Lower gas prices not enough to lift economy

JPMorgan CEO: Execs may have pay taken back

Women MDs paid less: reluctant to push for raises?

NYC health board likes big drink ban proposal

Bill for normal trade with Russia opposed

More than 7 in 10 teens jobless in summer

Verizon to phase out most existing phone plans

Facebook's growth rate is slowing: WSJ

NEW YORK (AP) - Facebook's growth appears to be slowing, particularly in the U.S., according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Unique U.S. visitors to the wildly popular social media site rose 5 percent in April to 158 million, according to data attributed to comScore. ComScore confirmed the data. That's the slowest growth rate since comScore ...

Fed reports how much recession shrank median family wealth back to 1992 levels

New Apple mobile software gets maps, Siri updates

Apple kicks Google Maps off iPhone, adds Facebook as vendetta remains alive

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Steve Jobs' vendetta against Google remains alive, nine months after the Apple co-founder died feeling betrayed by a company he once embraced as an ally.

New Mac OS in July has social-network integration

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Next month, Apple will release its new operating system for Mac computers. Dubbed Mountain Lion, Mac OS X 10.8 will cost $19.99 - $10 cheaper than what the current system, Lion, costs. Those buying Mac computers starting on Monday will get the upgrade for free when it's available. Apple Inc. already demonstrated many of ...

Apple expected to show fresh software, new Macs

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to show off new iPhone software, updated Mac computers and provide more details on future releases of Mac software when he kicks off the company's annual conference for software developers on Monday.

How retirement benefits are figured

Kraft Foods spurns NYSE for Nasdaq, citing the costs

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.

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