IBT Staff Reporter

Shares of Google Inc surged 14 percent on Friday, a day after blockbuster results and early signs of success in newer initiatives revived hopes that the Internet giant is getting back on the growth track.

The ongoing NBA lockout has gone on for more than two weeks now, and players around the league are considering playing overseas while the labor dispute continues. Golden State Warriors star point guard Stephen Curry could be one of those players, playing basketball in China.

HTC, which had been accused of infringing 10 Apple patents, said that it had been found to infringe just two, HTC said in a statement on Friday.

But between planking and owling there was a brief trend of cone-ing (or coning) in June. This is the act of eating soft ice cream upside down at a fast food drive-through, videotaping the server's bewildered reaction, then posting it online for everyone to see.

Rupert Murdoch said sorry on Friday to victims of criminal phone hacking by one of his tabloids after confidante Rebekah Brooks quit as head of the British newspaper arm of his News Corp media empire.

A new study claimed that Google has become a part of everyday life. The study went on to say that the search engine is changing the way we think and what we choose to remember. The rise of Google and social media has not only molded our society into an insecurity-maintaining, cold-hearted machine but has also influenced our memory, which were were previously thought to be rather fixed.

Coffee and tea can save you from MRSA, a deadly staph infection.

The TNT drama starring Ray Romano has been cancelled.

Barclays Plc is appealing a judge's ruling that handed the trustee for Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc's brokerage arm about $4 billion related to the rushed purchase of the failed investment bank's North American business.

Standard & Poor's on Friday put a broad range of financial companies on negative credit watch, warning they could all be downgraded soon if the United States has its credit rating cut.

Bad driving is a disease and it can be cured, according to one doctor in the People's Republic of China.

Apple Inc should deliver yet another bumper quarter, but some investors are holding out for a monstrous second half when the new iPhone hits and a new online content service takes wing.

In Eva Longoria's latest film Without Men, she plays a leader in charge of a Latin American village where all its men have been forcibly recruited by guerilla revolutionaries.

26-year-old convenience store clerk Sammary Blackwell, who looks similar to Casey Anthony, was attacked in Oklohoma by a woman who thought that it was Anthony. Ironically, Blackwell's daughter is named Caylee.

Could the iCloud have an impact on NAND flash? One analyst thinks it might.

Owling is the new trend after planking, just days old, which involves people posing for pictures crouching like an owl in unusual places.

Public schools in California will be required to teach students about the contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans starting Jan. 1 after Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday signed the controversial bill.

Brooklyn boy Leiby Kletzky was found dead by police this week.

Large predators are being killed off- everything from lions to sharks, provoking an extinction of the animals that are holding the equilibrium of the Earth's ecosystem in place.

Google's blowout quarter led the Nasdaq higher on Friday but mounting uncertainty about the government's ability to reach a debt-reduction deal may keep investors at bay in the coming week.

Eight European banks are not strong enough to withstand a prolonged recession and need to raise 2.5 billion euros in capital, an industry health check aimed at reviving investor confidence showed on Friday.

Google's blowout quarter led the Nasdaq higher on Friday, but mounting uncertainty about the government's ability to reach a debt-reduction deal may keep investors at bay in the coming week.

A judge removed himself from the case in a defamation lawsuit against Casey Anthony today. Anthony, the Florida woman accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter using duct tape and chloroform, was acquitted on homicide charges July 5 and will be released July 17.

Citigroup Inc's second-quarter profit jumped 24 percent as the bank lost less money than expected on bad U.S. loans.

Large predators are dying off- everything from sharks to lions, provoking an extinction of the animals that are holding the equilibrium of the Earth's ecosystem in place.

Shares of Google Inc surged as much as 13.5 percent on Friday, a day after blockbuster results and signs of success in mobile and social networking revived hopes the Internet titan was getting back on a growth track.

Apple Inc has plugged a hole in the software that runs iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch music players that could allow hackers to take remote control of those devices.

Euro zone leaders will meet in Brussels on July 21 to discuss a second bailout package for Greece and the financial stability of the euro area, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said on Friday.

The Centerbridge hedge fund does not think Lehman Brothers Holding Inc's plan to exit bankruptcy can be confirmed by a judge and it plans to mount a fight against it, according to court documents.