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William Henry Bill Gates III, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, laid out his vision for the impact that broadening access to vaccines can have on the world.

The International Monetary Fund announced it will not be reimbursing Dominique Strauss-Kahn for a luxury hotel suite where he allegedly sexually assaulted a chambermaid

Facebook has spent more than $6,600 lobbying California state officials to negate the Social Networking Privacy Act which will impose penalty on social networking sites for displaying personal details of children under 18.

Insurance conglomerate AIG had been named the least reputable company in the United States by the annual Reputation Report from market researcher Harris Interactive.

Honeywell International and BorgWarner have settled their dispute over the patent-infringement lawsuit brought by BorgWamer over a titanium wheel used in engine turbochargers.

Software giant Google is the most reputable company in the United States, according to the annual ‘Reputation Report’ from market researcher Harris Interactive.

Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt. Ltd said that it will resume normal production from May 20, a fortnight ahead of schedule after the troubled car maker had decided to cut its production by 70 percent in the wake of parts shortage arising out of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the company said in a statement today.

Federal safety officials from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are investigating consumer complaints that the Ford Freestyle crossover vehicles are unexpectedly lunging forward.

It has been 10 years since Apple opened its two retail stores on May 19, 2001. There are big expectations on how the world's most valuable brand will celebrate this coming weekend's bash, possibly introducing a new product or revamping the store displays including storefront design that showcases their iPad 2 and MacBook Airs. Planning for the event is top secret thus far, involving restricted electronic communication among staff, password encrypted data, and black curtains.

Benchmark Capital has upgraded shares of Stec, Inc. to buy from hold.

Los Angeles will be a U.S. leader in electric vehicle adoption, according to a new study published by the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation.

LimeWire, a major peer-to-peer (P2P) company that was accused by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) of being a platform for illegal music transfers, has been let off lightly as it settled the dispute at $105 million, far short of $1.4 billion that was first sought by the plaintiffs.

Following a 5 year legal standoff between peer-to-peer (P2P) boss LimeWire and the Recording Industry Association of America (R.I.A.A.), the two sides have agreed to settle the music piracy dispute for $105 million.

Facebook became the world's fastest growing brand in the Brandz Top 100 ranking, published by Millward Brown. With its brand valued at $19.1 billion, Facebook also entered in to the top 100 most valuable global brands in 2011 at number 35. It is also the first time the Facebook has appeared at all in Milward Brown's ranking, now in its sixth year.

Magnificent Hawaii private residence will have an opening bid of $9.5 million

There is a full blown bed bug epidemic happening all across America and it just seems to get worse with each passing year. For cities such as New York and Philadelphia which are at the epicenter of the outbreak, bed bugs have become an important political issue.

The Sony PlayStation Network (PSN) outage has angered and frustrated Sony fans into rushing to retail stores and trading in their PlayStation3 (PS3) consoles for rival Microsoft Xbox 360 systems. Reports from retail stores indicated that more customers have been trading in their entire PlayStation3 set including both console and games for the Xbox 360, mostly for Call of Duty online gamers.

According to the reports, Jennifer Aniston has finally sealed her first deal on New York real estatea – a West Village penthouse formerly owned by celebrity stylist Sally Hershberger.

Jennifer Aniston has reportedly closed on a penthouse in Manhattan for $4.95 million in the name of her beloved pet dog.

The Sri Lankan born Hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam, the billionaire manager of the Galleon hedge fund, was found guilty on Wednesday on all counts in the largest hedge fund insider trading case in the United States history.

Search engine behemoth Google's self drive car is likely to hit street in Nevada if a pair of legislation get through the state legislature.

Here is a list of the country’s 10 best cities for bachelors, according to a recent survey by Rent.com.

Will Smith has parked his two luxury trailers on the street of lower Manhattan where he is currently filming his upcoming movie “Men in Black III,” with his $25k per month rental only a few blocks away.

Top hedge fund founder and stock trader Raj Rajaratnam was 'expressionless' in a New York federal court on Wednesday as a jury verdict was read finding him guilty of 14 charges, including insider trading.

Audi of America announced Tuesday that it will release a new Audi Roadside App for iPhone users, as well as for Android and some BlackBerry devices.

GM has announced that it will invest $2 billion in two years from now, creating or retaining 4,000 jobs.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Skype CEO Tony Bates jointly announced on Tuesday that the two companies have entered into a deal under which Microsoft will acquire Skype for $8.5 billion. Apart from creating value and emerging as a strategically important player in the voice and chat connectivity segment of the exploding web business, Skype also won real big time suitors like Microsoft, Google and Facebook. Perhaps the rivals' attempt to outbid each other and own Skype resulted in the Estoni...

Shut down after attack from hacker, Sony said Tuesday it will restore its PlayStation Network by the end of May.

After three weeks of the PlayStation Network outage, which was caused by hackers last month, Sony has announced that it will take a few more days until the service is restored. The company plans to test the system's strength fully before restoring the online network which offers gaming, streaming movies, and other services.