* Schwarzenegger sees possible compromise * Says budget talks moving fast (Refiles to insert dropped word "deficit" in 3rd paragraph) SAN FRANCISCO, July 4 (Reuters) - Governor ArnoldSchwarzenegger, optimistic California can finish its budgetnegotiations in a few days, is willing to reconsider ...Read More
MELBOURNE, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Two conjoined twins separated in a 32-hour operation in Australia appear to be making a good recovery, the woman who has been caring for them says. Guardian Moira Kelly said the girls, Trishna and Krishna, who ...Read More
It ended yesterday afternoon for Boston College not with a bang or a whimper but with a fourth-quarter interception, the fourth and final thrown by Eagles quarterback Dave Shinskie. One play later, North Carolina running back Ryan Houston slid into the ...Read More
Twitter COO Dick Costolo is on-stage at the Real-Time CrunchUp in San Francisco. I'm taking some notes as we go.
The big takeaways are that Twitter is making more than $4 million a year, but won't specify how much and that's ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc has won a seat at the smartphone table. Two years after the Web search leader announced its plan to barge into the market, a dozen phones are using Google's Android mobile operating software, including Motorola ...Read More
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Twitter Inc., the social-networkingcompany valued at $1 billion by venture capitalists, isgenerating sales of more than $4 million a year. The revenue comes from companies that pay to use Twitterdata, Chief Operating Officer Dick Costolo said today ...Read More
Black Friday is my favorite day of the year--not just because retailers and manufacturers are falling over each other to try to nab my holiday dollars, but because the rush at the big-box stores is hilariously insane.
Working at a Best ...Read More
Father-of-four Pc Barker, a traffic officer with Cumbria Police, was due to celebrate his 45th birthday tomorrow but instead, his family are coming to terms with the possibility that he may be dead.
Yesterday, his senior officer paid tribute to him, ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO -- This city did not wait for Washington's health care overhaul. Most uninsured adults here are already reaping the benefits of a government-run health care program - seeing doctors, filling prescriptions, and getting surgeries they could not otherwise ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO -- Dell Inc. says its latest quarterly profit dropped 54 percent as the company battles a slump has caused it to lose its ranking as the world's No. 2 personal computer maker. Rivals Hewlett-Packard Co. and Acer Inc. have ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO—A key element of Dell Inc.'s turnaround strategy has been a vow not to cut prices as aggressively as rivals just to keep market share. The tactic has allowed competitors such as Acer Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. to steal ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO -The struggling Internet company AOL plans to shed up to 2,500 jobs — more than a third of its work force — as it prepares to separate from Time Warner and finally sever their ill-fated marriage. Major job cuts ...Read More
Twitter has implemented a small change today, which by comparison to Retweets and UI redesigns isn't such a huge deal but it's definitely worth mention. Twitter's prompting question above the box from which you Tweet from has been "What are ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The struggling Internet company AOL plans to shed up to 2,500 jobs - more than a third of its work force - as it prepares to separate from Time Warner and finally sever their ill-fated marriage.
Major ...Read More
AOL, which has already told investors that it will spend up to $200 million firing a good chunk of its staff, has now told its employees. It is looking for "up to 2,500 volunteers," CEO Tim Armstrong told his staff ...Read More
Somewhere in Massachusetts this week, the state's millionth dose of swine flu vaccine should arrive. Public health authorities said yesterday that, with the latest allotment of shots and spray Tuesday, the state had received or ordered 1,020,000 doses of vaccine to ...Read More
Marcus Bebb-Jones, 46, killed his wife then used her credit cards to lead a "playboy lifestyle" in Las Vegas, an extradition court heard.
Since then he has reinvented himself as one of this country's top professional poker players, winning hundreds of ...Read More
* Lets companies build internal social networks * Aiming at competing products from IBM, Microsoft * Can pull information from Facebook, Twitter (Adds comments from CEO, details on product) SAN FRANCISCO/BOSTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Salesforce.com Inc(CRM.N) introduced am internal collaboration tool for businessesthat ...Read More
Reporting from Washington - Contained in the nearly 2,000-page House healthcare bill is a little-noticed provision -- worth $300 million to California -- that would increase federal Medicare payments to doctors in a wide swath of the state in response ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — For hundreds of hardcore “Twilight” fans who stood in line for hours at this year’s Comic-Con, pining for a peek at their heroes, the choice was simple: Team Edward or Team Jacob. Last year, it was Robert Pattinson ...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Sony Corp said on Wednesday that early demand for its latest electronic reader was higher than expected in advance of the holidays and shipment delays could result. A Sony spokesman said the $399 e-book reader, called the ...Read More
