Hao Li

AptiQuant, an online psychometric testing company, released a study claiming that Internet Explorer users are the dumbest.

AT&T announced that it will reduce the data throughput speed of its biggest data users on the unlimited data plan. The company stated it's responding to the explosive growth in data usage and the network congestion that comes with it.

The global population is expected to top 7 billion in 2011. By 2050, it's expected to exceed 9 billion. By 2100, it's expected to rise to 10 billion.

In a press release about axing its unlimited data plan, AT&T ended with the conclusion that "nothing short of completing the T-Mobile merger" will bring it back.

Unlimited data is no more at AT&T.

Apple's iPhone is the most shipped smartphone in the world, according to Strategy Analytics.

When Alibaba announced it was giving away subsidiary Alipay (a leading Chinese online payment platform) to a separate company controlled by Alibaba CEO Jack Ma, Yahoo! investors balked.

It took a two week-long cottage cheese rebellion to get Israelis to question the power of the country's tycoons.

Some major bond fund managers are asking their institutional clients to consider waiving strict requirements that might force mass selling of Treasury bonds if the United States loses its AAA rating.

Now that NASA is done with its Space Shuttle Program, the $100 billion International Space Station it worked so hard to build will stay afloat in space until at least 2020, according to comments by Russia's space agency.

With RIM firmly dethroned, the battle of supremacy in the U.S. smartphone market comes down to Google's Android OS and Apple's iOS.

Google's Android may be the most popular smartphone device, but Apple's iPhone is more adored.

Nielsen's latest statistics for the U.S. smartphone market in June show that current trends are firmly in place.

Fear the United States will lose its AAA credit rating or even default on its debt is driving foreigners away from U.S. assets, and the dollar is taking the biggest hit.

Gold firmed a touch on Thursday, lifted by concerns over a potential U.S. debt default as lawmakers in Washington argued over deficit-cutting measures, and lingering fears that the euro zone debt crisis could spread.

In 1861, the discovery of the archaeopteryx fossil was a big deal. The fossil had feathered wings like a bird but teeth and bony tail like a reptile.

"There is no analogy to this behavior on Earth," said Paul Hartogh of Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, the scientist who led the analysis that yielded the odd results.

McDonald?s is making some major changes to go healthy

Senator Al Franken of Minnesota is extremely against the proposed AT&T and T-Mobile merger and wrote a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to express his concerns.

Japanese authorities know there is not much they can do to turn a broad weak-dollar tide so will judge any intervention a success if it keeps speculative action from driving up the yen too far and too fast.

The autopsy of Amy Winehouse is inconclusive and provided no closure to friends and fans who wanted to know the cause of her death.

Some of the largest pension funds and investment firms have urged President Barack Obama and Congress to resolve the deficit impasse and avoid inflicting "pain and hardship" on the nation.

Fading hopes the Congress will strike a deal in debt talks any time soon have left investors scrambling to position themselves for what many now view as an inevitable downgrade of the U.S

The NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has made quite the discovery on the far side of the moon.

U.S. Senator Al Franken has written a letter the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to urge the rejection of the proposed AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile.

A new study found that rich countries have a higher incidence of depression than middle-income and lower-income countries.

An HTC spokesperson told Bloomberg that the company is willing to negotiate with Apple before both companies? United States International Trade Commission (ITC) rulings against each other finalize.

Europe is promising to help kick-start economic growth in Greece as a way of dragging the country out of its debt crisis, but the scheme looks likely to move too slowly to have much impact in the next couple of years.

At the once-feared commodity trading arms of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the pressure to do better in the second half of this year has never been more intense.