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Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK), the nation's second largest natural gas producer, is seeking to patch its $22 billion shortfall brought on by dropping natural gas prices by selling its midstream pipeline assets to Global Infrastructure Partners for $4 billion, the company announced Friday.

Prime Minister David Cameron endorsed the law, calling forced marriage completely wrong and tantamount to ?slavery.?

Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site, rose sharply Friday trading after a preliminary report by comScore (Nasdaq: SCOR) that its advertisements are effective.

Sprint Nextel Corp.'s Virgin Mobile announced Wednesday that it would start selling contract-free versions of Apple iPhone 4 and iPhne 4S with prepaid plans ranging from $30 to $50 a month, starting June 29.

Little by little, we've been piecing together the puzzle known as the iPhone 5. We already have a pretty good idea of what the iPhone 5 will look like, but we are still largely uncertain what will be inside the phone. According to a research note, Apple will make significant improvements to the entire camera infrastructure in the iPhone 5, all while decreasing the overall thickness of the phone.

Both Virgin Mobile and Cricket Wireless will be among the first U.S carriers to launch Apple's iPhone on a pre-paid service.

Sino-Japanese joint venture National Electric Vehicle Sweden AB (NEVS) has paid a paltry 1.5 billion to 1.8 billion kronor ($210 to $250 million) for defunct Swedish carmaker Saab Automobile AB.

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, extended its push into the pre-paid mobile market by adding Virgin Mobile USA, which will sell the device for between $30 and $50 a month.

We're just four days 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. A new report says that Apple will introduce as many as 14 new Mac models at WWDC, including desktop computers (iMac and Mac Pro) and laptops (MacBook Pro and MacBook Air), among other products.

Richard Schulze, the founder and largest shareholder of Best Buy Co. (NYSE: BBY), the biggest U.S. electronics chain store, told the company's board Thursday he is resigning, effectively immediately. A reason for the abrupt departure was not publicly disclosed.

Shares of LinkedIn Corp. (Nasdaq: LNKD), one of the top professional social network sites, rose as much as 1 percent in early trading despite reports of security breaches of member passwords.

When people think of hurricane damage they usually think of Miami or New Orleans, but a new report suggests the greatest financial risk of all may be much farther north: the greater New York City area.

At a time when consumers in the United States are eagerly waiting for Samsung to start shipping of its latest flagship smartphone, Galaxy S3, the South Korean conglomerate has confronted a serious hitch that could end up delaying the availability of the device in the country.

NASCAR fans are car fans, and the racing league and manufacturers like Toyota that compete in the Spring Cup Series are betting that some design tweaks can energize that fandom as well as dealership sales.

Taco Bell?s new, ?upscale? menu items will give the 2 a.m. crowd a bit more ?gourmet? to go with its munchies. The chain restaurant will unleash its new ?Cantina Bell? menu on July 5, featuring new items that include ingredients such as Citrus and Herb Marinated Chicken and Cilantro Rice.

Sales of electronic chips rose 3.4 percent to $24.1 billion in April, the biggest monthly boost in two years, the Semiconductor Industry Association reported. The trade group repeated an earlier forecast for yearly chip sales to reach $301 billion, a slight boost over 2011.

Maybe LinkedIn should change its name to LeakedIn. On Wednesday, the business networking site said it is investigating a user's post from a Russian forum that claims he hacked LinkedIn, uploading 6,458,020 encrypted passwords to the site as proof.

Some of the world's most popular brands are partnering with music festivals to tap into a much-coveted demographic.

Now that the initial public offering of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site, has lost 32 percent of its value, technology giants including International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM), Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) and Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) are on a shopping spree. That may chill the IPO pipeline.

Nasdaq has reached out to at least one brokerage that lost money due to Facebook's botched IPO, saying it will make an announcement Wednesday.

Kia Motors Corporation (Seoul: 000270) is recalling 72,568 model year 2006 to 2008 Kia Rio cars due to a defect which can cause deployment of airbags when children are in the passenger seat during a crash, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Tuesday.

In the past 24 hours, Google has acquired two companies to substantially improve its various online services. On Monday, Google bought social start-up Meebo to enhance its social services like Google Chat and its social network Google+, and on Tuesday, Google bought Quickoffice to boost the functionality and compatibility of Google Apps like Docs, Gmail, Calendar, Google Drive, and more.

One of the main selling points of the Piaggio Aero Avanti II private plane is the relatively massive cabin size. If you're in the market for a private plane, you probably want comfort, and that probably means the ability to sit and stand without feeling crunched. Piaggio says the Avanti II is the perfect plane for this, but how do some of the other competitors stack up?

At E3 2012, the focus seems to be on a lot more than gaming. Each console is competing to gain dominance as the prominent entertainment system in living rooms around the globe, with a different approach from Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo.

Airline stocks were recovering on Tuesday from a battering the previous day after Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) showed a 6 percent increase in per-seat passenger revenue in May compared to last year, one percentage point lower than it had expected.

On Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled a stunning new technology platform at the Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles called SmartGlass, which essentially connects the television and the Xbox to smartphones and tablets, letting users consume their media in a much simpler and more fun way.

Shares of AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL), the No. 7 website, traded near their 52-week high again Tuesday after activist investors Starboard Value won more crucial backing to win seats on the board of directors.

General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM) and its joint ventures in China sold a record number of vehicles last month as demand jumped more than 20 percent from the year-earlier level.

Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, kept setting new lows after their May 17 IPO. By Tuesday, they'd shed 32 percent of their value.