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Google has a crisis response team working round the clock monitoring the emergencies and coming out with unique applications to cater the affected people anywhere in the world. Person finder was launched within 72 hours of earthquake hitting Haiti. For New Zealand it didn’t take more than three hours, and for Japan, it was just two hours.

The manufacturing slump in March confirms that Japan's economy contracted for a second successive quarter in the first three months of the year, and will mark outright decline in 2011, an analyst has said.

Texas Instruments buys National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion; the latter's stock soars in after-hours trading.

A company that supplies radiation safety and protection personnel to the nuclear power industry, is looking for people to go to Japan who might want to work in the Fukushima reactor complex.

Here is the latest IAEA update on nuclear crisis at Fukushima plant

Tokyo Electric Power Company says it is releasing radioactive water into the ocean so as to leave space in the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant for water that is more contaminated.

According to Amnesty International, as many as 527 people were executed in 2010. A staggering number of 17,833 people are counting their days in the death row in various countries. Following is an overview of the system of death penalty in China, Iran, the United States, Saudi Arabia, North Korea and Yemen which top the chart of executions worldwide.

Apple will add an 8 megapixel (MP) rear-facing camera in its upcoming iPhone 5 which would be supplied by Sony, suggesting that Apple's partnership with camera sensor provider OmniVision is ending.

Japanese authorities informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Sunday that external power supply was being used to power the pumps that are injecting fresh water into reactors 1, 2 and 3, thus replacing temporary electrical pumps. It was also informed that some lighting has been reactivated in the turbine buildings of Units 1, 2, 3 and 4.

The Tokyo Electric Power Co.(TEPCO) said on Sunday the bodies of two workers at the damaged Fukushia nuclear plant have been found. The bodies of the two young workers, Kazuhiko Kokubo and Yoshiki Terashima, were found a week ago, but they had to be decontaminated before being handed over to the relatives.

The following is the Live summary of Japan nuclear facilities so far from TEPCO:

For the first time since the north-eastern zone of Japan was devastated by earthquake and tsunami, the country's prime minister Naoto Kan visited the area and met the employees working to control the overheated reactors in the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex.

eBay says that nearly 12,000 iPads were sold via its service between the device's American and international launches

Here is the latest update on the ongoing nuclear crisis as the quake-damaged Fukushima power plant in Japan.

Robots from the United States are getting ready to help Japanese workers cope with the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

The grim search for bodies in the quake-and-tsunami devastated region of northeastern Japan has so far yielded 18 corpses, as Japanese Self-Defense Forces (SDF) and U.S. military personnel embark on a three-day intensive search for missing people, according to Japan’s Defense Ministry.

Spot Gold slumped 1.4% lunchtime Friday in London, falling back from its highest-ever monthly close as the Dollar jumped on news of stronger-than-expected US jobs hiring in March.

As the world keep a close eye on the earthquake-crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, US Department of Energy has released Japan's radiological assessment results.

China has set its total output of rare earth at 93,800 tonnes this year, 4,600 tonnes more or 5.16 percent higher compared to last year's, the Ministry of Land and Resources said on Thursday.

Minister Louis Farrakhan, the leader of Nation of Islam (NOI) in the U.S., has defended his brother” Moammar Gaddafi and blasted U.S. military action in Libya.

The company is phasing out the technology in favor of near-field communication, which would offer much of the same functionality of QR codes but with increased efficiency.