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AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL), the No. 7 website, got a tepid response from investors Thursday, the start of a $400 million Dutch auction tender offer.

Following an extended game of chicken, the Obama administration granted China and Singapore an exception to the Iranian oil sanctions, senior White House officials said Thursday.

European airplane manufacturer Airbus SAS will build its first U.S. factory in Mobile, Ala., as it intensifies its competition with main rival, U.S.-based Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA), The Associated Press reported Thursday.

After a four-month investigation, a labor rights group has discovered deplorable working conditions throughout Apple's manufacturing network in China.

Health insurance providers say they are prepared for the U.S. health care system changes upheld Thursday by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, has posted a $2.6 million bond with a U.S. district court to enforce an injunction against its supplier and rival Samsung Electronics (Seoul: 005930).

After announcing a slew of new Android-optimized hardware and software products on Wednesday, Google announced on Thursday it will finally port Google Chrome, the second most popular Web browser in the world, to the iPhone and iPad operating system (iOS). In addition, Google will also release an iOS-optimized version of Google Drive, which is the company's cloud service for syncing and sharing information from your Google accounts to all your devices. Google Chrome Coming To Apple iPhone, iPa...

The Stolen Valor Act decision is the Rodney Dangerfield of the day's Supreme Court rulings -- it's not getting any respect or attention amid the flurry of that other decision announced Thursday, when the court upheld the Affordable Care Act.

The Court current consists of nine justices, six men and three women. By racial background, seven are white, one is black and one is Latino.

While Bangladesh has a secular legal structure for most matters, things like marriage, divorce and inheritance are subject to religious dictums.

The Supreme Court's approval of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is unambiguously good for American business, a George Mason University analyst said Thursday, a view also expressed by Standard & Poor's Ratings Services.

Investors in Barclays PLC (NYSE: BCS) (London: BARC) lost over £4 billion Thursday as the British bank lost one-sixth of its market capitalization a day after international regulators announced the bank would have to pay hundreds of millions as a fine for an audacious price-fixing fraud some of its traders were found to have engaged in.

While Republicans and most conservatives might well be disappointed by Thursday?s Supreme Court decision to uphold President Barack Obama?s Affordable Health Act, one of their own is the person of the day: Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.

The American Hospital Association praised the Supreme Court's decision Thursday to affirm the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Tamils who lack their identity cards can also fall under the suspicion by the army and police or being LTTE supporters.

After the Supreme Court health care decision, the National Retail Federation, the world's largest advocate for merchandisers, said Thursday the law is too complicated and difficult for businesses to implement and administer.

The Supreme Court health care decision confirming the constitutionality of the president's signature legislative achievement and expanding insurance to millions of low-income Americans under Medicaid will provide a large influx of new customers and notable revenue opportunity for Medicaid-focused managed-care organizations (MCOs).

The largest association of U.S. physicians praised the Supreme Court's decision Thursday to uphold the Affordable Care Act as a key to expanding health care to some 30 million Americans.

The Supreme Court?s ruling to uphold the Affordable Health Care Act will likely benefit the technology industry, from computer services providers like Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) to medical electronics makers like Agilent Technologies (NYSE: A).

Surjeet?s release from prison caused some confusion last week, when it was reported that another Indian prisoner in Pakistan with a similar name, Sarabjit Singh, was going to be freed from death row.

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, may change the way iTunes works so that it?s more closely integrated with the iCloud file-storage service, news services said.

From busy lanes along the feet of skyscrapers and a throng of commuters armed with cutting edge technology, to shamanistic shrines and grand palaces, Seoul -- a city of ten million -- is an amalgamation of a modern high-tech metropolis retaining the legacy of age old traditions.

Aggressively priced at $199 for the 8GB model and $249 for the 16 GB model, the Nexus 7 is smaller than an iPad at 7 inches, but it's still packed with impressive innards, including a quad-core Tegra 3 processor, a 1.2-megapixel camera, 1GB of RAM, a 4,325mAh battery and NFC built in. The Nexus will start shipping next month with Google's updated Jelly Bean 4.1 OS.

Pranab Mukherjee, ruling UPA party's nominee and former finance minister of India filed his nomination papers for the July 19 presidential elections on Thursday, in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress Party chief Sonia Gandhi and other leaders.

The newspapers that give Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (Nasdaq: NWSA) its name may soon be on their own after the media giant's board approved a breakup that could radically reshape the global media landscape.

Along with the announcement of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, Google also said that OTA updates of Jelly Bean would be released in mid-July for Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus and Xoom. If you are wondering what about the Samsung Galaxy S3, the device could possibly be well-equipped to run on the upcoming Android version.

U.S. stock index futures declined Thursday morning, pointing to a lower opening on Wall Street ahead of a decisive European Union summit in Brussels, where EU leaders will meet to tackle the euro zone debt crisis head on. The summit will take place June 28-29.

Asian stock markets mostly advanced Thursday as better-than-expected economic data from the US buoyed sentiment, but gains were capped as investors are being cautious ahead of the EU summit later in the day.

European markets rose Thursday following encouraging data from the U.S., but investors remain watchful ahead of the European Union summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday, where leaders will discuss tackling the EU debt crisis with concrete measures