Apple announced its most profitable quarter ever on Tuesday, but now that the bar is set so high, all eyes will be on the next iPad and iPhone to carry the company's success through the year.
Florence and the Machine officially announced their spring tour in the U.S. Monday. The band will kick off their tour on Apr. 14 in Santa Barbara, Calif. and end their tour on May 12 in Atlantic City, N.J, playing sixteen shows along the way. Check out the dates and U.S. locations of Florence and the Machine's 2012 tour. Also, find more information about the band's newest album, Ceremonials.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Friday announced the formation of a task force focused on probing residential mortgage-backed securities following President Barack Obama's call for a unit to probe the finance industry's conduct leading up to the financial crisis.
Facebook could file papers for an initial public offering, or, IPO, as early as Wednesday. Estimates of its valuation are in the range of $75 billion to $100 billion. Morgan Stanley may be lead underwriter.
Facebook could file for its initial public offering as early as Feb.1, valuing the company as high as $100 billion, a report said.
Pat Sajak recently admitted during an interview that he and co-host Vanna White would frequently get drunk before hosting Wheel of Fortune, but they're not the only celebrities and high-profile people guilty of throwing a few back before getting in front of the camera. Here are videos of 10 other celebrities who have made drunken television appearances.
Taco Bell rolled out their new breakfast menu, FirstMeal, in 750 stores in western states like California, Arizona and Colorado, and a select number of stores in Texas, Ohio and Oklahoma on Thursday. View the slideshow to see the 11 items offered on Taco Bell's new breakfast menu in participating locations.
Yale quarterback Patrick Witt made worldwide headlines when he withdrew his Rhodes scholarship application in order to play against Harvard, but a shocking new report shows that he actually withdrew due to sexual assault allegations.
Shares of energy giant Chevron Corp. tumbled Friday after losses from refining operations cut fourth-quarter profit to less than analysts expected.
NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has found 11 new planetary systems, including one with five planets all orbiting closer to their parent star than Mercury circles the Sun, scientists said on Thursday.
Facebook and the state of Washington sued a company on Thursday they accused of a practice called clickjacking that fools users of the world's top social network into visiting advertising sites, divulging personal information and spreading the scam to friends.
Shares of Juniper Networks plunged nearly 11 percent as the Internet equipment maker reported dismal first-quarter results and it lost market share to No. 1 maker Cisco Systems.But they recovered a bit on Friday.
The top after-market NASDAQ Losers Thursday were: 1-800 FLOWERS.COM, Riverbed Technology, BroadVision, Rambus, Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, TeleNav, Cbeyond, Oclaro, CIENA Corp and Aruba Networks.
A leading U.S. lawmaker on online privacy issues said Thursday he would ask for a probe into whether recently announced changes in how Google handles consumer data violated an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission.
California was rocked by an earthquake Thursday morning, about two miles from The Geysers.
Apple could ship a 42-inch TV set featuring organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays as well as controls activated by the Siri “voice assistant” in the iPhone 4S, a report said.It could Apple TV or iTV.
Judges said they relied on attorneys, court staff and other jurors to catch improper social media use in the jury box.
Shares of entertainment provider Netflix surged nearly 26 percent after the company reported subscribers are returning after separate miscues last year.
Mexican fast-food chain Taco Bell will begin serving breakfast, and not just to people who wander in at 3 A.M.
The average Muslim convert in the U.K. is described as a “27-year-old white woman.”
An unexplained and sometimes debilitating disease that causes oozing sores and fibers to grow from patients' skin doesn't come from a mysterious bug or virus, federal researchers reported Wednesday. The disease is all in the mind.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has a problem, a $98 billion problem. Just 18 months ago, Apple's $46 billion mountain of cash, while huge by most standards, attracted only muted complaints from investors, who did call for a dividend or share buyback, but were mostly happy with the meteoric rise in the stock price.
