IBT Staff Reporter

There are now more than 100,000 applications made for the iPad. To be more specific, there are 100,159 iPad apps as of Thursday afternoon.

A number of RIM employees are taking to the web, via anonymous letters, to complain about the company's recent struggles.

Prosecutors will move to dismiss charges against former IMF-chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn when he returns to court on July 18, one source said Friday.

The pace of growth in U.S. manufacturing picked up for the first time in four months in June, surprising investors and fueling optimism the recent economic slowdown will be temporary.

General Motors Co and Ford Motor Co both reported weaker-than-expected U.S. sales gains in June as they again dialed back deals for car buyers despite the shaky economy.

The chambermaid who accused former IMF Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her in a luxury Manhattan hotel admitted to fabricating an account of being gang-raped by soldiers in Guinea, calling into to question her credibility.

The pace of growth in the U.S. manufacturing sector picked up for the first time in four months in June, a sign of optimism for the sputtering economy, according to an industry report released on Friday.

The company behind Farmville, Mafia Wars, Words With Friends, Empires and Allies and many other social games has officially filed for an IPO. In doing so, it follows in the footsteps of fellow social comapny, LinkedIn, which had an impressive IPO of its own last month.

Missing Hayward nursing student Michelle Le’s family have denied a media report that two out-of-state calls were made from Le’s phone after she went missing.

Stocks rallied on Friday for a fifth day and were on track to record their best week in nearly a year, after a surprising jump in manufacturing data eased concerns about a tepid economic recovery.

The potential future king and queen of Britain began their Canadian tour Thursday afternoon.

Nortel sells its 6,000 patents to a consortium of companies, none of which include Google.

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released without bail on Friday after a dramatic court hearing where the sexual assault case against him appeared to shift in his favor.

A slideshow which showcases the top 8 tablets which iPad 3 will have to contend with when it arrives in September.

A group including Apple, Research In Motion and Microsoft will pay $4.5 billion to snatch Nortel Networks' patents from under the noses of Google and Intel, stealing a march on their rivals in a litigious market.

Tony Alvarez recalls his doubts as he contemplated the wrecked, two-bedroom foreclosed house up for sale 30 years ago with his real estate agent's reassuring hand on his shoulder.

Barry Manilow, the piano man who didn't write his big hits despite proclaiming otherwise in I Write the Songs, is back in stores with his first album of original material in a decade.

The stars of Jackass' released an official tribute video to their friend Ryan Dunn who recently passed away.

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released without bail on Friday after a dramatic court hearing where the sexual assault case against him appeared to shift in his favor.

General Motors Co on Friday reported a weaker-than-expected gain in June U.S. sales and tempered its full-year forecast for the industry as some consumers were still holding back on buying cars.

Medicare continues paying for cancer drugs Avastin for breast cancer, and Provenge, for prostate cancer, regardless of what health regulators rule on the medicine's fate.

For your average robot, chess may be easy compared to simple everyday activities like frying a sausage, but that may be about to change thanks to software being developed by scientists in Germany.

As it turns out, Justin Timberlake's role as Napster founder Sean Parker in The Social Network was a wink and nod to the celebrity's little publicized role in driving Silicon Valley start-ups.

Eurogroup President Jean-Claude Juncker moved forward a meeting of euro zone finance ministers scheduled for Sunday in Brussels and changed it to a conference call on Saturday, his spokesman said on Friday.

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc said its second amended $65 billion bankruptcy liquidation plan won support from thirty institutions and affiliates, possibly setting the stage for the end of the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history.

The sexual assault case against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was close to collapse on Friday, sources close to the case said, in a dramatic turnabout that could upend French politics again.

Google+, Google's ambitious project to redefine the future of social media, has created a huge buzz. Google+ has posed threat to different groups in numerous ways - it has attacked boldly on the present social network king Facebook, while China allegedly blocked the access to Google+ with its great firewall, and Google's unpreparedness to face the massive influx of traffic has forced the beta version of Google+ to close its invitation door.

Actors Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts star in Larry Crowne released in theaters nationwide today. Critics give the romantic comedy uninspired mixed reviews.

A phenomenon called cloud seeding creates holes in clouds and causes more rain and snow to fall near airports.