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Steve Wozniak would consider returning to an active role at Apple, the company he co-founded, and believes the consumer electronics giant could afford to be more open than it is, he told Reuters.

XenoPort (NASDAQ: XNPT) and GlaxoSmithKline Plc (LON: GSK) said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Horizant, a treatment for restless legs syndrome (RLS) that the companies developed together.

Shares of Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOR) touched a new life-time high of $18.73 on Thursday. The company issued preliminary metrics for the first quarter. The positive results were reflected in the trading of Questcor stock that reached a new life-time high for third time during this week.

A shareholder with only $1,551 in stock has accused Cisco execs of misleading the market.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared a new device, manufactured by California-based ev3, to treat brain aneurysms without performing open surgery.

Dell is opening up a new research and development facility in Santa Clara, Calif.

A federal judge has ruled that Apple can go ahead with its suit against a maker of unlicensed accessories for iPhones and iPods.

Oppenheimer has upgraded shares of Broadcom to outperform from perform citing strong growth profile, management's stated efforts to pursue profitable growth, a more disciplined operating expense and compensation strategy.

Shares of Diamond Foods, Inc. (DMND) touched a new life-time high of $63.96 on Tuesday. The packaged food company said it agreed to buy Pringles business of Procter & Gamble Co. (PG) in a deal valued at $2.35 billion.

Shares of Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (QCOR) touched a new life-time high of $18.50 on Tuesday. The company issued preliminary metrics for the first quarter, whereby it projects a 115 percent first quarter surge in sales of its main drug H.P. Acthar Gel that is used to treat certain disorders with an inflammatory component.

Scandalous star, Charlie Sheen, is reportedly busy in a legal application seeking to trademark 22 of his famous catchphrases, which have also come to be dubbed Sheen-isms.

LOS ANGELES - Mad Men reruns will start streaming on Netflix in the United States on July 27, the video service and series producer Lionsgate said Tuesday.

Sir Richard Branson, chief executive of the Virgin media empire, has announced plans to send five vessels to the deepest parts of the ocean - a feat that has never been done before.

Google’s Gmail Motion prank on April Fool had left many in the tech world wondering why Google, or just anybody else, wouldn’t make it real. Now it has emerged that researchers at the University of Southern California have made it real by using Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect peripheral. They hacked into the Microsoft Kinect's motion-sensing technology and also used what they have called the Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit (FAAST) to create what Gmail brushed off as a prank.

Jefferies & Co. expects that shares of Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) will sell off modestly on Tuesday as investors contemplate another round of very conservative guidance from the company. The brokerage reiterated its buy rating on shares of Calix, while increasing its price target to $24.50 from $16.

The U.S. Department of Education has released comprehensive guidance for all schools, colleges and universities, explicitly stating for the first time that every school is bound under Title IX to protect its students from sexual violence on campus and address its effects if it happens.

Texas Instruments buys National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion; the latter's stock soars in after-hours trading.

The hacker collective Anonymous has posted a warning to Sony that it plans an attack of some kind as revenge for the legal action taken against another hacker who modified a PlayStation 3.

The Hollywood Reporter announced that the ex-governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, announced his return to the big screen Monday saying that a film version of his much-publicized cartoon project The Governator is in the works.

Shares of OmniVision's stock dropped this morning 9% to $32.93, reflecting fears that Apple's move to Sony will hurt OmniVision's bottom line.