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The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: pSivida, Alimera Sciences, Abiomed, Exceed Company, Allos Therapeutics, FX Energy, XOMA, Celgene, Dyax, and Marvell Technology Group.

Toyota has agreed to pay $10 million to settle legal claims from the family of a California state trooper and three relatives whose fatal car wreck helped spark the automaker's wide-ranging safety recall, lawyers said on Thursday.

(Corrects name of president to Akio Toyoda, not Ikio, and that testimony was in February, not April, in paragraph 7.)

Apple TV and Roku looking at a million connected TV devices sold; Google TV not looking as promising.

This time Google, in its journey of exploration, has sent its Nexus S to the near space to collect some interesting data about the sensors in Nexus S – GPS, gyroscope, accelerometer, and magnetometer, said a Google blog post.

The next-generation iPad, or iPad 2, is said to have a flat back, smaller bezel and a wide-range speaker.

The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Penford, Pacific Biosciences of California, Netlist, Micron Technology, Copano Energy, SMTC, Coldwater Creek, Avanir Pharmaceuticals, ChinaCast Education, Oncothyreon, and Gilead Sciences.

California-based start up Lookout Mobile Security, a provider of smartphone protection software, said it raised a further $19.5 million in funding led by Index Ventures.

Death sentences in the United States continued to decline with just 46 executions in 2010, down 12 percent compared to a year earlier.

A finger bone found in Siberia shows Neanderthals weren't the only ones we shared the Earth with.

After a San Francisco Bay Area resident became the first in the United States to receive the delivery of all electric Leaf, Nissan Motors on Wednesday carried out its first Leaf delivery in the Tennessee region.

The launch of Apple's iPad in April 2010 has been rated as one of the most notable business developments of the year by an eminent professor at the Harvard Business School.

The U.S. Latino population, which several decades ago was mostly concentrated in the Southwestern part of the country, is expected to show continued growth and geographic expansion in the 2010 Census report.

Intel Corp has won approval from the Federal Trade Commission for its proposed $7.68 billion acquisition of security specialist McAfee Inc, the chipmaker said.

Twelve Congressional seats will be shifting states in time for the 2012 elections, according to figures released today by the 2010 U.S. Census, and the most seats are coming to Texas..

The U.S. population jumped 9.7 percent over the past ten years, reaching almost 309-million people as of April 1, 2010, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Apple said it expects sales of its new Apple TV to top one million units later this week.

California-based start up Kno Inc. announced it has begun shipping its Linux-based touch screen educational tablet for students, letting them read textbooks, take notes and browse the Web.

Four people, including an executive from an expert networking firm, have been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in an operation seen as part of a widening probe into insider trading.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the departure of Mark Hurd as the chief Executive officer from Hewlett-Packard Co. (NASDAQ:HPQ) as part of its broad inquiry in to various claims, including insider trading by the former executive.

A chemical which, in high concentrations, is likely to cause cancer and irritates the respiratory system and skin has been found in tap water in 31 of 35 American cities, according to a new study.