On Friday, Google executives, including executive chairman Eric Schmidt, visited Yoani Sánchez, an award-winning blogger and the creator of 14ymedio, Cuba's first independently owned newspaper in five decades.
A United Airlines flight headed to Southern California from Chicago was forced to land in Kansas on Sunday after an emergency slide inflated inside the cabin.
Governor signs bill that clears away state-level roadblocks to alternative currencies. Californians can now use bitcoin -- or any other alternative currencies -- in official transactions, after Gov.
Dow ticks up slightly, and Nike rises after quarterly results beat expectations. Stocks ended the week in positive territory, eliminating the weekly loss for the Dow Jones industrial average thanks in part to Nike reporting better-than-expected quarterly results.
Amazon continues to grow larger and faster, but how big will the company get? The online retailer's growth has been at an exceptional pace within the last 20 years, making some people excited but others nervous.
AT&T has agreed to sell its holdings in Mexican telecommunications company América Móvil to Carlos Slim's holding company Inmobiliaria Carso in a move that sets up the Dallas-based wireless operator to acquire DirecTV.
Latest iPhone slashed in price by Wal-Mart To encourage buyers to upgrade their devices before Apple announces new products, Wal-Mart and Apple are slashing prices on iPhones and iPods.
Hillary Clinton's memoir, "Hard Choices," is not available in China because Chinese publishers have put an "effective ban" on it, Simon & Schuster executives said.
Luxury automakers have agreed to build cars in plant near Guadalajara. Daimler and Nissan on Thursday completed a joint venture deal to build Mercedes and Infiniti cars in Mexico, sources close to the deal have told Reuters.
A merger between Sprint and T-Mobile would benefit customers, Sprint Chief Executive Officer Dan Hesse recently said in an interview with CNET, by providing a stronger third competitor that can provide coverage options different from AT&T or Verizon.
Alibaba, the Chinese Internet commerce giant coming to U.S. markets soon in the form of an initial public offering, just unveiled which exchange the much-anticipated stock will trade on. The New York Stock Exchange won the big name in yet another step toward a huge IPO.
Takata airbags are blamed for another recall. General Motors is set to recall 33,000 Chevy Cruze cars from the model years of 2013-2014 because of potentially defective airbags.
Highly acclaimed designers Pharrell Williams, Roberto Cavalli, Missoni, and Rick Owens have redesigned the official soccer balls from FIFA World Cup 2014 to raise money for a good cause.
Following in T-Mobile's footsteps, Sprint announced earlier this week that it would also be offering a 30-day trial period for customers to try out its faster network, highlighting the aggressive mentality of the underdogs in the U.S. wireless industry.
The company's average wage in the U.S. expected to be $3.51 higher than federal minimum IKEA is the latest retailer to up its company-wide minimum wage for U.
Google Glass will be built into stylish Net-A-Porter eyewear. Google is making some improvements and updates to its Google Glass eyewear, including more RAM, easier photography and introducing a third party eyewear company to include Google Glass in their product offerings.
