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Shares of Apple rose only 2.3 percent to $417.80, in midday trading, hours after the iPhone 4S was first handed out to customers worldwide. But the company retained its title as the world’s most valuable company, outpacing Exxon Mobil.

Internet entertainment site Hulu is no longer for sale, keeping it for now under the umbrellas of media giants Walt Disney, News Corp. and Comcast UniversalNBC.

Scott Evans Dekraai, who's accused of killing his ex-wife and seven others in a shooting spree at a Seal Beach, Calif. beauty salon, is expected to be charged with murder when the charges are filed Friday.

Shares of Apple rose only 2 percent to $416.59, in the first half hour of Friday trading, two hours after the iPhone 4S was first handed out to customers in the Eastern time zone.

Apple opened the floodgates of iPhone 4S on Friday, at 8 a.m. local time in US, UK, Canada, France and Germany following Japan and Australia in rolling out the company's flagship phone in retail stores.

Two medical experts took the stand on Wednesday Oct. 12, testifying with one accord that Dr. Conrad Murray unethically treated Michael Jackson, which led up to his death.

From a server glitch at a Japanese carrier selling iPhone 4S to Steve Wozniak taking his position in a line at an Apple Store in California, and from the spectacle of people braving the weather to others bringing in cattle to stand in the queue, the iPhone 4S launch day is shaping up in colorful way. There ought to be solid reasons why iPhone 4S is a good buy right now. The following are some of them:

iPhone 4S launch is shaping up as the mother of all launches. Apple Stores worldwide have come alive in a celebratory mood, shaking off the gloom that Steve Jobs' death created , gingerly welcoming the last iPhone that had the dead icon's signature on.

Men’s Health magazine has released a latest ranking of America’s 100 luckiest towns according to which, San Diego has been ranked the luckiest city of United States.The top ten slot features California city and of course, the gambling capital of the country Las Vegas is also listed.

After the pre-orders record breaking sales queues are formed outside many Apple stores this week with customers keen to get hold of the new iPhone 4S.

One of the largest private investors in failed solar firm Solyndra recommended the company's panels for a U.S. Navy contract at a time when the company was struggling with cash flow, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Congress passed the Protect Life Act Thursday evening. The bill, introduced by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa), is an attempt to bar federal funds from going towards health care plans that cover abortions. The bill, HR 385, prohibits women who are under the Affordable Care Act to purchase health insurance plans that cover abortion, even though most health insurance plans do in fact cover abortions.

Add some more private equity bigfeet to the cluster that may be looking to acquire Yahoo: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Blackstone Group.

Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm has quit the Dow Chemical Co.'s board of directors to host a political TV show on Al Gore's cable TV network.

Southern California shooting suspect Scott Dekraai, 42, allegedly shot his ex-wife Michelle Fournier Dekraai and several others on Wednesday at a Seal Beach hair salon where she is employed. But an attorney for the ex-wife said he didn't see any indication of violence from the suspect.

A gunman opened fire at a busy hair salon in the Southern California coastal town of Seal Beach on Wednesday in a shooting rampage that left eight people dead and another critically wounded, police said.

Scott Evans Dekraai was arrested Thursday morning and will be charged in the shooting that killed eight people at a hair salon in Seal Beach, Calif., on Wednesday.

An Amtrak train crashed into another train late Wednesday injuring 17 people aboard the two trains in California.

Eighteen people suffered minor injuries on Wednesday in a slow-speed crash between two Amtrak passenger trains at a railway station in Northern California, authorities said.

Shareef Allman, who killed three of his colleagues and injured six others at a California limestone quarry, died during a confrontation with three sheriff's deputies of Santa Clara County. His autopsy revealed he died of a self-inflicted shot on head.

A gunman opened fire at a busy hair salon in coastal town Seal Beach in Southern California on Wednesday, resulting in the death of eight people while one was wounded critically, according to the authorities.