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Best Buy earnings slump on turnaround costs, Super Bowl shift

2013-05-21 08:00:00

Best Buy Co. reported a net loss and sliding sales for its first quarter, weakness that the electronics retailer blamed on the costs of its ongoing turnaround and calendar shifts that affected the key Super Bowl selling day. Investors sent Best Buy...

AT&T's unlimited-data users to get FaceTime over cellular network

2013-05-21 08:33:00

AT&T has kept its unlimited-data iPhone users from making FaceTime calls over its cellular network for eight months, but that could change in just a few weeks. The Texas-based carrier on Tuesday announced it will give software and smartphone makers...

Shakespeare's sonnets get a new iPad, iPhone app

2013-05-20 13:20:00

William Shakespeare is believed to have written 154 sonnets during his life. Carrying around the complete volume has never been physically burdensome since each poem is a mere 14 lines. But a new application for the Apple iPad and iPhone is seeking to...

Gluten-free: More new products than ever

2013-05-20 09:14:00

A few decades ago, gluten-free products mostly meant rice cakes. Today, the category just won’t quit. Even industry analysts have been surprised at the strength of the gluten-free claim, said Tom Vierhile, innovation insights director at...

Virgin America lets you buy other passengers drinks, make pals

2013-05-19 12:00:00

Virgin America is making it easier to befriend other passengers at 35,000 feet. The Burlingame, Calif.-based airline’s touch-screen entertainment units on every seat now have a feature that lets passengers buy drinks, meals and snacks for fellow...

Workout clothes that work outside the gym too

2013-05-19 00:00:00

Tracy Anderson Given all the buzz last month around the opening of fitness guru Tracy Anderson's flagship super-studio in Brentwood — a partnership with Gwyneth Paltrow, who is Exhibit A for Anderson's handiwork — it comes as no surprise...

Many fliers willing to pony up for better seats, poll finds

2013-05-20 00:00:00

Most of us will put up with a cramped middle seat on a short flight. But on trips more than three hours long, we are ready to crack open our wallets and pay for a window or aisle seat. That is one of the findings of a recent Harris Interactive poll of...

Going gluten-free more common, but not necessarily easier

2013-05-18 00:00:00

For more than 20 years, Kristine Kidd tasted what came her way as the food editor at Bon Appetit magazine. But she never felt great. "I had digestive issues my whole life," she says, but 21/2 years ago, the aching joints, bloating, fatigue and digestive...

Apron maker finds profitable recipe catering to chefs

2013-05-18 00:00:00

Ellen Bennett launched an apron company last year not knowing how to sew and not knowing how to run a business. Now she has the world, so to speak, by the strings. "There was just the idea," says the diminutive, consistently buoyant 25-year-old who also...

Apple reaches 50 billionth app download with Google on its tail

2013-05-16 14:09:00

It has been five years since Apple's App Store launched, and on Wednesday, the digital store reached a new milestone: 50 billion app downloads. The Cupertino tech company celebrated the occasion by rewarding the person who downloaded the 50 billionth...

Google aims to be your personal cartographer to extend maps lead

2013-05-16 11:04:00

SAN FRANCISCO -- With its three-dimensional satellite imagery of the planet, its block-by-block detail of neighborhoods and its ubiquitous driving directions, Google is already the king of online cartography. Now it's looking to lengthen its significant...

Live from Google I/O: Internet giant unveils newest products

2013-05-15 08:48:00

SAN FRANCISCO -- Google is holding its annual conference for software developers in San Francisco. The first of the 6,000 developers attending Google I/O began lining up at 4 a.m. PDT The Internet giant is expected to unveil new products including a new...

Burberry made a strong showing in London with tiered peplum trench coats, tailored bomber jackets, bellow pocket pencil skirts, animal-print T-shirts and flared riding skirts. Now get the Burberry smell with the new Body Mist.

2013-05-02 00:00:00

Cars.com has appointed Barbara Mousigian vice president of product. She will oversee the development and launch of new products while also guiding enhancements to Cars.com�s existing properties.

2013-04-22 11:31:00

Apple's Siri feature is available on the iPhone and other Apple devices.

2013-04-19 07:58:20