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The outbreak of the new H1N1 flu virus has begun to wane with the start of summer in North America, and U.S. health officials said on Thursday they are looking to lessons learned as they prepare for its return in the autumn.

The world's top chip maker Intel Corp said it agreed to buy Wind River Systems Inc. for about $884 million to gain a stronger foothold in the embedded systems and mobile handheld devices space.

Apple Inc plans to invest up to $1 billion over the next nine years to build a data center in North Carolina.

Automaker Coda Automotive announced today it has an all-electric sedan ready to enter the U.S. market by 2010.

The weak labor market is hurting U.S. cities -- centers of many industries and large housing markets -- with 93 metropolitan areas registering an unemployment rate of at least 10 percent in April, according to Labor Department data released on Wednesday.

General Motors Corp said it had reached a preliminary deal to sell its Hummer brand, part of its effort to shed half of its eight U.S. lines and leave bankruptcy court protection as a leaner company.

California's highest court on Monday ruled that Bank of America Corp need not pay a potential $1 billion or more to customers who claimed the bank illegally raided Social Security benefits to collect fees.

California's highest court on Monday ruled that Bank of America Corp need not pay a potential $1 billion or more to customers who claimed the bank illegally raided Social Security benefits to collect fees.

Advanced Micro Devices launched its new six-core Istanbul processor benefiting data centers for databases and server consolidation using virtualizations.

Microsoft unveiled its improved search engine called “Bing” this week and is doing so without the help of Yahoo’s search engine, as negotiations for a possible deal are stalled.

The National Ignition Facility - the U.S. largest laser system to date which aims to achieve self-sustaining nuclear fusion and energy gain – formally opened on Friday at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

A U.S. traffic safety agency has ordered the first recall of Tesla’s electric sports car Roadster over a problem which can cause its rear wheels to come loose.

Funding for poison control services has been completely eliminated from the Governor's budget. Poison control services cost California $5.9 million but save $70 million in health care costs and prevent 164,000 emergency room visits each year.

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, in conjunction with Ralphs and L.A. Care Health Plan, will give away the largest free supply of nicotine patches and gum in California, and are asking residents who are interested in helping others quit smoking to volunteer during this giveaway.

Microsoft Corp is revamping its search engine to counter the dominance of Google Inc in the Web search and related advertising business.

One of eight U.S. households with a mortgage ended the first quarter late on loan payments or in the foreclosure process in a crisis that will persist for at least another year until unemployment peaks, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Thursday.

One of eight U.S. households with a mortgage ended the first quarter late on loan payments or in the foreclosure process in a crisis that will persist for at least another year until unemployment peaks, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Thursday.

A multicenter research team has announced encouraging results for an experimental therapy using elements of the body's immune system to improve cure rates for children with neuroblastoma, a challenging cancer of the nervous system.

The U.S. economy is showing signs of stabilizing after suffering the worst economic crisis in decades, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday.

The battle over U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor began to take shape on Wednesday as liberal supporters praised her as an independent legal thinker and conservatives argued she likely would rule based on her emotions rather than established precedent.

Two lawyers who squared off in the legal case that determined the 2000 U.S. presidential election joined forces on Wednesday to ask a federal court to halt California's same-sex marriage ban, despite warnings from gay rights advocates not to mount a federal challenge.