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Friday marks 13 weeks since the first public trading in shares of Facebook at $42. Now it's near $21.

Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), the No. 1 search engine, said it has devised a voice-enabled app for Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhones that will challenge the Siri personal assistant. The move comes two months after Google acquired Motorola Mobility Holdings, one of the top makers of smartphones.

Companies are using tablets more and more, and the launch of Windows 8 and the Microsoft Surface tablet will build on the trend. Is everything as rosy as it seems?

Internet Archive, a non-profit project established to act as online library for digital information has to date promoted nearly a petabyte data of content via the controversial file-sharing site, BitTorrent.

The Martian crater where Curiosity rover landed Sunday looks strikingly similar to the Mojave Desert in California, said scientists on Aug. 8.

Technology may have a good second half of 2012 after all, despite all the fears of economic collapse, lower demand for PCs and other worries. After Computer Sciences reported better-than-expected results on Wednesday, Hewlett-Packard said third-quarter results would be stronger, too.

Another employee of Infosys, India's leading IT player, has filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging harassment for his role in bringing to light the visa and fraud issue.

The top after-market Nasdaq gainers Wednesday were Complete Genomics Inc, Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Inc, Silicon Graphics International Corp, Salix Pharmaceuticals Ltd and Photronics Inc.The top after-market Nasdaq losers were Boingo Wireless Inc, SunPower Corporation, Monster Beverage Corporation, Career Education Corporation and Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc.

The surviving members of The Monkees announced dates Wednesday for their 2012 Reunion Tour, six months after the death of lead singer Davy Jones. Find out here if the band is playing in a city near you.

Prescription drugs kill between about 100,000 people in the world each year, but marijuana, medical or not, has caused absolutely zero deaths. Weed, pot, ganja, or whatever you want to call it, cannabis has actually been a favorable treatment in the treatment of about 200 different medical conditions. Here are 10 ways marijuana can improve your health.

Three days into its mission, the Mars Science Laboratory, known as Curiosity, is continuing to dazzle scientists and specialists with its first data reports from the red plant. Still more technology companies have acknowledged their participation in the NASA project

A 4.1 earthquake hit near Yorba Linda, Calif., at 9:33 a.m. The quake is the latest in a series of earthquakes to hit the Southern California area.

Although reported on Monday that Robert Pattinson would be making his first TV appearance post Kristen Stewart breakup on "Good Morning America" Wednesday, August 15, the "Twilight" hunk will actually appear on John Stewart's "Daily Show" two days earlier.

It’s been 15 years since The Monkees have gone on tour. According to Rolling Stone, the band is set to begin playing again, with surviving members Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork. The tour will start in California and end in New York, at the Beacon Theatre.

Flat broke Nadya Suleman, better known as "Octomom," created a lot of buzz recently by turning to a new porn and stripping career and according to her, it was the Orange County (Calif.) Child Protective Services that encouraged her to do so.

Local campaigners have compared the potential impact of the mine's effluent to BP's Gulf of Mexico disaster and the Exxon Valdez oil spill, saying the region's fish stocks will become unsellable if the project goes ahead.

Peregrine Semiconductor, which has sold more than a billion high-frequency chips to the mobile industry in the past five years, raised $77 million in its IPO on Tuesday and plans to start trading Wednesday, the latest technology IPO since the Facebook fiasco.

Rob Kardashian is following in the footsteps of his famous father, the late Robert Kardashian, Sr., after the 25-year-old former "Dancing With The Stars" contestant tweeted that he's headed to law school at the University of Southern California.

Nearly two weeks after AuthenTec Inc. (Nasdaq: AUTH) advised the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission it had agreed to be acquired by Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, for $350 million, Apple still hasn’t made an announcement nor filed its own SEC report.

A 60 percent surge since June in the U.S. price of corn has reignited the on-again-off-again debate over using corn to produce ethyl alcohol, also known as ethanol, as a motor fuel additive.

Richmond, Calif., a city of about 104,000 residents, is home to heavy industry and is familiar with such incidents. Accidents can be potentially hazardous to surrounding communities. Sulfur dioxide, sulfur trioxide, hydrogen sulfide have serious health effects in high atmospheric concentrations.