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Apple, whose stock is currently trading at $585, has announced that it will be holding a conference call on Monday morning to discuss the company's plans for its approximately $100 billion in cash reserves.

According to J.D. Power and Associates, Apple has ranked top among smartphone manufacturers in terms of customer satisfaction, and it achieved this ranking for the seventh consecutive time.

The Land of Oz – Australia – is the first country where the new iPad got released on Friday morning. Luke Soules, the founder of California-based gadget repair firm – iFixit – made his way to Australia and picked up an iPad from a local store in Melbourne city. Here is what the iFixit guy revealed in the ultimate iPad postmortem.

A two-and-a-half minute official trailer has been released for Ridley Scott's Prometheus and it is sure to keep you wanting more. The full trailer debuted on Saturday in Anaheim, Calif., at WonderCon and it offers some more details about the storyline.

Police arrested dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters Saturday night during a protest marking the movement's six-month anniversary at its birthplace in New York's Zuccotti Park.

The tall American knocked off the top-ranked player.

Who is Raffles van Exel, the man who is said to have taken a photo of Whitney Houston's corpse at the family's private viewing and sold it to the National Enquirer?

Porn star Bree Olson, famous for being one of Charlie Sheen's Goddesses during his 2011 meltdown, is leeching onto another sinking ship. In the wake of the disturbing video of Kony 2012 filmmaker, Jason Russell, running around naked in public, Olson has decided to release her own video, Naked for Kony 2012.

Since his return to the United States last month, 19-year-old rapper Earl Sweatshirt has returned to high school, released a new track, gained 150,000 Twitter followers, and reportedly worked on a still-unreleased track with recording artist Santigold.

Jason Russell, co-founder of Invisible Children, the group behind the Kony 2012 viral video, as well as the Stop Kony campaign, was detained by San Diego police on Thursday.

Pity Activision Blizzard Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) at your own peril. The world's fastest growing video game maker suffers from the sort of unenviable problems most companies pray for. Its 37 percent growth rate over the last three years, with 2011 revenue topping $4.8 billion, earned it No. 185 on IBT 1000, a proprietary list created by the International Business Times of the top 1,000 fastest growing companies in the world.

Judea Pearl, father of American journalist Daniel Pearl who was abducted and beheaded by Taliban militants in Pakistan, has been honored with the prestigious 2011 A.M. Turing Award for artificial intelligence.

The US soldier who gunned down 16 Afghan villagers including women and children on Sunday was identified as Staff Sergeant Robert Bales.

Invisible Children co-founder Jason Russell, who was part of the group behind the viral Kony 2012 video and the Stop Kony campaign, was detained yesterday in California for allegedly drunkenly masturbating in public, according to the San Diego Police Department.

The Violence Against Women Act is at the center of an explosive debate in Congress this week. The bill has been authorized twice since its introduction in 1994, but this time Republicans are putting up a fight. Either way, things are looking up for Senate Democrats.

The world's ugliest dog, or most beautiful depending on your definition of beauty, Yoda died on Saturday peacefully in her sleep. Yoda's owner, Terry Schumacher, told the Hanford Sentinel that her ugly dog, a 15-year-old Chinese crested-Chihuahua mix who weighed just 1.8 pounds, died over the weekend.

NC State upset San Diego State 79-65 in their first-round Friday NCAA Tournament game, upsetting many office pools across the country. What does it mean for your March Madness bracket?

The federal government gave Oregon, Washington and Idaho permission to kill California sea lions that eat threatened and endangered salmon in the Columbia River Thursday.

This 2012 NCAA Tournament mid-game report offers insight and analysis about today's game, in which North Carolina State and San Diego State are battling for a tough Big Dance win.

Google is in for a major retooling of its search engine, aiming to make big changes in how it searches the Web. While traditional Internet search technologies recognize keywords typed into query boxes and deliver links to seemingly relevant Web sites, Google plans to do more than that – understand what people are actually searching for.

A recent scientific study provides evidence that the brown recluse spider is spreading out of southern regions into areas where the climate is becoming warmer.