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Stock index futures were higher on Friday as bargain hunters entered the market after a string of declines, putting equities on track to record their strongest quarter in more than two years.

Research In Motion Limited, the Canadian smartphone maker, Thursday reported that its fourth-quarter net loss was $125 million, raising concerns about its future and forcing its CEO to announce strategic plans to revamp the company.

As the digital age reaches the dormant stage of social adaptation, having left its mark on the daily process of culture at large, can we add viralism or another digitally referential marker to our collective art discourse? Moreover, is viral a relevant -- let alone acceptable -- aesthetic stance?

A former federal security manager was arrested while on the job at Dulles International Airport for running a prostitution ring out of a Crowne Plaza Hotel in Silver Spring, Maryland. According to the Washington Post, the man, 39 year-old Bryant Jermaine Livingston was involved in a prostitution scheme which involved men being escorted from the lobby of the Silver Spring hotel, to room 506 to engage in group sex for a fee. Livingston was charged with five counts of prostitution on March 16, acc...

Union workers held a general 24 hour strike across Spain Thursday to protest austerity cuts, labor reforms, and its record 23 percent unemployment rate.

Florida East Coast Industries announced plans last week to run private passenger trains from Miami to Orlando, which would be the first new private passenger rail service in the U.S. in decades.

Patrick Ewing and Jeff Van Gundy may be gunning to coach the Knicks next season.

Apple has been sticking to 3.5-inch screen size for its phones and 9.7-inch screen size for its tablets. But for past few months, we have been hearing rumors about bigger screen iPhone and smaller screen iPad dubbed iPad Mini. Recent reports have warmed up all these rumors.

The new iPad's smoke has finally cleared and the Apple fan crowd has now gathered around the iPhone 5 rumor mill. And they haven't been left disappointed. Though the actual release of Apple's sixth generation smartphone could be several months away, the rumor mill is churning in earnest and the latest buzz comes from RepairLabs, which reported that Texas Instrumentals have begun production of iPhone 5's power management chip.

The cool Ice Cream Sandwich OS is now the hottest option for all the smartphones. Phones that have already received the ICS update are Samsung Galaxy S2, Galaxy Nexus, HTC Vivid and other waiting in the line are Motorola Razr, Samsung Galaxy Note, Sony Experia phones and some LG smartphones

Shares of AOL (NYSE: AOL), the seventh most-visited website, have gained nearly 7 percent this week after the company said a patent sale is an option to increase shareholder value.

Basho, a four-year-old startup, is challenging giants like Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) and EMC (NYSE: EMC) in the database market as well as new products for the Cloud, or Internet-based computing.

Google’s current version of Android – Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich – has already brought in a huge amount of fresh functionality and features that have been obtained by combining the features of Android Honeycomb and Gingerbread. However, a lot is expected from the next version of Android, Jelly Bean, and very little is known about it.

The U.S. Department of the Interior announced Wednesday it is getting ready to open parts of the Atlantic coast to surveys that could lead to drilling for oil and natural gas, but the biggest industry group is not satisfied

Dubai lender Emirates NBD will merge the management teams of its two Islamic subsidiaries, which will be led by Jamal bin Ghalaita, the bank said in a statement on Wednesday.

Sports Illustrated's Peter King says Bill Parcells is very interested in coaching the Saints

The Los Angeles Dodgers have a new owner, and that's great news for the fans and Major League Baseball.

Gold-Ore Resources Ltd. said Wednesday it was increasing the underground reserves at its Bjorkdal gold mine in Sweden by 210 percent.

The government is willing to share some of its airwaves with wireless service providers to help them meet increasing demand for services such as mobile Web surfing.

The bodies of a man and a woman have been discovered in one of the 16 homes that were completely destroyed by a horrendous wildfire that forced hundreds to leave their towns and flee to mountainous areas near Denver. Now, authorities say third person is missing from the same area as the other bodies.

Many banks still do not have enough teeth to tackle fraud, which costs Asia around $1 billion a year, but social media could be a game changer due to the reputational risk, said a top official from business software firm Progress Software Corp (PRGS.O).