing the company of breach of contract for entering into an agreement to sell certain products at stores run by its rival J.C. Penney Co Inc.

Apple Inc has been in many ways an unstoppable stock, and that has been even more the case after earnings. Going back eight years, on the day after the release of results, its shares have risen 70 percent of the time.

Stocks finished almost flat on Monday as investors took a break from a recent rally, awaiting earnings from bellwethers such as Apple later in the week.

Animal lovers across America will be thrilled to hear that Animal Planet is bringing the Puppy Bowl back for the eighth consecutive game on Super Bowl Sunday 2012. The starting line-up has been announced and pictures have been released of the adorable pups.

Longtime New York Yankees catcher Jorge Posada will officially announce his retirement on Tuesday after 17 seasons with the Bombers.

Focus on the User--a group of developers from Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and other social networking sites--has created a bookmarklet that can be added to any web browser and adds Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Quora, Tumblr, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Myspace, among other social networks to Google search results. The service was built as a proof of concept that social content could be added to Google's search results.

Super Bowl 2012 will be a rematch of 2008's New England Patriots - New York Giants game, but don't expect that to push ticket prices down too far.