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Bridgepoint Education and Corinthian Colleges were upbeat about signing up new students entering 2012, signaling that the worst is finally over for U.S. for-profit colleges that had faced dwindling enrollments in the wake of stricter government rules.

Yahoo buys Interlick, an online ad technology company, while searching for a new CEO.

Published on Halloween, a study co-authored by Pontus Skoglund and Martin Jacobsson found that a recently discovered member of the Homo genus' genes are more common than we previously thought.

Officials in the Florida Everglades were got surprised last week when they found a fully intact deer inside the stomach of a 16-foot Burmese python they had captured and killed.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Monday that a proposal to bring an applied sciences university to the city continues to move forward. Under Applied Sciences NYC, dubbed one of the most exciting projects the city has undertaken in the past decade by U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer, seven proposals are under consideration for the groundbreaking program. The winner will be awarded free city land and up to $100 million in city capital funding in exchange for constructing a ma...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke out Monday against Republican Leader Eric Cantor's plan for the House to work just 109 days in 2012. Cantor defended his calendar, saying it allows members of Congress to do important work in their districts. But another key reason for the abbreviated schedule that Congress has followed for decades is the increasing importance of campaign finance, which leaves fundraising as top priority in an election year.

China, the world's largest iron ore purchaser, has held talks with with Vale SA, Rio Tinto Group, and BHP Billiton Ltd. in order t set a new pricing system after a large crash in market prices.

Microsoft will release a commercial software development kit for the Kinect in early 2012.

The CW and Hulu have reached a five-year deal for the rights to stream in-season episodes of the CW's content on Hulu's subscription service Hulu Plus, the network announced Friday. The deal makes Hulu Plus the only online subscription service that will carry in-season episodes of CW shows. The shows will be available for streaming on free, ad-supported Hulu.com site shortly after they appear on the subscription site.

With U.S. government closing the chapter to space exploration, commercial space companies are trying to convince lawmakers to invest in their business ventures.

On Friday, NASA launched a new satellite that will improve our short-term weather forecasting accuracy, among other contributions.

SpongeBob SquarePants and his friends have teamed up with Nickelodeon, PFG Precious Metals and New Zealand Mint to strike 100,00 pure silver coins, each featuring the likeness of one of the most popular Bikini Beach characters.

Several updates to Google+ have been announced.

The Federal Communications Commission aproved a $4.5 billion subsidy to extend high-speed internet to 18 million Americans.

According to scientists at Hong Kong University, a new discovery indicates that star dust may have played a vital role in the development of life on our planet.

From thousands of miles away, Chinese military is believed to have hacked American satellites between 2007 and 2008.

The icy planet that lead to Pluto's demoting in our solar system is now identified to be almost identical to the ex-ninth planet.

Many buildings in the old city of Suakin in the Red Sea state along the Red Sea are being restored in a bid to attract tourism to the state.

Occidental Petroleum Corp expects to have drilled 195 shale oil wells in its home state of California by the end of this year, although it would like to drill far more if the permitting process allowed it.

Relativity Media on Thursday unveiled the first film to emerge from the Chinese co-production/distribution deal it jointly announced over the summer.

Nokia, the leading phone manufacturer in the world, announced a new phone technology that allows users to bend and twist the device in order to control it.

IBM has announced that, for the first time in its history, it will have a woman, Virginia Ginni Rometty, run the company.

The details of Steve Jobs' LSD experiences may forever be a mystery.

In a one of the largest schemes in MTA history, people were arrested on Thursday and brought up on federal charges in which hundreds of the Long Island Rail Road workers made false disability claims costing an estimated $1 billion.

Bernie Madoff, the infamous entrepreneur and investor who operated one of the largest Ponzi schemes in American history, is speaking to the media as part of a resurgent interest from the public.

California political leaders chose a site near the headquarters of Solyndra to kick off hearings on how the state's growing cleantech industry can proceed in the wake of that solar company's dramatic collapse.

Title insurer First American Financial Corp posted third-quarter profit that missed market estimates, hurt by higher claims and lower orders.

Why don't we look anything like these relatives? The reason, scientists say, is because of the junk, or non-coding DNA.

Warner Bros. has stopped selling its new releases to Blockbuster in an attempt to force the chain to accept a 28-day rental window. Warners wants Blockbuster to wait that long before renting out DVDs or Blu-rays, the way Netflix and Redbox do.