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After a gap of more than two years and 26 tournaments without a win, Tiger Woods has finally ended his victory drought Sunday when he stood over a 6-foot birdie putt to win the 2011 Chevron World Challenge at the Sherwood Country Club in Thousands Oaks, Calif.

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Nathan's Famous, Thoratec, Netlist, Iridium Communications, and DryShips. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Internap Network Services, PowerSecure International, Clearwire, Bon-Ton Stores, and Pacific Biosciences of California.

American video games developer, Epic Games, is reportedly set to make a big announcement this weekend, at the Spike Video Games Award (VGA), which will honor the best games in 2011.

A court error on Friday offered a brief glimpse at information that Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics have tried to shield from the public during their high-stakes patent litigation.

Amtrak passengers riding through the Capitol Corridor in California will now have free Wi-Fi access onboard the trains.

A U.S. court error Friday offered a brief glimpse at information that Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics have tried to shield from the public during their high-stakes patent litigation.

A U.S. court error on Friday offered a brief glimpse at information that Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics have tried to shield from the public during their high-stakes patent litigation.

World's No.1 social network, Facebook, confirmed Monday it has hired Gowalla's management team but is not interested in the brand's service or location-based technology.

As Oracle, SAP and IBM snap up rivals in business analytics software, Information Builders will stay independent, founding CEO Gerald D. Cohen told International Business Times.

The Big 12 will send eight of its teams to bowl games this season. Conference leaders Kansas State and Oklahoma State will play in the Cotton Bowl and Fiesta Bowl, respectively.

The BCS released its bowl game selections on Sunday night and within hours Las Vegas casinos have released the betting lines on all 35 games.

Scientists had theorized the existence of a thin layer of the sun's outermost atmosphere where the interstellar winds bumped up against the last gasps of high energy particles at the edge of our solar system. Voyager 1, speeding through the cosmos for the last 35 years, has finally reached this zone and confirmed the sun's energy has indeed given way to particles from other galaxies.

The Computer History Museum, or CHM, on Monday announced the launch of its new online exhibit on Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs.

The health data analysis revealed that between 1988 and 2008 the number of white people with HIV/AIDS had almost doubled, while the number of cases for blacks had tripled and it was up more than five times for Hispanics. Native Americans and Asian/Pacific Islanders with HIV/AIDs has also increased dramatically in number, but the overall representation number is still low.

A U.S. District Court judge has denied Apple's request for a preliminary injunction against Samsung Electronics' devices.

Michael Mukasey, a former federal judge and attorney general under President George W. Bush, said arguments for Justices Elena Kagan and Clarence Thomas to recuse themselves from the Affordable Care Act case are flimsy at best.

Comic actor Alan Sues, best known for his roles on the television series Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In from the late 60s to early 70s, died on Thursday of cardiac arrest according to reports.

The Senate decides not to clarify whether the government can arrest and indefinitely hold American citizens captured on U.S. soil, leaving a key debate about expanded presidential powers during the war on terror up to the president and the courts.

Here is the complete BCS bowl games schedule for the 2011-2012 season, including the match-ups and where you can watch the games.

For instance, many among Facebook's 800 million users were interested in a dog mourning the death of a Navy SEAL killed in Afghanistan than they were in stories about troops being pulled out of Afghanistan. Anyway, here is the list from Facebook of its 40 most shared articles of 2011.

The economy showed signs it was decelerating, with an index of service activity pointing to slower growth in November while new orders for factory goods declined in October for the second straight month.