Facebook buying photo-share app Instagram for $1B

Natural gas firm proposes ND-Okla. oil pipeline

Natural gas firm proposes ND-Okla. oil pipeline

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

Amazon reports lower 1Q earnings, higher revenue

Starbucks' profit shows Americans need coffee fix

Man says insurance won't cover bullet damage

Senate advances bill to tax Internet sales

Pot smokers can be fired, even in Colo.

Exxon 1Q earnings rise, production slips again