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Airline introduces pay-by-weight pricing
PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (AP) - A tiny Samoa airline is offering a new reason to drop extra weight before your next trip: Tickets sold not by the seat, but by kilogram.
Apple to release updated phone this summer
CUPERTINO (AP) - Apple is set for a possible summer launch of the next iPhone, rather than a fall launch like the last two models, according to a report Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal.
SEC gives OK for companies to use social media
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Securities and Exchange Commission will allow public companies to make significant announcements on Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites provided they alert investors which sites they intend to use.
Dan Porter, head of OMGPop, leaving Zynga
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Dan Porter is leaving Zynga a year after the online game maker bought his company, OMGPop, for $183 million.
Is Facebook losing its edge?
NEW YORK (AP) - To see what Facebook has become, look no further than the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer.
Airline introduces pay-by-weight pricing
PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (AP) - A tiny Samoa airline is offering a new reason to drop extra weight before your next trip: Tickets sold not by the seat, but by kilogram.
Safeway CEO's pay dips slightly as bonus falls
PLEASANTON (AP) - Safeway CEO Steve Burd took a slight pay cut in 2012 as the grocery store operator cut his performance-based bonus.
Medicare Advantage funding changes soften
NEW YORK (AP) - Medicare Advantage customers may not see the drastic benefit cuts or premium hikes next year that insurers have been warning about after all.
Pizza Hut rolls out pie with 'cheese pockets' with more fat & calories
NEW YORK (AP) - Pizza Hut has found a way to get more cheese into American diets - a pizza crust made of little cheese-stuffed bread bowls.
Is home where the profit is for JCP?
NEW YORK (AP) - J.C. Penney is honing in on its home department as part of a bigger plan to turn its stores into mini-malls of sorts.
TSA fires 3, suspends 23 at Newark airport
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Twenty-six baggage screeners at Newark Liberty Airport were fired or suspended recently as part of an investigation into lax security procedures, the Transportation Security Administration said Friday.
Cleaner gas rule would mean higher price at pump
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration's newest anti-pollution plan would ping American drivers where they wince the most: at the gas pump. That makes arguments weighing the cost against the health benefits politically potent.
Same-sex marriage and Social Security
As I am writing this, the Supreme Court is hearing two cases involving the controversial topic of same sex marriage. This is an issue I have discussed before in this column, obviously with respect to how it might impact Social Security. I decided to resurrect that column and reprint it here because the subject is so timely.
FDA OKs first-of-its-kind diabetes drug from J&J
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a first-of-its-kind diabetes drug from Johnson & Johnson that uses a new method to lower blood sugar - flushing it out in patients' urine.
UPS pays $40M to end online pharmacies probe
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Shipping company UPS has agreed to pay $40 million to end a federal criminal probe connected to its work for online pharmacies.
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Twitter founder unveils search app
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Twitter co-founder Biz Stone hopes to demonstrate that a picture can be worth even more than 140 characters of text.
Mulally staying at Ford, not leaving for Microsoft
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) - Alan Mulally is staying at Ford.
Your next TV: Will it be Ultra HD?
LAS VEGAS (AP) - After attempts to hawk 3-D and OLED TVs fizzled in recent years, television manufacturers are taking small steps toward making a new technology, Ultra HD, more viable for mainstream consumers.
TV-on-Internet service Aereo gets $34M in funding
NEW YORK (AP) - Aereo, a Barry Diller-backed startup that provides broadcast television channels over the Internet for a monthly fee, said Tuesday that it has secured $34 million in additional funding from outside investors.
People spent $10B on apps during 2013
CUPERTINO ( AP) - Apple says people spent more than $10 billion in its app store last year, on apps such as "Minecraft," ''Angry Birds Star Wars" and "Sleep Cycle" alarm clock.
Apple’s iBeacon now in grocery stores
Apple's iBeacon now in grocery stores
Samsung teams up with Comcast for ultra-HD movies
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest maker of TVs, said Monday that it is tackling the problem of getting ultra-high-definition content to its new TV sets by teaming up with the Internet streaming services of Comcast, Netflix and Amazon.
Dish Hopper set-up can record 8 shows at once
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Dish Network Corp. has unveiled a new digital recorder system that can record eight TV shows at once and can be controlled by voice.
Sony to sell waterproof phone through T-Mobile
NEW YORK (AP) - Sony has unveiled a waterproof smartphone that sports a 21 megapixel camera and expands what users can do with it underwater.
Toyota rolling out hydrogen-powered car first in California
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Toyota said Monday that it expects to sell more hydrogen-powered electric cars in the U.S. than previously planned.
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