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It was an exciting year for tech in Silicon Valley, so we've decided to highlight a few women who we think have had particularly awesome achievements. They've created interesting startups, snagged new positions at great ...

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Hours after Turkey's prime minister vowed to "eradicate" Twitter, Turkish Internet users began to experience widespread disruptions Thursday while trying to access the popular social networking website.

Certified coffee, sometimes known as "sustainable" coffee, has a long way to go before it becomes a dominant industry norm, despite significant efforts by leading coffee companies and certifiers. Companies like Starbucks...

Starbucks will expand its evening alcohol and light bites menu, which includes bacon-wrapped dates and Malbec wine, to thousands of stores, Chief Operating Officer Troy Alstead said in a phone…

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Microsoft Corp., which has skewered rival Google Inc. for going through customer emails to deliver ads, acknowledged Thursday it had searched emails in a blogger's Hotmail account to track down who wa...

NEW YORK -- Digital discount broker E*Trade Financial Corp on Thursday bid farewell to the precocious baby who starred in the television commercials advertising its trading platform for the last seven years.     

Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In" has sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide and her organization of the same name is now stirring up more controversy about the negative stereotypes women continue to face with its "Ban Bossy" ...

A few times a week, Mimoun Boutarrite makes the drive from Meknes to Ain Leuh, in Morocco's Ifrane provice. The drive takes him through the Atlas moutains and lush green fields that now support colorful fruit trees on la...

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The Arizona Senate gave final approval to a $9.2 billion spending plan for the coming budget year late Thursday, potentially setting the stage for an early close to the Legislature's 2014 session.

General Motors CEO Mary Barra is set to testify next month before a House of Representatives panel probing the delayed recall of 1.6 million cars with defective ignition switches that have been linked to a dozen deaths, ...

Ahead of the Tape: Call the retailer's share price an affordable luxury.

With new technology, the industry has been able to produce more power at lower cost by capturing the faster winds that blow at higher elevations.     

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory released a concept earlier this week for a new sunflower-shaped spaceship that will take actual photographs of planets outside our solar system. While scientists have been able to detec...

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Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Monday's session are First Solar, Hewlett-Packard, Symantec, and biotech names such as Alexion Pharmaceuticals.

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Phil Spencer says that Microsoft is learning and adapting as it fights the console war.     

When Cofounders Alex Sherman and Peter Schwartz left venture capital-backed digital advertising company MediaMath to found their own startup they wanted to do things differently.

Vicarious, a company that produces artificial-intelligence technology, has closed a fresh $40 million round of funding today that includes a handful of notable investors like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla found...