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The euro zone's debt crisis could substantially damage the U.S. economy if not contained, the Federal Reserve's No. 2 official warned on Friday as she urged bold action by Europe.

Facebook revealed privacy principles in a memo to the FTC sent in Feb. 2011.

A federal judge ordered Raj Rajaratnam, the Galleon Group hedge fund founder sentenced to 11 years in prison for insider trading, to pay a record $92.8 million penalty in a related U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission civil case.

NASA is preparing to launch its largest and most advanced Mars rover at the end of the month. It will spend nearly two years examining areas of the Red Planet.

As part of the restructuring related to the merger of its two banking units, Mizuho Financial Group Inc will cut 10 percent of its workforce, or 3,000 jobs, by end of fiscal 2015, The Nikkei said.

The Federal Reserve will begin a new round of bank stress tests in a couple of weeks, a top Fed official said on Friday, warning that strains from Europe's debt crisis threaten the U.S. economy and financial system.

The mobile industry is rapidly consuming many segments of the technology industry, but not without facing several challenges.

IBM said it will sell a new security software patch to enterprises to ensure mobile devices like smartphones and tablets are secure. The move is part of a new emphasis on computer security.

Troubled BlackBerry developer Research in Motion has a major new investor: Omega Advisors, the investment vehicle of activist investor Leon Cooperman, has acquired 1.43 million shares.

Screen Gems has acquired the remake rights for the Indonesian action movie The Raid, the studio announced Wednesday.

After 13 years together, Maggy Porter and Arlene Bronfman began to talk last June about marriage when New York State passed its Marriage Equality Act.

California's revenue in October came in $810.5 million below its projected level in the state budget, increasing pressure on its leaders to impose more spending cuts to keep the state's books balanced, the state controller said on Thursday.

Stunning photographs of Marilyn Monroe and Kate Moss will be up for auction by Bonhams on Nov. 17 at Bonhams' New Bond Street, London.

This gallery guides visitors from the past to the present with a series of old photographs and a beautiful set of exclusive photographs taken in November 2011. After two centuries of barring public from accessing the facility, it opened to the public Nov. 10 with the launch of the BLDG 92 Brooklyn Navy Yard Center.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has set a new standard for the modern role-playing game.

Gold fell on Thursday, on track for its biggest one-day loss in two weeks, as fearsabout political turmoil in Italy and a deepening euro zone debt crisis prompted investors to raise cash by liquidating somepositions in the bullion market.

Olympus Corp shareholders burned by the Japanese company's accounting scandal are unlikely to recover investment losses in U.S. courts and might not fare much better suing in Japan.

In the wake of two of Xbox 360's greatest games, rumors have begun to surface about the next generation of the Xbox, the Xbox 720.

The Commerce Department said on Wednesday it would investigate whether Chinese companies sell solar panels in the United States at unfair discounts and receive illegal government subsidies.

Gasoline and diesel prices fell in the Portland, Oregon, market as two refineries finished seasonal overhauls, traders said.

Phobos-Grunt, Russia's space probe to the Martian moon Phobos, is stuck in orbit Wednesday. Officials cite equipment failure as the problem, raising new fears that the probe could release toxic fuel as it falls back towards earth, unless engineers are able to steer it back on track.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg outlined the company's business strategy and why it's different than all the other tech giants in an interview with Charlie Rose.

Long Island voters in Nassau and Suffolk counties Tuesday trended Democratic, with Democrats retaking the Suffolk County Executive’s post and upping their seats in the Nassau County Legislature. They regained control of the Long Beach City Council.

Many people would -- and some have probably tried to -- sell their own mothers in order to get into a major motion picture. Not Bilal Ahmed.

Mitt Romney is earning the ire of Democrats due to his opposition of the auto industry bailouts ahead of the GOP debate in Michigan on Wednesday.

A black asteroid as big as an aircraft carrier zoomed past Earth on Tuesday, delighting astronomers who trained telescopes on the ancient body in hopes of learning more about its composition and origin.

There's been a seismic shift in web browser usage across the world.

Find out the best early winter vacation deals on airfare and cruises, before you pay too much.

Troubled retailer American Apparel Inc (APP.A) reported a narrower third-quarter loss, helped partly by lower operating expenses, and said it expects to improve its performance in the fourth quarter and next year.