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Marketing guru John Jantsch has built a small empire around his Duct Tape Marketing brand, which dispenses practical small business marketing ideas and tips.

Verizon customers looking to upgrade their phones have a few choices in the $99 range, and the HTC Thunderbolt, Droid 3 and Motorola Droid Incredible are three of the best.

General Electric, the U.S.'s largest industrial manufacturer, is expected to report a 22.3 percent fourth-quarter profit increase when it announces its earnings Friday, driven by strong equipment order and pricing trends and growth in the aviation and energy infrastructure sectors. It marks the seventh straight quarter of operating earnings growth.

The contractors were part of a group who were drilling an exploratory well off the coast of Nigeria.

Founder and CEO of HiiDef Jonathan Marcus is giving people intuitive ways to design and create personal websites. Flavors.me, the original HiiDef product, integrates social networks and other popular web services. Goodsie, launched in May 2011, helps people build an online store in an intuitive fashion.

A teabagging incident after the BCS National Championship game between an Alabama fan and a LSU fan has suddenly gotten very serious as New Orleans police have gotten involved and could charge the Alabama fan with sexual assault.

At the Guggenheim Museum in New York on Thursday, Apple revolutionized the education industry with three new apps, including the new iTunes U app, which lets teachers upload course materials, lessons, syllabi and even books to their students via the iPad.

eBay users have a history of offering popular items such as iPads, Coach handbags and Hello Kitty, but the shutdown of Dublin Dr Pepper created offers on themed merchandise that included the ridiculous: Four six-packs of glass bottles of the beverage for $9,999.

American Express Company (NYSE: AXP), the biggest credit-card issuer by purchases, is expected to beat Wall Street's consensus profit estimates, with earnings gains driven by stronger consumer spending and a diversified business model. This is sharp change from prior quarters when the company grew profits by dipping deeper into the company's reserve funds that were set aside to cushion against future losses.

The move underscores the company's need to provide wireless bandwidth to a customer base increasingly using data-heavy smartphones.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) formally introduced a copyright bill backed by the Internet industry to rival the controversial Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA).

At the Guggenheim Museum in New York Thursday, Apple announced it would update its iBooks platform to include textbook capabilities and also added a new platform called iBooks Author, which lets anyone easily create and publish their own e-books.

Rupert Murdoch's company News Group Newspapers is settling with actor Jude Law and more than 30 additional victims of phone hacking practices.

Full transcript of the court's preliminary inquiry into Concordia Captain Francesco Schettino, who crashed the ship on Friday and allegedly fled the scene.

Photography firm Eastman Kodak Company and its U.S. subsidiaries have filed for chapter 11 business to boost liquidity, monetize non-strategic intellectual property and fairly resolve legacy liabilities.

The founder of a French company at the heart of an international health scandal acknowledged on Wednesday that he had used unapproved silicone in breast implants, but said France's recommendation for women to have them removed was criminal.

A long, sometimes violent strike at the world's biggest gold mine slashed output and cut earnings in the fourth quarter of 2011 for Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., but full year 2011 results still marked an increase.

Long-suffering investors may wonder what to do with their Eastman Kodak shares now that the company has filed for bankruptcy in New York City.

Morgan Stanley (MS.N) lost money in the fourth quarter due to a special charge, but performed better than analysts had expected, sending its shares higher in premarket trading.

Samsung's $41 billion investment splurge should ring alarm bells at its competitors. It's a bold bet in a slowdown, if its bet pays off Samsung could lengthen its lead over the likes of Apple.

Bank of America Corp reported a fourth-quarter profit, reversing a year-earlier loss, boosted by one-time items and lower expenses for bad loans.

Asus Transformer Prime TF700T, the first Android tablet with NVIDIA's new quad-core Tegra 3 chip, which was expected to get released earlier this year, will hit the UK market only in June, confirms the official Asus UK blog.

Four key technology giants are to report earnings Thursday. Intel, IBM, Google and Microsoft results may provide keys to 2012 progress, while Apple comes next week.

Three years ago the Toylet was just a pipe-dream for developers at Japanese video game maker Sega, but now the urinal video game has been rolled out at pubs across the nation.

Minecraft, the popular video game, joined the protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) with a black out of the site Wednesday.

This is important for users awaiting untethered A5 Jailbreak.

Jailbreaking your iPhone for Siri can be a bad card to play.

The latest figures disclosed by Nielsen reveals Apple Inc.'s amazing performance in terms of grabbing smartphone market share in the fourth quarter of 2011. The credit for this leap should be attributed to the iPhone 4S which was launched in October, opine experts.

Federal authorities announced at a press conference on Wednesday that seven individuals were brought up on insider trading charges as part of a five-year investigation conducted by the Justice Department.