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As expected, Apple unveiled iOS 6 during the keynote presentation for the 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco. Nobody knew what Apple would include in its latest mobile operating system for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, but with more than 200 new features added to the iOS platform, this is the most comprehensive update Apple has ever released to its mobile devices.

Now that Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, has opened its Worldwide Developers Conference with the usual product splash, what happened to Apple TV?

Apple iOS 6 Software will bring a whole host of updates to Siri in the fall, but the biggest tease during the WWDC keynote on Monday was Eyes Free; a feature that integrates Siri into your car.

In iOS 6, which was unveiled Monday at the 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, Apple has decided to apply these same tactics of deep integration with Facebook, the world's largest social network with more than 900 million users. This is all great for Facebook, but what is Apple getting in return?

TomTom (Pink:TMOAF), the Dutch navigation software specialist, is already benefiting from its new tie to Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, which hired it to provide data for the iPhone.

Felda Global Ventures Holdings, Malaysia's state-owned palm oil producer, will likely exceed its IPO target of $3.2 billion when it goes public on June 29.

Among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Tuesday are: Ceragon Networks, Renren, Strategic Hotels & Resorts, Telefonica, EzChip Semiconductor, Banco Santander, Siemens, Pfizer and Goodyear Tire & Rubber.

PC gamers have long awaited the release date for ?Diablo 3,? which launched nearly a month ago on May 15. The widely-perceived computer game has been a staple of the PC gaming genre since its inception, and the third installment is said to look even sharper on Apple?s new MacBook Pro featuring Retina display.

Google Maps has been a signature feature of the iPhone since its first launch in 2007, but that will now change. At the 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, Apple introduced a new Maps application as a part of the new iOS 6 platform coming in the fall. But this Maps app isn't built by Google; this one is Apple-made.

Opponents say the ballot initiative, up for a vote on Tuesday, could potentially exempt religious people and groups from discrimination laws in the name of their faith.

Here's a window into how low the bad guys will stoop to steal retail inventory: Last week in California, 1,600 pounds of premium dog food, a $10,000 cargo on its way to feed animals at a local pet rescue facility, was stolen.

At the 2012 Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, Apple announced that the next version of its OS X operating system for Macs, dubbed Mountain Lion, will be released in July. The company did not give out a specific date and time.

On the first day of Apple?s Worldwide Developers Conference, improvements in Siri are unveiled.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has taken aim squarely at the hearts of gearheads and Top Gear fans by welcoming the legendary Stig (well, according to wired.com they're calling him Mr. X, but he sure looks like The Stig) on stage at the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2012 to play the CSR racing game for iOS and Mac, Monday. While fun at first sight, however, the move may be indicative of cracks in Apple's finely polished marketing veneer.

China?s Lenovo Group (Pink: LNVGY), the No. 2 PC maker, announced a no-contract broadband service for its ThinkPad Classic and ThinkPad Edge laptops for customers in the U.S. and nine European countries.

Boost Labs LLC in Gaithersburg, Va., has launched the Top Gear Test Track interactive data set so fans of the hit BBC car show, Top Gear, can evaluate cars featured on the show. And the winner? It's the Ariel Atom V8 500.

We're just a few hours away from the start of the 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, which is expected to be one of the biggest Apple events of the year. Hours later, the company learned even more new specs, this time about Apple's thinnest laptop, the MacBook Air.

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) has agreed to settle a probe into sales of its antipsychotic drug Risperdal and other medications for as much as $2.2 billion, Bloomberg reported Monday, citing two people familiar with the matter.

Bankrupt Eastman Kodak Co. (Pink: EKDKQ) may try to generate cash by trying to sell its portfolio of 1,100 imaging patents again, the Wall Street Journal reported.

So much for doubling down on secrecy. On Friday, several San Francisco residents snapped photos of banners being raised in the Moscone Center's west exhibition hall, one of the event sites for Apple's 2012 Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC), for the iOS 6. Even though WWDC 2012 will apparently center around the Mac, Apple will nevertheless find time to introduce developers to new tools and features for the iPhone's and iPad's next-generation operating system.

This year's Worldwide Developer Conference is all set to kick off 10 a.m. PT on Monday at Moscone West center in San Francisco. Here's is a list of websites where you can get the complete coverage of the Apple event. These sites will be live blogging the WWDC 2012 event.

Former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta, who is accused of insider trading, will not testify in his own defense, according to a letter written by his main lawyer to the U.S. District Judge in New York.

With Air India considering a tough stand against the striking pilots, India's Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said Monday that the state carrier's management would have to come to a decision on the issue soon.

Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc board member Rajat Gupta, who is on trial over insider trading charges, has decided not to take the risk of testifying in his own defence.

GE Capital -- the financial-services unit of the General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) -- may be in for a round of slicing and dicing by its corporate parent, according to an account appearing online in the Wall Street Journal.

Combatants on the front lines in the war on cancer have a new weapon in the arsenal, as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday OK'd Perjeta -- flanked by Herceptin and docetaxel -- for deployment in a three-pronged attack on the enemy cells in people with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.

Verizon and AT&T have opted out of the 50GB Dropbox cloud storage promotion for their versions of the latest Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone.

Tom and Ray Magliozzi, better known as Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers of Car Talk fame, are calling it quits on their popular NPR radio show, the duo announced Friday.

Two Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) directors -- members of the audit committee now dealing with the personal finances of the company's CEO -- offered their resignations Friday after they attracted little support at the annual shareholders meeting.