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Shares of Hewlett-Packard rose about 3 percent Friday after the No. 1 maker of PCs decided not to drop out of the business.

Apple's founder liked to feel special, and he devised a way to avoid attaching California plates to his Mercedes.

A team of computer security researchers recently developed a proof-of-concept 'spy' app for the iPhone 4 capable of tracking typing on a nearby keyboard using the device's native accelerometer and gyroscope. Even a basic, widely available mobile device such as the iPhone is sensitive enough to enable the app to pick up data such as whether the keystrokes come from the left or right side of the keyboard and the relative distance between punched keys.

With the upcoming trailer of Grand Theft Auto V being released Nov. 5, rumors put the game's setting in Los Angeles.

Joseph Sellers, an attorney representing the female Wal-Mart employees, said as many as 15 class actions will be filed targeting the retail giant's regional areas.

Facebook announced it is building its first European server farm in Lulea, a Swedish town about 62 miles south of the Arctic Circle. This will be its first data center outside of the United States.

Occidental Petroleum Corp expects to have drilled 195 shale oil wells in its home state of California by the end of this year, although it would like to drill far more if the permitting process allowed it.

The Trojans host the Cardinal at the Los Angeles Coliseum.

Authorities appealed to the public for information Tuesday after a nine-month investigation on the death of former Penthouse model, Anneka Vasta, who was found washed up on a Camp Pendleton, Calif. beach. Joggers found the model's naked body with a broken neck and back on the Marine training beach on Jan. 4, 2011. Police are still trying to establish whether Vasta's death was a suicide, accidental death or foul play. Her family vehemently denies that Vasta could have committed suic...

IBM has announced that, for the first time in its history, it will have a woman, Virginia Ginni Rometty, run the company.

Hewlett-Packard will remain the world’s No. 1 PC maker. The company decided not to spin off its Personal Systems Group after all.

Zahau's family does believe Rebecca would have taken her own life

Republican members of the deficit reduction super committee presented a plan that would shrink the budget gap by $2.2 trillion over a decade exclusively through spending cuts.

Could Carson Palmer and Terrell Owens be reunited in Oakland with the Raiders?

Days before Groupon’s expected IPO, Google introduced major changes to its Google Offers to make it a bigger juggernaut in the daily deals market.

Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said she plans to personally monitor investigations of police misconduct following a raid on Occupy Oakland protesters on Tuesday night.

Cutting Medicaid by 5 percent would cost U.S. states $14 billion and trigger job losses in the tens of thousands by depressing spending by states, hospitals, nursing homes, drug companies and others, a study said on Wednesday.

California political leaders chose a site near the headquarters of Solyndra to kick off hearings on how the state's growing cleantech industry can proceed in the wake of that solar company's dramatic collapse.

Firefox signed a partnership with Microsoft to release a version of its Web browser with Bing as the default search engine. Is Google in trouble?

The suspect in the Yorba Linda homicide has been arrested and identified.

Rejuvenated Australian golfer Jason Day has set himself a target of reaching world number one in the next five years following his brilliant season on the U.S. PGA Tour, a far cry from his struggles to get out of bed earlier this year when plagued by mental demons and illness.