SSI clarification

Nokia town faces future dim as jobs shift to Asia

Hiring binge stalls for jobs

Borrowing up but consumers resist credit cards

Wendy's paid CEO $4.6M for last quarter of 2011

Palo Alto Networks files documents for $175M IPO

PALO ALTO . (AP) - Computer security provider Palo Alto Networks Inc. is eyeing taking the company public in an offering that aims to raise as much as $175 million. In preliminary documents filed by the company on Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Palo Alto said it intends to use proceeds from an initial public offering to fund working capital, ...

Calif. Passover diners get the word: No Coke

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Coca-Cola may be off the menu for the Passover feast - at least in California. As millions of Jews celebrate the Biblical story of the exodus from Egypt on Friday night, Coke says it's been forced out of California by state laws on toxic chemicals. Coke directed its suppliers last year to change the ...

Business nation briefs

Bravo plans 'Silicon Valley' reality show NEW YORK (AP) - Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of Facebook's founder, is working with Bravo on a TV show about Silicon Valley. Bravo says "Silicon Valley" is a working title for the show, which follows young professionals in real life working to create the next big thing in tech. Going by ...

Penney cuts 600 workers, 13 percent of HQ staff

Yahoo CEO tries to reassure workers after layoffs

SUNNYVALE (AP) - Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson plans to tell the struggling Internet company's employees more about his turnaround strategy next week. Thompson also sought to boost sagging employee morale in a staff memo Thursday. It came a day after Yahoo Inc. began laying off 2,000 workers in the biggest purge in the company's 17-year history. The 14 ...

Ross Stores boosts 1Q profit, March sales rise

PLEASANTON (AP) - Clothing retailer Ross Stores Inc. says that mild weather helped drive March sales in stores open at least a year up 10 percent, and it's raising its forecast of first-quarter profit. The company said Thursday that after better-than-expected sales in February and March, it expected to earn between 89 cents and 91 cents per share in the quarter ending ...

Google creates a spectacle with Internet-connected glasses project

Retailers report positive March

Is this the end of the gold rush?

Ham prices high heading into Easter holiday

Both sides can’t be right

A year after IPO, Facebook aims to be ad colossus

MENLO PARK (AP) - It was supposed to be our IPO, the people's public offering.

Report: Yahoo nearing $1.1B purchase of Tumblr

'Sonic' video games coming to Nintendo

J.C. Penney posts bigger 1Q loss than expected for 1st Q

Wal-Mart's 1Q profit, sales disappoint

Tablets in the classroom push learning

Venezuelans scrambling to find scarce toilet paper; nation importing 50M rolls

Apple says App Store hit 50 billion downloads

Google digs deeper into people's lives

Google boosts photo offerings to rival Facebook

Cisco 3Q net income rises 14 percent

Trade group slams safety pact for Bangladesh

Wells Fargo again ordered to settle overdraft case

Google CEO discloses 'rare' vocal cord issue