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Users of iPhone 4S demand nearly three times the data of iPhone 3G users, which could indicate problems on the horizon for wireless carriers selling the smartphones.

BeachMint, a 14-month old social commerce focused fashion retailer, began shipping to Canada just a few weeks ago. The move was the beginning of a meticulously planned international expansion to come.

Federal regulators once again visited the small town of Dimock, Penn., to collect additional data from families who claim their well water is contaminated by hydraulic fracturing.

Apple shares neared their all-time high of $426.70 Friday after reports the computer giant might bid for TV rights for the English Premier League. The league includes the U.K.’s biggest football, or soccer clubs.

A few months before MF Global collapsed in bankruptcy, some top executives at the futures firm were talking about a plan code-named "Project Honeydew" as a way of freeing-up badly needed capital and cash.

Best Buy Co. (BBY) reported weak December same-store sales due to lower-than-expected holiday traffic until the last week before Christmas. Shares are trading higher after the company said it is standing by its full-year profit forecast.

The FDA's highly praised announcement only applies to a drug that is barely used by the agricultural industry.

Japan's Sony Corp will promote its consumer business chief Kazuo Hirai to the role of president as early as April, taking the title away from Howard Stringer, who is expected to remain chairman and CEO, the Nikkei newspaper reported

American Airlines, US Airways, and United Continental have all joined Delta in adding a $3 surcharge to fares purchased in the United States for flights to Europe in response to the EU's new Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

The world's biggest technology trade show will feature razor-thin laptops, powerful new smartphones, and fancy flat-screen TVs, but talk in the cavernous halls of the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show may center on whether the CES itself has a long-term future.

There are no heroes in stories like this. Everyone comes out looking bad.

General Motors said on Thursday that it has enhanced the vehicle structure and battery coolant system in its maligned battery-powered Chevrolet Volt, in an attempt to prevent the battery from catching on fire days or weeks after a serious crash.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. often gets an unfair rap. With the demise of Borders and the advancement of Amazon, it is easy to suggest that America's larget bookseller is ultimately doomed.

At CES 2012, Corning will introduce the next-generation of its damage-resistant specialty glass for TVs, PCs, smartphones and tablets called Gorilla Glass 2. The new glass is said to be thinner than Gorilla Glass but maintain its predecessor's ultra-strength.

Shares of venerable glassmaker Corning rose after the company said it plans to introduce Gorilla Glass 2, a new generation of highly durable glass, at next week’s Consumer Electronics Show.

Apple's foreign supply chain says the company will release the iPad 3 with a full HD display in March, and a completely renovated iPad 4 in October. The new iPads will make Apple's older iPad offerings cheaper and more accessible.

The new head of Europe's drugs watchdog said on Friday there was an acute need to tighten regulations on medical devices, adding to pressure for radical change in the wake of a global scandal over French-made breast implants.

Since Apple Inc. launched its highly anticipated tablet iPad on April 3, 2010, users of the world's most popular tablet have downloaded a total of three billion apps, or nearly one-fifth of all apps downloaded from the Apple App Store, according to Allied Business Intelligence Research.

The company is also promising to show off a waterproof tablet that sports a bright OLED display, plus a 55-inch QFHD television with glasses-free 3D at the trade show that's scheduled in Las Vegas.

Samsung Electronics Co. suffered a major setback in its attempt to get a sales ban on Apple's iPhone 4S in Italy. A Milan court on Wednesday rejected Samsung's bid to block Apple's latest smartphone sales in Italy, according to a Bloomberg report.

Some of the planet's top automakers are showcasing their latest concepts and models at the 2012 India Auto Expo in New Delhi, as they seek to boost sales in one of the biggest markets in the world, despite the recent slowdown in turnover.

LG Electronics has announced its coalition with Google to launch its own Google TV. LG is the latest entry to Google's ambitious internet TV alliance, which also includes Samsung, Sony and Vizio.

Samsung Electronics (005930.KS), the world's top maker of memory chips and smartphones, reported a record quarterly profit on Friday, aided by one-off gains and best-ever sales of high-end phones.

BMW AG has sealed its position as the most successful luxury brand in the U.S. in 2011 by outselling Daimler AG's Mercedes-Benz last month.

Apple's voice recognition software Siri has prompted users of the iPhone 4S to use almost twice as much data compared with iPhone 4 according to a report published by network management software vendor Arieso.

The ousted British CEO of Olympus Corp abandoned his three-month battle to replace the management of the scandal-tainted maker of medical devices, blaming big Japanese shareholders for not backing his campaign to take back the helm.

Grooveshark has been sued by the large record company EMI Group Ltd, which accused the popular digital music service of paying no royalties since entering a licensing agreement to stream music nearly three years ago.

A New York federal judge on Thursday damped hopes that he would throw out government wire tap evidence in the insider trading trial of Rajat Gupta, a former board member of Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble .

Samsung Electronics, the world's top maker of memory chips and smartphones, estimated on Friday its October-December operating profit would jump 73 percent from a year ago to a lifetime high, aided by record-breaking sales of smartphones.