Thomas Edison

As Tesla taps capital markets for cash, share price could top $100

2013-05-17 10:25:00

Tesla Motors shares are trading at about $90 and could easily top $100, buoyed by its ability to tap capital markets for about $1 billion through its announced sale of stock and convertible notes. It is an impressive performance that will help the...

Fisker used political connections to get loan, U.S. lawmakers say

2013-04-24 16:26:00

WASHINGTON — Top executives from failed hybrid car maker Fisker Automotive Inc. denied claims in Congress that the company had used political connections to secure $192 million in government loans to finance a flawed business plan. The...

Resurrected Detroit Electric to introduce new sports car on April 3

2013-03-20 11:34:00

Detroit Electric, the most resilient and longest-lived brand of the nation's first electric car companies, has been resurrected and plans to introduce a new sports car in the Motor City on April 3. The company's first offering has been described by...

Review: 'Oz the Great and Powerful' a rough slog on the yellow brick road

2013-03-07 16:07:00

Sometimes sweet, sometimes scary, sometimes sour, "Oz the Great and Powerful" is a film that doesn't know its own mind. A partially effective jumble whose elements clash rather than cohere, this solid but not spectacular effort stubbornly refuses to catch...

Former Hilton executive named to head L.A. tourism board

2013-01-03 06:00:00

A former executive with Hilton Hotels Corp. has been named president and chief executive of the Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board. Ernest Wooden Jr., a former executive vice president for global brand management at Hilton, was named by the board...

Friday's TV Highlights: 'American Masters' on KOCE

2012-12-27 20:04:00

Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 23 - 29 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- SERIES Nikita: The action-drama starring Maggie Q encores its third-season premiere (8 p.m. KTLA). I Love the 1880s: The...

Transcript: Apple CEO Tim Cook interviewed by NBC's Brian Williams

2012-12-06 23:14:00

It felt a bit anti-climatic after a blistering day of Apple news courtesy of Chief Executive Tim Cook, including a lengthy interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, and lots of teasers from NBC in recent days. But tonight, finally, Cook's interview with NBC'...

'Pictures of Sound' resurrects sounds from centuries past

2012-12-22 08:00:00

The stated goal of the new combination book and compact disc "Pictures of Sound: One Thousand Years of Educed Audio: 980-1980" is impressively brash: "It's a collection that seeks to challenge existing assumptions about what historical audio itself is,"...

Four L.A. Unified schools to offer free flu clinics

2012-10-29 14:23:31

Stanford Ovshinsky dies at 89; inventor founded new field of electronics

2012-10-20 16:28:00

Stanford Ovshinsky was not a household name like Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein, but he was often compared to them, for good reason. He invented the nickel-metal hydride battery, which has powered high-tech items such as cellphones, laptop computers...

Destination America aims to bring us together, with bacon

2012-07-09 18:50:00

Tony's I-75 Restaurant in Birch Run, Mich., is proud home of what might well be the nation's largest BLT. Each sandwich contains a pound of bacon — about 25 to 30 deep-fried strips — stacked about 8 inches high between two slabs of white...

Library of Congress names new entries for National Recording Registry

2012-05-23 04:36:14

Thomas Edison Elementary School student Cathy Mohos works on a computer during 4th grade computer lab time at the Burbank school on Friday, February 15, 2013.

2013-02-15 15:05:00

Perhaps the greatest inventor ever, Thomas Edison creates the phonograph and makes the first recording ever. Later that same day he released a remix version of it featuring Bun B.

2012-08-10 14:37:00

Thomas Edison's time Elizabeth S, Fairbanks, AK, Age 11 State Winner

2012-05-02 08:19:00