| Apple's iPhone business alone now bigger than whole of Microsoft Apple's iPhone business alone is now bigger than the whole of Microsoft, recent revenue figures have revealed.
The tech giant's popular smartphone division generated 24.4 billion dollars of revenue... | |
| US economy improving, stronger jobs growth: Expert Charles Schwab Chief Investment Strategist Liz Ann Sonders believes that the American economy is improving, and the potential for giving jobs to the unemployed is getting stronger.
"Its pretty close... |
| Looking for work? There may be an app for that SAN FRANCISCO -; Looking for a promising career in a lousy economy? A new study suggests you're apt to find it in apps - the services and tools built to run on smartphones, computer tablets and... |
| Workers enter faulty reactor, prepare inspection A reactor at the San Onofre nuclear plant has cooled down enough for workers to install inspection equipment Monday that may help find a leak among generator steam tubes.Heat transfer tubes are under... |
| Food trucks lack letter grades Meet San Diego's food trucks The explosion of San Diego's gourmet food trucks, serving everything from seared ahi and grass-fed sliders to New England lobster rolls, has brought them a... |
| Is J.C.Penney a Target wannabe? JCPenney's "rebranded" stores were unveiled Wednesday, including the one in Westfield Plaza Bonita in National City, shown here. The department store has a redesigned logo and... |
| SDG&E entered eagle ''no-fly'' zone Jacob letter regarding eagle no-fly zones San Diego Gas & Electric helicopters building the Sunrise Powerlink have committed three more violations of the "no-fly" zones set up to... |
| Humana, Skechers, Sysco are market movers NEW YORK -; Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Monday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE Humana Inc., down $4.87 at $85.25 The health insurer said... |
| Wal-Mart debuts 'Great for You' seal NEW YORK -- You may like the food you buy, but is it "Great for You"?Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to help its customers figure that out by adding a new green icon that reads "Great for... |
| More than 40 states agree to foreclosure deal WASHINGTON -- More than 40 U.S. states have agreed to a nationwide settlement over foreclosure abuses.The deal would force the five largest mortgage lenders to reduce loans for about 1 million... |
| China to publish sensitive wealth gap data BEIJING -- Chinese state media say the government plans to conduct a nationwide income survey to help it calculate a politically sensitive measure of wealth inequality.The China Daily newspaper on... |
| Lee Enterprises seeks OK for reverse stock split DAVENPORT, Iowa -- Newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises Inc. is seeking shareholder approval for a reverse stock split that would combine as many as five shares into one.The company outlined the... |
| How the major stock indexes fared on Monday Stock indexes closed slightly lower Monday as talks dragged on between Greek political leaders over a package of spending cuts and other measures required for the country to get more bailout... |
| Yum Brands posts 30 percent 4th-qtr profit rise File - This Nov. 22, 2011 file photo provided by Yum Brands, shows the Pizza Hut Big Dinner filled with two medium rectangular one-topping pizzas, eight wings and five breadsticks. Yum Brands... |
| Ad Agency Behind Clint Eastwood Chrysler Superbowl Ad Also Did Simpsons Coca-Cola Spot shaking their heads . I thought it was a pretty good spot as far as these things go, though I prefer Eastwood’s longer directorial stuff for obvious reasons. Here’s the... |
| Tax Trivia Giveaway #7: Bank Secrecy Act or the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act), which included cash reporting requirements and FBAR (Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts) rules, in 1970 as the first laws to fight... |
| Where YouTube Sensation Cody Paul Is Playing College Football I avoided joining the orgy of coverage for National Signing Day, which is most notable not for the superstar high schoolers committing to play at the biggest football schools, but for... |
| Victor Cruz "Salsaing" All The Way To IMG Image by Getty Images via @daylife Word came yesterday that breakout NFL star Victor Cruz has signed with agency giant IMG Worldwide to negotiate marketing and endorsement agreements. "They have... |
| Super Bowl XLVI's Real Winner? Indianapolis! The site of this year's Super Bowl was within walking distance of many hotels and all of downtown Indy. Sunday's Super Bowl was the most watched television event in American history, tuned... |
| Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen: most generous living donor Paul Allen was the third most generous donor in America last year, and the most generous one still alive. This is Allen's 10th year on the list. Only two donors have made the list more times:... |
| Top Congressional stock picks: Microsoft beats Apple Follow this company . Stock ownership by members of Congress has been an issue recently after several media reports that were critical of what some viewed as politicians capitalizing on... |
| Ron Paul Warns Of Federal Reserve Power Grab February 6, 2012 Not only was Obama's appointment of Richard Cordray to the misnamed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) unconstitutional, but the newly minted federal leviathan itself... |
