Affordable Healthcare Act: Is history repeating itself?

Twitter's Williams may be worth $1B after IPO

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The personal fortune of Twitter co-founder Evan Williams probably will take up 10 characters once the online communications company goes public.

Tesla CEO says fire caused by impaled battery

PALO ALTO (AP) - The CEO of electric car company Tesla said Friday that a battery in a Model S that caught fire this week was apparently impaled by a metal object.

Clubbing almost as popular as gambling

LAS VEGAS (AP) - The cannon at the Flutter Fetti booth near the front of the gambling trade show in Las Vegas last week delivered regular bursts of metallic and crepe paper cutouts, shooting them to the ceiling in big booms and carpeting the floor with shimmering hearts, stars and circles. The glittery mess outshone the slot machines and online poker touchscreens in more ...

Twitter unseals IPO papers, hopes to raise almost $1B

Holiday shopping is expected to be up ... unless

NEW YORK (AP) - Americans, who're increasingly optimistic about improving economic conditions, are expected to spend at a more rapid clip during the upcoming holiday shopping season than they did last year.

New state law gives tax break to cultivate urban agriculture

LOS ANGELES (AP) - California cities hoping to promote community gardens and small-scale farms in urban areas are getting a boost from a new state law recently signed by Gov. Jerry Brown. The measure lets municipalities lower the assessed value - and property taxes - on plots of three acres or less if owners dedicate them to growing food for at least five years, the Los Angeles Times reported. The voluntary program makes it easier ...

Gear watch has potential, but falls short

NEW YORK - It didn't take long to see how a computerized wristwatch might help manage my digital life - or to see how Samsung's new Galaxy Gear smartwatch falls short.

Tesla fire shows electrics face safety challenges

FREMONT (AP) - When debris on a Seattle-area freeway pierced the battery of a $70,000-plus Tesla Model S and touched off a raging fire, it raised new safety concerns for electric-vehicle owners.

Oracle defends CEO's pay

Evite now selling paper invitations for first time

NEW YORK (AP) - Evite is going the paper route. The website, which pioneered digital invitations 15 years ago, is launching paper invites for the first time.

Cerberus interested in BlackBerry

Firefighters say Tesla car fire involved battery

SEATTLE (AP) - Flames that engulfed the front end of a Tesla electric car near Seattle also burned in the vehicle's battery pack, making it difficult for firefighters to extinguish the blaze, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

Icahn wants Apple to spend $150B buying its stock

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Activist investor Carl Icahn is pressuring Apple to spend $150 billion buying back its own stock, a target that would more than double the amount that the company's board authorized in a previous attempt to placate frustrated shareholders.

About myth of Social Security ‘welfare’ for disabled rich kids

Who gets what when someone dies

TO SPIN OR NOT TO SPIN

J.C. Penney dropped from S&P 500 index

NEW YORK (AP) - J.C. Penney is getting booted from the Standard & Poor's 500 index after losing more than half of its market value this year.

FCC chairman says he's no fan of in-flight calls

Shopper worries, Canada costs weigh on Target

NEW YORK (AP) - Target Corp.'s third-quarter profit dropped 47 percent, stung by a double whammy: a pullback from U.S. shoppers and costs related to its expansion into Canada

Sears 3Q loss widens as sales soften at stores

HealthCare.gov fix needs more time, money

NEW YORK (AP) - Technology experts say healing what ails the Healthcare.gov website will be a tougher task than the Obama administration acknowledges.

Nexus 5 delivers basics at great price

Samsung said it would appeal both verdicts.

Jury orders Samsung to pay Apple $290 million

J.C. Penney's 3Q loss widens; but things get better

With no surprise, is the magic dead?

NEW YORK (AP) - Count Cynthia Gibson among gift recipients not interested in being surprised.

Is Tesla advertising misleading public?

FREMONT (AP) - A U.S. safety agency is tightening the guidelines that control how automakers use government crash tests in advertising. The change by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration was prompted by Tesla Motors Inc., the Palo Alto, Calif., electric car company. Tesla has promoted its electric Model S as the safest car in America, saying it earned a 5.4-star rating from the government. The new guidelines stress that NHTSA doesn't give crash-test ratings ...

Gov't to require seat belts on large buses

WASHINGTON (AP) - New tour buses and buses that provide service between cities must be equipped with seat belts starting in late 2016 under a federal rule issued Wednesday, a safety measure sought by accident investigators for nearly a half century.

Gates chokes up at Ballmer's shareholder goodbye

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates choked up while reading from prepared remarks during Steve Ballmer's final shareholders meeting as chief executive.

$2.5B to settle hip replacement suits

$2.5B to settle hip replacement suits