Economy
Fed to start tapering bond purchases this year: Bernanke
The Federal Reserve maintains its $85 billion-a-month asset purchase program, but says it could begin scaling back later this year.
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Sony Corp. has given the world the first look at its new PlayStation 4 console, promising to combine its film, music, television and game strengths in a powerhouse home entertainment box. Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. President Andrew House on Monday touted the next-generation video game consoles as having been built ...
A Chinese university has built the world’s fastest supercomputer, almost doubling the speed of the U.S. machine that previously claimed ...
DreamWorks Animation will release new original shows exclusively on Netflix, under a deal announced Monday by the video service and ...
Some two-thirds of American parents monitor their children’s Facebook activities, but a large percentage say they trust their youngsters to manage on their own, a study showed Thursday. The survey by the Annenberg Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California ...
Tim and Chris Vanderhook think Myspace had it right — at one point. And they believe they’ve revived and improved that formula for success as the revamped first titan of social media debuts its latest incarnation. The Vanderhooks unveiled the new Myspace.com on June ...
For the European physicists who created the World Wide Web, preserving its history is as elusive as unlocking the mysteries of how the universe began. The scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) are searching for the first Web page. It was ...
An Israeli start-up says it has come up with a way to overcome language barriers when conducting international business: an automated service that provides quick translations between English and seven other languages over the telephone. Lexifone allows people to get translations without paying hundreds ...
Apple on Monday unveiled a long-expected Internet radio service called iTunes Radio and said it will personalize listeners’ music based on what they’ve listened to and what they’ve purchased on iTunes. Apple said iTunes Radio will be available this year in the U.S. It ...
Apple is throwing out most of the real-world graphical cues from its iPhone and iPad software in what it calls the biggest update since the launch of iPhone in 2007. The new operating system, called iOS 7, strives for a clean, simple, translucent look. ...
Reports that Apple is starting a new music-streaming service sent Pandora’s stock price tumbling Monday and sparked talk that the tech giant may be regaining its footing after several difficult months. But experts say there is at least one potential obstacle ahead for the ...
The makers of a porn app for Google’s Internet-linked eyewear were modifying the software Tuesday in response to a move by the company to keep sex off the new devices. Google evidently updated its Glass developer rules over the weekend, ahead of the release ...
Samsung won a round in its long-running patent battle with Apple on Tuesday when a U.S. trade panel banned the import and sale of some older models of the iPhone and iPad. The quasi-judicial International Trade Commission said it issued a “limited exclusion order” ...
Invisalign, a San Jose company, uses 3-D printing to make each mouthful of customized, transparent braces. Mackenzies Chocolates, a confectioner in Santa Cruz, uses a 3-D printer to pump out chocolate molds. And earlier this year, Cornell University researchers used a 3-D printer, along ...
While Google prepares to release eyewear that provides a window to the Web, a startup on the edge of its campus is readying glasses that overlay the Internet on the world in 3-D. Atheer Labs on Thursday provided the first public look at prototype ...
Microsoft is trying to fix what it got wrong with its radical makeover of Windows. It is making the operating system easier to navigate and enabling users to set up the software so it starts in a more familiar format. The revisions to Windows ...