| Michael Molinski's Emerging Latin America: Latin currencies strong, but there’s a downside SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Latin American currencies are on fire across the region. The Colombian peso, the Mexican peso and the Brazilian real are some of the strongest global currencies against... |
| David Weidner's Writing on the Wall: 3 things Europe could learn from the Yanks All of these complaints are part of a strategy. Bankers want to scare the bejeezus out of European leaders, businesses and people. If the banks go under, so will Europe, the European Union, the... |
| Paul B. Farrell: Doomsday Capitalists’ winning strategy SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- Doomsday Capitalists know how to get rich by playing the short-term stock market and ignoring long-term warnings of a global economic collapse. How? They have... |
| Therese Poletti's Tech Tales: Are daredevil CEOs worth risk? Micron thought so SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The death of Micron Technology Inc. Chief Executive Steve Appleton in a plane crash last Friday cast a pall over the chip maker and the semiconductor industry, while... |
| Asia Markets: Asia markets mostly lower, as China slides SYDNEY (MarketWatch) -- Asian markets traded mostly lower on Tuesday, with a sharp fall for Chinese shares in the absence of more policy easing measures, while a surprise move by Australia's... |
| Metals Stocks: Gold, copper slip further on dollar strength HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Prices of gold and other metals extended losses in electronic trading Tuesday, as the U.S. dollar's strength and a sharp fall in Chinese stocks fueled a further... |
| Futures Movers: Crude-oil futures edge higher in Asia SYDNEY (MarketWatch) -- Nymex light, sweet crude-oil futures edged higher in electronic trading hours in Asia on Tuesday, paring losses from the previous session although the wide spread between... |
| Caixin Online: Reviving hope in Deng’s legacy of China reform Caixin Online ) -- Twenty years ago, an 88-year-old Deng Xiaoping embarked on a whistle-stop tour of southeast China. He spoke in Shanghai, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Zhuhai and other cities to set the tone... |
| Microsoft Windows 8 to Kill Familiar Start Button Microsoft Windows users have relied on the familar start button to find all their programs and documents. When Windows 8 launches, maybe by the end of... |
| Google's HUD glasses have been sighted (Credit: Oakley) But, it's not just how Google's glasses look, their function also mirrors something out of the Terminator trilogy. In... |
| Hackers wanted $50,000 to keep Symantec source code private Symantec told a hacker group that it would pay $50,000 to keep the source code for some of the company's flagship security products off the Internet, the company confirmed to CNET this evening. ... |
| Nikon woos the pros with long-awaited D800 (Credit: Nikon USA) Because of its lack of video capabilities and its relatively low resolution, the Nikon D700 never attained the level of buzz the Canon EOS 5D Mark II did, despite being an... |
| Brazil sues Twitter users over speed trap and traffic tweets (Credit: Screenshot by CNET) Today, the attorney general of Brazil filed a preliminary injunction to block tweets and suspend the accounts of Twitter users who use the social-networking site to... |
| Can Amazon replicate Apple's brick-and-mortar success? (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) There's been some chatter lately about Amazon opening its own stores out in the non-cyber world. Yes, we're talking physical, brick-and-mortar stores, the... |
| Samsung reduces its LTE chip cost by half For every new iteration of mobile phones, it's easy to assume that products are getting pricier because the insides are getting just as... |
| Copyright defendant: Porn may be, um, unprotected Some say that pornography lacks originality. And yet I find myself uplifted by the originality of an argument presented by a woman accused--wrongly, she insists--of illegally downloading the porn... |
| RunCore Pro V Max review: If only the price were right CES 2012 as one of its first standard SSDs for the U.S. market. However, the company is not a new SSD vendor. In fact it describes itself as a major vendor that has been offering SSD storage... |
| Analyst: Apple's 'lifetime' customers locked in and lovin' it (Credit: Josh Lowensohn/CNET) Those who buy Apple products, keep on buying them and show few signs of stopping, a new analyst report suggests. In a research note sent out to investors today,... |
| Microsoft Opens C++ Extension for Other Compilers IDG News Service - Microsoft has opened its C++ AMP specification so it can also be used by non-Microsoft compilers to harness the power of GPUs (graphics processing units). "What we see is... |
| Microsoft Store coming next to Apple's at Stanford Shopping Center Follow this company in San Jose. The store has been under renovation for some time but posters went up in the past week announcing that it will be a Microsoft store. The San Jose store... |
| Microsoft removes start button in Windows 8 Say goodbye to the Windows start button. Microsoft has gotten rid of it from the latest build of Windows 8. Hitting the Web over the weekend, screenshots of the new Windows 8 build display the... |
