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The companies which are expected to see active trade on Friday are: Bank of America, Advanced Micro Devices, Google, General Electric, Intuitive Surgical, Schlumberger, International Game Technology, Emulex and Capital One Financial.

Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin and YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim are investing $8 mln in Series A funding into Qwiki, a startup pioneering the information experience via on-the-fly transformation of data into rich media narratives

Students in 54 Miami-Dade County Public Schools in Florida are studying in virtual classrooms where core subjects are taught entirely on computers.

The United States warned China that if it didn't rein in its ally North Korea it would redeploy forces in Asia, the New York Times reported on Friday, as Pyongyang bowed to pressure and agreed to crisis talks.

HSBC Holdings Plc is laying off about 500 employees as it ends credit card customer service and collections work at a center in New Castle, Delaware.

For Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric (GE.N`), the 130 year-old American industrial behemoth, the financial crisis marked the end of the age of America's economic dominance.

Abdel Nur, a Guyanese national, has been sentenced by a U.S. district court judge to 15 years in prison for providing material support to a terrorist group that had conspired to attack John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York, by exploding fuel tanks and the fuel pipeline under the airport.

Blockbuster Inc. on Thursday received three more months to negotiate store leases with its landlords -- its second restructuring extension this week -- giving the video rental chain more time to try to reorganize its business.

One of the greatest, most popular and iconic rock-and-roll stars of all-time was of Indian descent – Freddie Mercury, the charismatic (some would sneer over-theatrical) lead singer of British music group Queen.

Organized crime - as embodied by the U.S. mafia - hasn't gone away and is a nationwide concern for businesses and consumers, the head of the FBI said on Thursday after over 100 mafia members and associates were arrested and charged with a wide-range of crimes.

Reports that some financial institutions have started to exit their gold positions have been circulating this week, says French bank and London bullion dealer Natixis in its latest commodity analysis. Physically-backed ETF trust funds shrank almost 1% this week on Natixis' data - the sharpest weekly drop since we started keeping records in 2008.

TerreStar Networks bankruptcy still has issues to untangle before a buyer comes in.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg warned that if the city of New York does not start tackling its budget deficit problems now, they could haunt the city for decades.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo may consider eliminating up to 15,000 state workers in a bid to reduce the state's $9 billion budget gap.

The leadership of the Roman Catholic Church is embroiled, once again, in a sexual abuse scandal or, more properly speaking, another aspect of the same sexual abuse scandal that has haunted the Church for over 20 years.

The FBI has arrested more than 100 suspected mobsters on Thursday.This FBI Mafia bust is the largest ever in New York's organized crime history.

Artists, designers, entertainers and philanthropists are joining forces for the second annual green auction, which last year raised over $2 million for environmental groups.

Silver prices could hit an incredible $120 in just three years, propelled by a physical shortage in the silver market and further momentum in economic recovery, CommodityOnline has reported citing a report by thesilvershortage.com.

The sixteenth international Dubai Shopping (DSF) Festival is all set to kick start at the Burj Khalifa, Dubai Creek Park, Global Village, and the Dubai Outlet Mall on Thursday.

The top after-market NYSE gainers on Wednesday are: Dillard's, Geo Group, Tetra Technologies, Lee Enterprises, Moneygram International, Equal Energy, Horizon Lines, Main Street Capital, Strategic Hotels & Resorts and American Oriental Bioengineering.

Google Inc. on Wednesday kicked off the fourth annual Doodle 4 Google contest, a competition that calls on K-12 students in the U.S. to think big and redesign Google's homepage logo, inspired by the theme 'What I'd like to do someday...'