CALIFORNIA

California Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, on Tuesday declared a state of emergency to tackle the swine flu outbreak in the most populous U.S. state.

California's housing-market slump showed hints of improvement in March, with sales of existing single-family homes increasing 64% from the prior-year period and median home prices rising month-to-month for the first time since August 2007, according to a trade group report.

U.S. lawmakers plan to take a closer look this week at the federal government's response to the swine flu outbreak that has sickened people in five states and killed dozens in Mexico.

Two more students at a Sacramento-area school have been confirmed to have swine flu, health officials said on Monday, bringing to 13 the number of known cases in California.

More than 40 people in five states have been sickened by new strain of swine flu that doctors fear may cause a pandemic, U.S. officials said on Monday, promising more cases to come.

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Phoenix-based Stirling Energy Systems announced Monday it is expanding by launching Tessera Solar, a new unit to manufacture the products used to build large solar-thermal power plants in the U.S. and the rest of the world.

Mexico said a new flu virus has killed up to 149 people and it ordered all schools to close across the country on Monday as the disease spread in the United States, Canada and Europe, raising fears of a pandemic.

Facebook regularly attracts more than 200 million people to its website, but the company is now looking for ways to permeate the lives of its users without the need to check-in to the Facebook site.

California's new low-carbon fuel rules may be a violation of NAFTA and World Trade Organization provisions because they would unfairly limit exports of crude from Canada's oil sands to the state, a prominent Canadian trade lawyer said Friday.

Wireless chip supplier Qualcomm Inc agreed to pay smaller rival Broadcom Corp $891 million over four years to settle long-standing and increasingly bitter legal battles over technology patents.

U.S. stocks may run into some turbulence this week as the impending release of bank stress test results, a Federal Reserve meeting and a flood of earnings give investors reasons for caution.

Internet social media company Facebook plans to allow outside developers access to core parts of the website so they can build new services, a person familiar with the situation said.

The Swine flu that hit Mexico has now hit the U.S. and there are more than 20 reported cases.

U.S. stocks may run into some turbulence this week as the impending release of bank stress test results, a Federal Reserve meeting and a flood of earnings will give investors some reasons for caution.

Yahoo Inc's communications head Brad Williams has left the company, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing sources familiar with the matter.

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The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA), a representative for the ethanol industry, is disappointed about California's decision on Thursday to adopt a low carbon fuel standard because it says is unfairly penalizing ethanol.

A strain of swine flu found in eight people in California and Texas has been linked to the deadly flu that has killed as many as 60 people and left 900 sick in Mexico.

California's Riverside County has been one of the most punished areas in the U.S. housing crash and now local leaders are among the first in the nation with a program to buy foreclosed homes and sell them back to young families.

A deadly strain of swine flu never seen before has killed as many as 61 people in Mexico and has spread into the United States, where several people were reported ill.