Samsung updates tablets on heels of iPad refresh

US sues to lower prices of e-book best-sellers

Natural gas prices dip below $2 mark

Alcoa's surprise 1Q profit could boost Wall Street stocks

Loyal Instagram users fret about Facebook

Drivers to pay 6% more for gas this summer

Oil drops to $101 per barrel, natural gas falls to near $2

Yahoo CEO outlines new corporate structure

SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) - A week after announcing a painful round of job cuts, Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson unveiled a plan Tuesday that will reorganize the company into three main divisions focused on users, advertisers and technology. Thompson unveiled the plan at an "all hands" meeting for employees at the company's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. It will take effect on May 1. ...

‘Best Buy CEO resigns amid investigation

Apple market value hits $600B

Chevron says 1Q profit will beat 4Q results

SAN RAMON (AP) - Chevron says higher oil prices will help push first-quarter profit higher than fourth-quarter earnings despite a drop in U.S. production. The oil company said Tuesday that it also benefited from higher refining profit margins, lower operating costs, and gains from selling assets. Foreign-exchange losses are expected to be larger. Chevron Corp. didn't say what ...

Tax deadline day can be deadly time to travel on natiion’s roads

Dow closes below 13,000 for 1st time in a month

Laid-off Yahoo workers urged to go east to Detroit

DETROIT (AP) - A financial company that is betting on a Detroit turnaround is trying to lure laid-off Yahoo workers to Michigan. Quicken Loans has started the website www.valleytodetroit.com to promote the Motor City to Yahoo workers axed last week in California. Quicken's businesses include mortgages, venture capital and sports graphics. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo announces plans Wednesday ...

Microsoft/AOL deal part of patent scramble

Wealthy get most major tax breaks

Sales of bank-owned homes hit 5-year low

Bill would require OT, other benefits for nannies

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Democrats have passed a bill that would provide overtime pay, meal breaks and other labor protections for domestic workers in California. Lawmakers in the Assembly passed AB241 by Democratic Assemblyman Tom Ammiano of San Francisco on a 41-24 vote Wednesday. Ammiano said the bill - called the Domestic Workers of Bill of Rights - seeks to give housekeepers, nannies and caregivers fair pay and safe working conditions. It now moves to the ...

China's Shuanghui in $4.7B deal for Smithfield Foods

Home prices rise percent across nation for biggest gain since 2006

Economic gains boost confidence to 5-year high

Netflix stock sinks on mixed reviews of 'Arrested'

Who gets the cash in Starbucks' tip jars?

Entry fee study sparks northern opposition

SEATTLE (AP) - By Michael Hill's estimation, 90 percent of the people pumping gas at his station just south of the U.S.-Canada border in Washington state are Canadians.

Bridge collapse a major break in I-5 trade corridor

SEATTLE (AP) - For farmers, business owners and government officials up and down the West Coast, Washington's bridge collapse on Interstate 5 represents much more than a close brush with tragedy. As much as $20 billion in freight travels to and from Canada and along the busy north-south corridor each year.

North Korea relaxes state controls on worker salaries

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) - North Korea relaxed state control of salaries last month, a government economist said, outlining a change in policy intended to boost production by giving companies latitude to provide workers with financial incentives.

Cruise ship stories all wet

Google to add Galapagos Islands to Street View

Sears reports bigger-than-expected 1Q loss

Applications for unemployment aid fall to 340K