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Smart TV: The industry push to keep getting smarter

2013-05-17 08:00:00

For decades we've been watching TV. Now a new generation of televisions is beginning to watch us. Technological advances are giving the old clunky "boob tube" an I.Q. injection. Some of the new breed of smart TVs comes equipped with facial recognition...

Google Play marks subscription music service for internet giant

2013-05-16 04:00:00

Google Inc. upended the Internet with its search engine. It launched its own email service, made roads and highways easier to navigate, developed the world's most popular operating system for mobile devices and took a shot at Apple Inc.'s iTunes with...

On eve of Google developers conference, company 'hot again'

2013-05-14 00:00:00

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Even though its ubiquitous Internet search engine practically mints money, Google Inc. was widely seen as a company whose best days were behind it. It was written off as the next Microsoft Corp. — a staid high-tech...

Bieber vs. Beethoven; a new twist on battle rap

2013-05-13 07:00:00

Comedian Lloyd Ahlquist steps onto the stage, girded for battle. Wearing the uniform of a Soviet officer, with medals dripping from his chest, he channels dictator Joseph Stalin and prepares to deliver a rhyming smackdown on Russia's mad monk, Grigori...

The war for mobile messaging is on

2013-05-11 08:00:00

SAN FRANCISCO — WhatsApp is one of Silicon Valley's most buzzed-about companies, yet it actively avoids the spotlight, operating out of a small office in Mountain View, Calif., with no sign on the building entrance or on the office door. Unlike...

Silicon Valley is beginning to see 'delight' in a new light

2013-05-10 07:00:00

PALO ALTO — Ask Joshua Reeves about his online payroll service, and the last thing he'll want to discuss are its features and algorithms and software code and all that other cold jargon that usually comes pouring out of the mouths of Silicon...

Dow continues to sizzle, topping 15,000 for the first time

2013-05-07 19:40:00

� NEW YORK — Another day, another milestone on Wall Street. The red-hot Dow Jones industrial average barreled past 15,000 to close Tuesday at its highest point in history. It marked the 16th record close for the blue-chip index this year and...

Al Gore, with reported $200 million, almost as rich as Mitt Romney

2013-05-07 15:22:00

Al Gore and Mitt Romney have little in common -- except, perhaps, their net worth. Gore, the environmental activist and former U.S. vice president, has amassed a net worth that may exceed $200 million, according to an analysis by Bloomberg. That’s...

Fox veteran Peter Levinsohn named Universal Studios president

2013-05-01 20:01:00

Longtime digital media veteran Peter Levinsohn will join Universal Pictures as president and chief distribution officer, overseeing worldwide home entertainment, new media and digital strategy and international and domestic television distribution....

Developers dive in to create a wealth of autism apps

2013-04-30 05:00:00

At times, Andy Shih still finds himself overwhelmed by the groundswell of interest in autism apps he's seen in the three years since Apple Inc. released the first iPad. In his role as senior vice president for scientific affairs at Autism Speaks, a...

Barry Diller talks up Aereo on first day of Milken conference

2013-04-30 00:00:00

The three-day Milken Institute Global Conference kicked off Monday in Beverly Hills, with media moguls Barry Diller and Rupert Murdoch among the hundreds of business leaders and politicians slated to speak. The annual event, run by financier and...

J.C. Penney ousts CEO Ron Johnson, brings back his predecessor

2013-04-09 00:00:00

Ron Johnson was ousted as chief executive of J.C. Penney Co. after a remarkably short and gaffe-filled tenure that succeeded mainly in driving away customers. Johnson was lured 17 months ago from a top job at Apple Inc., where he was celebrated for...

The facade of an Apple store in San Francisco.

2013-04-19 00:00:00

Customers carry an Apple Inc. iMac computer in front of an Apple store in San Francisco

2013-04-19 00:00:00

Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak, perhaps better known as simply "Woz," will speak in Baltimore on Jan. 14, 2014.

2013-02-28 00:00:00