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As the city invests in tech, Councilwoman Leticia James wishes that Mayor Bloomberg would to more to make sure Brooklyn doesn't get left out

Bruno Iksil, the trader behind the $2-billion-and-counting loss at New York-based banking giant JPMorgan Chase and Co. (NYSE: JPM) that has been the talk of New York and Washington for the past few days, will be leaving the bank within the year, the New York Times' Dealbook blog reported Wednesday.

As Google rolls out more new changes to their search engine, the Menlo Park, Calif. based company has released the details to their latest search innovation -- Knowledge Graph. The new Google search feature will reportedly work with its users to fully understand what they mean by their search entry, according to Mashable.

The New York Giants unveiled their Super Bowl ring on Wednesday, finally getting the bling to match the Lombardi Trophy they earned after winning Super Bowl XLVI. The franchise is also giving fans a chance to try out the ring themselves with a new smartphone app.

A day before Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network holds its initial public offering, its 33 underwriters boosted the number of shares for sale by 25 percent, potentially valuing the deal as high as $19 billion.

Britney Spears cannot seem to catch a break, even after signing a $15 million X Factor deal. The pop starlet attended a press conference to announce her upcoming role as judge on Simon Cowell's X Factor on Monday and photographers immediately zoomed in on her red carpet appearance - chewing gum and flaunting bloodied fingernails.

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The New York Giants unveiled their Super Bowl ring design on Wednesday.

A 67-year-old man named Robert Gene White died while getting lap dances at an El Paso strip club after he reportedly had a heart attack at the Red Parrot strip club.

The growing possibilities of an imminent Greek exit from the single currency bloc could drive up the value of safe-haven currencies such as the U.S. dollar and the British pound, while hurting a number of emerging Asian currencies that are sensitive to investors' risk appetite.

If the Sir Richard Branson ice cubes aren't enough, Virgin Atlantic is giving travelers another reason to choose their airline - cell phone use has been cleared for takeoff by the company. The downfall? It will cost you.

Rohan Marley, whose personal information ranges from son of reggae music legend Bob Marley to Lauryn Hill's ex to former football player to coffee entrepreneur, is engaged to Brazilian model Isabeli Fontana in a wedding to be held in Ethiopia.

Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic went on trial Wednesday on 11 counts of war crimes, including genocide during Bosnian war in the 1990s, which saw the Srebrenica massacre and the bloody siege of Sarajevo.

Commodities prices fell Wednesday as investors, preparing for the fallout from an expected Greek exit from the euro zone, abandoned industrial and precious metals for the safety of German and U.S. government debt.

The United States foreign aid program that sends billions of dollars to African countries for HIV treatment and prevention has cut the number of people dying for any reason in those nations, a new study suggests.

A study released on Tuesday by the University of Buffalo's Shale Resources and Society Institute suggests that Pennsylvania is getting better at regulating natural gas drilling, and that the state has a regulatory model that New York could implement as it considers opening its own doors to high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing.

New York?s suburban and upstate voters Tuesday are determining the future of their property tax rates and could also weigh on the standing of Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Tim Tebow has improved his passing mechanics.

The U.S. Justice Department has launched an investigation of a huge trading loss incurred by JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), the Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday.

Nassau County Republicans are going to have try again: Mark Schimel, estranged husband of Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel, a three-term Democrat, has declined the Republican nomination to oppose her.

In a joint presentation to both Republican and Democratic party platform committees, the American Petroleum Institute, the largest petroleum industry-backed trade group, released a series of recommendations it would like to see implemented by the next presidential administration.