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The 2013 Toyota Avalon is seen from the front at the 2012 New York International Auto Show

2013 Avalon, Toyota's New Princess at the Ball, May Lack in Specs [PICTURES]

The redesigned 2013 Toyota Avalon was the oft-overlooked, 'Liza Doolittle of the New York International Auto Show 2012. Previous generations of the Avalon were always somewhat plain, though reliable and relatively comfortable, and they never caused a heart to beat or a young man to stutter with their looks, until now.
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Citigroup's 1Q Earnings Expected To Be Flat

Analysts expect quarterly revenue of $19.85 billion, which would be a bump up from the $19.73 billion Citi posted a year ago. Net income is expected to be 99 cents a share, compared with $1 a share in the first quarter of 2011.
A customer looks at laptops at a Dell outlet in Beijing

HP Keeps PC Crown But Asian Vendors Take Share

Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), the No. 1 PC vendor, kept its crown in the first quarter and added share as worldwide PC shipments rose 1.9 percent, market researcher Gartner (NYSE: IT) said.
Air India, a struggling state-owned airline, is set to receive $5 billion in cash injection from the Indian government

Unprofitable Air India Getting $5B From Govt

Struggling, unprofitable state-owned Air India Ltd. is set to receive 300 billion rupees ($5.8 billion) in bailout money from the country's government as it struggles with tough competition and high fuel cost.
New VW cars are covered with protective covers before loaded for export on a transport ship at the harbour in Emden

Volkswagen 1Q Sales Reach Record 2 Million Cars

Volkswagen Group’s global first-quarter sales surpassed 2 million vehicles for the first time in the company’s history as North American and Chinese sales rose dramatically, the company announced Friday.
The Nissan logo on a car.

Nissan Expanding Chinese Operations

Nissan Motor Co. will invest as much as 40 billion yen, $494 million, to build a fourth Chinese factory through its joint venture with Dongfeng Motor Group Co., Nikkei reported Friday.
Barnes & Noble New NOOK Now Lets You Read in the Dark

Barnes & Noble New NOOK Now Lets You Read In Darkness; Will The GlowLight Device Conquer The Market Of Apple And Amazon? [PHOTOS & VIDEO]

Barnes & Noble has invented a GlowLight solution for those who are addicted to bedtime reading and at the same time do not wish to disturb their sleepy spouses. As claimed by the company, NOOK Simple Touch is the world's first E Ink reader flaunting patent-pending lighting technology with a soft, adjustable glow feature -- GlowLight -- which will let the users read in the darkness, giving them just the right amount of light required for reading.
iPhone 5 Concept - Design by Federico Ciccarese

The Most Anticipated Phones In 2012 – List Of The Biggies

This is going to be an exciting year for smartphone lovers. While rumors of the release of iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S3 are flying high, other big shots like HTC One X, One S, LG Viper 4G and HTC Incredible 4G are also hitting the shelves within a very short period of time.
Gas pipeline

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners' $5B Pipeline Expansion

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners announced Thursday it will expand its existing Trans Mountain pipeline system, spending $5 billion to double its capacity as Canadian companies try to expand oil shipments to overseas markets.
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Google’s 2-for-1 Stock Split: How It Will Work

Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), the No. 1 search engine, announced an unusual stock split Thursday when it published its first quarter financial results. In effect, it will trim the stock’s price from its current $651.01 in half, while doubling the number of shares.

iPhone 5 Features Wish List: 10 Ways Apple Could Blow Us Away [PICTURES]

Apple changed the entire smartphone genre with the introduction of the iPhone in 2007, and five years later, Apple fans are anxiously awaiting a new iPhone, rumored to be released between June and October 2012. Nobody outside the enormous complex at 1 Infinite Loop truly knows what the sixth-generation iPhone, presumably called the iPhone 5, will look like or feature, but that isn't stopping us from daydreaming about all of the possible features in Apple's next phone.
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Professors Allege More Accounting Problems At Demand Media

Villanova's Anthony Catanach and Penn State's Edward Ketz say the operator of eHow.com and other sites is overly aggressive with cost capitalization, a method of recording lower expenses for the period in which a cost was incurred.
The logo of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer, is seen outside the company's headquarters in Leuven

Anheuser-Busch In Lead For Presidente Brewer

Anheuser-Busch InBev NV may be serving up cervezas en espanol, as the Belgian brewer has emerged as the lead bidder for Cerveceria Nacional Dominicana SA, maker of Presidente Beer.
Antonio De Rosa Concept Design

From iPhone 5 To iTunes 11: Top 5 Rumored Apple Products In 2012

Most tech products in general and Apple products in particular see a lot of chatter in the press before they're finally announced. The rumors and speculations try to envisage what the products will offer and when they will finally land on the users' hands.
An organ donation video people can watch on an iPod while they wait at the Department of Motor Vehicles may encourage more to become donors, a new study suggests. Researchers found that for folks getting a driver's license at the DMV in their county, watc

The Power of Apple: DMV Uses iPod Video To Encourage Organ Donation

An organ donation video people can watch on an iPod while they wait at the Department of Motor Vehicles may encourage more to become donors, a new study suggests. Researchers found that for folks getting a driver's license at the DMV in their county, watching a video on one of Apple's iPods seemed to sway the decision on becoming an organ donor.

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