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Lockheed Martin Corp's space systems unit said on Tuesday it would cut 1,200 workers, or about 7.5 percent of the division's total workforce, by year's end to reduce costs and improve its competitive standing.

Rambus successfully fended off an attempt by opponents in an upcoming $4.38 billion antitrust trial to use a recent negative court ruling over document shredding against the chipmaker.

A federal judge ruled today upheld a gay judge's ruling striking down California's ban, rejecting arguments that the judge's sexual orientation compromised his impartiality.

Dominick Cruz and Urijan Faber should be the best bantamweight title fight of the year.

Advanced Micro Devices, nearing half a year without a chief executive, is launching new processors aimed at mainstream personal computers and challenging rivals Intel and Nvidia.

Mildred Baena, the housekeeper who had a child by Arnold Schwarzenegger, finally broke her silence on Tuesday.

Mildred Baena, the mother of Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's love child, Joseph, has given her first interview to Hello! Magazine and posed for photos with her son.

Google made its biggest green investment yet $280 million dollars in a deal with Solarcity, which will use the funds to finance rooftop installations.

The spiraling gun violence in Mexico is largely fuelled by weapons produced in the U.S., according to a report from the U.S. Congress.

Google and solar power company SolarCity formed a partnership to create a new $280 million fund designated for residential solar projects -- the largest of its kind in the United States.

California-based information technology giant HP (Hewlett-Packard) has conducted research on health monitoring solutions at its Data Center Design for Cloud Computing

59-year old Bill Warren, an eccentric California based diver has announced a rather ambitious plan to conduct an underwater mission to recover the body of Osama Bin Laden. Warren is currently gathering resources to scour the North Arabian sea bed which has an estimated surface area of four million square kilometers.

The Palo Alto, California-based social network's growth is slowing and it suffered major traffic drops in the United States and Canada last month, said Inside Facebook, which closely tracks Facebook's developments and trends.

HP's chief information officer Randy Mott shown the door as CEO Leo Apotheker shakes things up.

Hewlett-Packard Co moved a veteran executive onto its board and announced the departure of two senior officers in a major ongoing management shake-up, and put new focus on China and India.

A judge's ruling on Proposition 8 is called into question

The First Lady is in Southern California today, and she kicked off the morning with a panel discussion on how to improve integration of military family stories into film and TV. The event was hosted at the Writers Guild Theater in Bevery Hills,

More than 200 foreign migrant workers were discovered on a truck bound for the United States.

In a racially charged case, white ex-police officer Johannes Mehserle, whose killing of a 22-year old unarmed black man on a train platform was caught on video from multiple cameras, was released from prison after 11 months.

Harold Camping suffered a stroke last Thursday night, reported The Oakland Tribune.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Monday are: VF Corp, Hartford Financial, Caterpillar, Adobe Systems, Gilead Sciences, Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Devon Energy, Regions Financial, Harley Davidson and Ford Motor Co.