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The Screen Actors Guild on Wednesday picked nominees for best performances of 2011 in movies and television. While the group that represents actors honors TV performances, the SAG Awards are more closely watched for their impact in the race for Oscars.

JumpTime, a Los-Angeles based technology company, has hired media veteran Elizabeth Osder as SVP of Strategy & Business Development.

Police in Baltimore evicted anti-Wall Street protesters on Tuesday and operations returned to normal at West Coast ports a day after a series of marches that disrupted operations at several terminals.

U.S. solar installations soared nearly 40 percent in the third quarter and are likely to be even higher in the current period, though 2011 overall will lag expectations slightly due to a decline in state incentives.

Los Angeles Times editor Russ Stanton will step down this month and be replaced by the managing editor for news, the newspaper said on Tuesday.

Astrophysicists now have a snapshot of a rare event for the first time: a black hole eating its cold and dusty dinner.

Lindsay Lohan didn't make it back to Los Angeles in time for her much-anticipated appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, but did make sure to get back to party at a Jay-Z concert.

Chinese wines took the top four places in a China vs Bordeaux blind tasting competition on Wednesday, but it wasn't exactly a thrashing of the world's most elite wines by Chinese upstarts.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie Bezos, donated $15 million to Princeton University for a biosciences unit within the Princeton Neuroscience Institute

Microsoft co-founder and entrepreneur Paul Allen has teamed up with SpaceShipOne's Burt Rutan for a carrier aircraft designed to launch next-generation rockets from high altitude.

Facebook launched a new suicide prevention tool on Tuesday, giving users a direct link to an online chat with counselors who can help, the company said.

Michael Jackson's doctor on Tuesday asked for a publicly-funded lawyer to handle his appeal on a manslaughter conviction in the pop star's death, saying he could not afford to pay for one himself.

Activist investor Daniel Loeb, who already owns 5.2 percent of Yahoo, sent another letter to the company. This time, he demanded to see a list of prospective bidders.

The Federal Communications Commission got authority to adopt rules regulating the volume of television commercials when Congress passed the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act, or CALM Act.

Mairah Yeater's ex Robert Powell has come forward with a shocking revelation in the Justin Bieber paternity scandal: not only did Yeater make up the Bieber baby daddy story, but she sold it to a tabloid for $50,000... all while hiding the fact that Powell was the real father. Read the exclusive interview, and find out why Yeater picked Bieber to set up.

A rumor that Verizon will buy Netflix is flying around, pushing up Netflix shares by 6.2 percent to $75.26 on Monday. The stock continues to rise Tuesday, with Netflix trading up $1.20 to $76.16 in early-afternoon trading.

Facebook launched a suicide prevention program with the Lifeline Tuesday, which will give troubled users an ability to chat with crisis experts 24 hours a day.

Panetta is heralding what now appears to be an improving security situation in Afghanistan.

It's not been a good year for former CSI star Gary Dourdan; He was arrested in November for domestic violence and drug possession the same night he was in a violent car crash and is now facing foreclosure on his home in California.

Perrette, best known as the go-to goth girl Abby Sciuto on NCIS, has been voted one of TV's Most Likeable stars, thanks to her recent announcement not to marry fiance Thomas Arkie until California's Prop 8 is overturned. Watch Pauley Perrette's NOH8 video here, and find out why she was voted the most likeable TV star.

Samsung Galaxy Nexus is yet to hit U.S. shores officially but some lucky Android fans seem to have already acquired the highly anticipated Ice Cream Sandwich-powered smartphone from Best Buy and Verizon retail stores over the weekend.