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Banks seized more than a million U.S. homes in one year for the first time last year, despite a slowdown in the last few months as questions around foreclosure processing arose, a leading firm said on Thursday.

A number of states are altering electricity prices to make people use less, but that may have the effect of discouraging people from buying plug-in vehicles, according to a study from Purdue University.

Sarah Palin will probably never become President of the U.S. because she does not have an Ivy League education.

Search giant Google has acquired start-up firm eBook Technologies Inc. for an undisclosed sum, a move that is likely to boost its recently launched eBook store.

Facebook has moved to dismiss a class action suit that charges the company is advertising its Friend Finder service with users' likenesses without their consent.

After repossessing more than a record 1 million homes in the U.S., banks are now poised to foreclosure on even more properties in 2011, according to Realty Trac Inc.

An innovative course at the School of Information at UC Berkeley help students turn social entrepreneurs and make a real difference

In partnership with CERN, the LEGO Group, National Geographic, and Scientific American, Google is trying to seek out some of the best young scientists from across the globe.

U.S. housing prices overall are expected to hit bottom by spring 2011 and begin a gradual rise in 2012, Frank Nothaft, chief economist and vice president of housing lender Freddie Mac said on Wednesday.

Federal law enforcement arrested a California man today and charged him with making death threats to U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott, D-WA, according to federal authorities.

In yet another example of a cash-strapped state seeking to alleviate a crushing budget deficit, the newly-elected governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, has slashed his salary by 5 percent and may seek to freeze salaries across the state for one year.

Sony Computer Entertainment America has filed for a restraining order against a hacker who posted a method of jailbreaking PlayStation 3 consoles, allowing them to run other operating systems and software not authorized by Sony.

Half a million students studying at Washington State's 34 two-year colleges will now be accessing online study material compiled by experts.

Shares of gunmaker Sturm, Ruger & Co. (NYSE:RGR) are trading higher today apparently boosted by a surge in sales of handguns in Arizona following the weekend massacre in Tucson by Jared Lee Loughner.

Astronomers have discovered Kepler-10b, the smallest planet outside our solar system and the first that is undoubtedly rocky like Earth but more hotter than molten iron.

The whole world is as excited as the Beckhams with the announcement of their new arrival and keeping fingers crossed for a girl

California’s governor Jerry Brown has unveiled a budget plan for the state which will cut welfare spending in half, reduce the state university’s systems coffers by 20 percent and slash healthcare coverage for the poor.

Top South Korean film director Park Chan-wook has shot an entire movie with iPhone.

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Conexant Systems, Dot Hill Systems, Qiao Xing Universal Resources, SunPower, Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, and Genzyme. The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Strayer Education, Apollo Group, PDL BioPharma, Rovi, and Corinthian Colleges.

Three among the United States' premier universities find a place among the top 5 in University of Indonesia's Green Metric Ranking of World Universities for 2010

A celebrity gossip website on Friday posted a photo that it claims shows Inland Rep. Mary Bono Mack in a playful, but compromising position.