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Americans Win Nobel Prize in Medicine
Two Americans and a German-American won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering how key substances are transported within cells, a process involved in such important activities as brain cell communication and the release of in...
Mark Cuban says he won't be bullied by SEC
Mark Cuban says he learned he was being sued for insider trading when he turned on CNBC one day "and I was the headline." The billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner told jurors in federal court Monday that the news made him "sick to my stomach." Cuban testified that he could ...
Twitter tunes in to TV partnerships ahead of IPO
People don't just watch TV anymore; they talk about it on Twitter. From the comfort of couches, they share reactions to touchdowns and nail-biting season finales — and advertisers and networks are taking note. Examples of Twitter's influence abound. The recent finale of "Breaking Bad" generated a record 1.24 million ...
Former Google CEO to co-write management book
Now that he is no longer Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt evidently has a lot more time to write books. After releasing a technology treatise about his vision of the future in an Internet-connected world, Schmidt will share some of the management tips that he learned while running Google Inc. for ...
Experiment Helps Infertile Woman Give Birth
Researchers at Stanford University say a 30-year-old infertile woman gave birth after surgeons removed her ovaries and re-implanted tissue they treated in a lab. The technique is still in the early, experimental stages. (Oct. 7)
Blackberry shares up on report of buyout interest
Shares of BlackBerry Ltd. rose more than 4 percent Monday on a report that the company is in sale talks with a handful of companies. Reuters reported Friday that the struggling smartphone maker was holding discussions with Cisco, Google and SAP about a possible sale of all or part of ...
Research Maps Out Newborn Genetic Futures
Newborns are having their DNA decoded at select research facilities and hospitals around the country, for scientists to analyze the their genetic futures. But do parents really want to know everything? (Oct. 7)
LA students get iPads, crack firewall, play games
Education officials in the nation's second-largest school district are working to reboot a $1 billion plan to put an iPad in the hands of each of their 650,000 students after an embarrassing glitch emerged when the first round of tablets went out. Instead of solving math problems or doing English ...
You say Twitter, I say Tweeter: Investor mix-up?
A bankrupt electronics retailer appears to have gotten caught up in the investor fervor for Twitter. Shares of Tweeter Home Entertainment Group Inc. rose as high as 15 cents Friday. That's up 1,400 percent from Thursday's closing price of 1 cent. And trading volume skyrocketed to 14.4 million shares. Over ...
Twitter dishes tantalizing tidbits in IPO treatise
Twitter, a privately held company built on blurbs, has finally laid itself bare in documents that read more like a treatise than a tweet. The roughly 800-page filing Twitter Inc. released late Thursday on its way to an eagerly anticipated IPO contains tantalizing tidbits about its growth and its attempts ...
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