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Bang & Olufsen is well known for making high-end speakers with design as good as their sound. The company may be most familiar to many consumers as the provider of in-car systems for luxury automotive manufacturers, incl...

Margaret Dean, director of production for Mattel’s Playground Productions and Kristy Scanlon, VP of business development, animation and games at Technicolor have been tapped as co-presidents of the newly restructured W...

Some inventions address needs that everyone has and go on to change the world. The Internet serves our constant craving for information; the internal combustion engine let anyone efficiently do mechanical work with littl...

Few companies can play kingmaker as Apple can. As the owner of the App Store and host to some of the most closely-followed press events in the industry, Apple has the ability to shape the fortunes of companies by decidin...

Each day brings fresh confirmation that giving away any information means you’re giving all of it away, thanks to algorithms that crunch your language use, purchasing habits, friend structure and other bits of informat...

The global financial information group Thomson Reuters said Tuesday it would cut some 4,500 jobs in its finance operations by the end of 2014 after reporting a drop in profits. The cuts, outlined in documents accompanyin...

(Phys.org) --Edith Cowan University researchers have drawn on their expertise in nanotechnology to update the humble pH sensor, replacing traditional glass electrode devices that have been in use since the 1930s with a n...

EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) -- The family of a murder victim has demanded an apology from a San Diego Superior Court judge who performed a wedding for the killer minutes after sentencing him to a lifetime in prison.     

Tiger Woods will be moving on from a relationship that lasted about 15 years. The world's No. 1 golfer and video game publisher EA Sports are parting aways after more than a decade partnering on the "Tiger Woods PGA Tour...

As the economy continues to recover the millions of jobs lost during the Great Recession, a big reason for the comeback has been the tremendous growth of small business owners and self employment over the past five years...

Stocks are higher as the Federal Reserve begins a two-day meeting where policymakers are expected to extend an aggressive economic stimulus program.

B&O has unveiled its first wireless speaker range that uses its new wireless standard at 5GHz for, it claims, the best sound available. We got a closer look and listen to decide if they are worth the hefty price tags. Be...

Since the financial crisis, European cities in stronger nations — like Poland, Turkey, and Germany — have seen significant growth, while cities in beleaguered countries like Greece and Italy have remained stagnant. "...

William C. Lowe, the man who led the project that launched the IBM PC, died on October 19th at the age of 72. The New York Times reports that in 1980, Lowe pitched the "improbable idea" to his employers of putting toge...

US defence official quoted as saying Ibrahim Ali died in reported military strike in Somalia's Middle Juba region.

SAO PAULO (AP) -- Police in Brazil's biggest city say they've detained around 90 people amid violent demonstrations over the police killing of a 17-year-old.     

We are in desperate need of documentary filmmakers at Fukushima. The Japanese government is about to pass a national censorship law clearly meant to make it impossible to know what's going on there.

Mechanics discover girl aged 15-23 months in car boot, with reports saying she may have been there since birth.

As more and more allegations that the United States has been surveilling foreign officials come to light, President Obama has sought to distance himself and his administration from the activity by claiming they knew litt...

Five dead after civilian "self-defence" groups protest against stranglehold of Knights Templar on northern state.

Japan's defence minister says China's intrusions in East China Sea islands could lead to "emergency situation".

Twitter just got a visual makeover. The social media company today announced that photos and Vine videos will begin showing up automatically in users' timelines. It may seem like a small change, but the sprinkling of pho...