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Ford Motor Company and Azure Dynamics have begun shipping the first Ford Transit Connect Electrics to early customers in North America and to the United Kingdom for a demonstration project.

Do those debt relief ads you see on the TV or the offers you get over the phone sound too good to be true?

Economy of California is expected to witness a slight pick up next year with a drop in unemployment rate, said a report on Tuesday.

Search giant Google could witness a rally in its stock price amid its leadership in search advertising market and soaring adoption of its Android operating system in smartphones and tablets.

Energy services company AGL Resources Inc. announced an agreement to acquire rival Nicor Inc. for about $2.4 billion in cash and stock, creating a leading natural gas distributor in the U.S.

Mark Cuban, CEO of HDNet, calls over the top video a complimentary service, not a replacement to cable or satellite.

A federal judge in California Court has ordered the destruction of genetically engineered sugar beets after finding that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) had likely violated federal law by allowing the plantation of the stecklings without analyzing the potential environmental impact.

The sixth annual UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders, compiled by the University's Graduate School of Management, shows that men still hold roughly nine out of every 10 highest-paid management and board positions in 400 of California's largest public companies.

Oleg Nikolaenko, a 23-year old Russian, has pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he is the mastermind behind a notorious botnet, dubbed Mega-D, that controlled a network of infected computers and generated some 10 billion spam e-mails daily, or a third of the world's total.

The global economic recovery is being led by large metropolitan cities accounting for about half of the global gross domestic product (GDP), said a report.

From hotel-style room service to massage therapy to magnificent views, hospitals are increasingly advertise their luxury services in a bid to gain market share, particularly those in competitive urban markets.

Disgraced Rep. Charles Bernard Rangel (D-N.Y.) has been censured by the U.S. House of Representatives for ethics violation but narrowly escaped expulsion.

Oppenheimer has lowered its fiscal 2011 earnings forecast for chip maker Qualcomm, saying that margins at the company's CDMA unit will decline to drive share gains.

After a long battle, Google has finally confessed to trespassing on a Pennsylvania family’s property to acquire data for its Street View service.

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood scribe Nikki Finke, the founder of the Deadline Hollywood news site, is in a trademark tangle with the operator of a website called Deadline Hollyweird.

Scientists found a form of bacteria that can use arsenic in its DNA, and uses the arsenic to metabolize and grow.

Applications for the jobless benefits in the U.S. rose more-than-expected for the week ended Nov. 27, after falling sharply to lowest levels since July 2008 in the previous week.

Armed with new researches and discoveries, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is back in the news again. While NASA promised to provide insights into its findings on astrobiology on Thursday, there have been several other developments at the agency this week.

Azim Premji, India’s third richest man and chairman of Wipro, India’s third largest software services company, will transfer 213 million equity shares, or about 8.6 percent of his stake, valued at 88.46 billion rupees ($2 billion), to a private trust controlled by him.

Graphics chip maker Nvidia unveiled its new graphics card - Nvidia NVS 300 -- for the enterprise sector that can support up to eight displays simultaneously while consuming minimal power, which is considered as a key factor in running multiple displays.

A U.S. district court jury has returned a verdict that business software maker SAP AG has stolen software from rival Oracle Corp. and must pay the latter $1.3 billion in damages.