Award-winning journalist Michael Hastings dies
| |Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013
LOS ANGELES — Michael Hastings, the war correspondent whose unflinching reporting from Afghanistan led to the resignation of a top U.S. army general, has died in a car accident in Los Angeles, according to his employer and family.
Icahn changes tack, seeks $16B Dell stock buyback
|Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013
NEW YORK — Activist investor Carl Icahn on Tuesday proposed a $16 billion share buyback in his latest effort to thwart Dell Inc. founder Michael Dell's effort to take the struggling computer maker private.
A year on, Assange stays put in Ecuadorean Embassy
| |Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013
LONDON — A year ago, Julian Assange skipped out on a date with Swedish justice. Rather than comply with a British order that he go to the Scandinavian country for questioning about sex crimes allegations, the WikiLeaks founder took refuge in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.
DreamWorks says TV revenue to hit $200M by 2015
| |Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013
LOS ANGELES — DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., the studio behind "Shrek" and "Kung Fu Panda," said Tuesday that a new deal to provide original TV shows to Netflix will help it double the revenue it gets from TV shows to $200 million by 2015.
News Summary: HP moves Bradley to strategy post
|Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013
THE MOVE: Hewlett-Packard Co. named executive Todd Bradley to a new position in charge of the company's strategy. Bradley will work with CEO Meg Whitman to improve HP's business in China and extend relationships with important partners worldwide.
Yahoo discloses number of US govt data requests
|Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Yahoo is the latest company to disclose how many requests for user data it has received from U.S. government agencies, putting the number between 12,000 and 13,000 in the six months that ended on May 31.
Stuntwoman sues News Corp. over alleged phone hack
| |Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013
LOS ANGELES — A woman who worked as a stunt double for Angelina Jolie sued Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. in Los Angeles on Tuesday, claiming she's a victim of a phone hacking scheme to obtain information about the actress.
Dreamworks strikes TV show deal in Germany
|Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013
Dreamworks Animation, the studio that is home to Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and Madagascar, is making its way to Germany television under a deal with a children's television operator.
Spotify's Top 10 most viral tracks
|Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013
The following list represents the most viral tracks on Spotify, based on the number of people who shared it divided by the number who listened to it, from Monday, June 10, to Sunday, June 16, via Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter and Spotify.
Hewlett-Packard puts Bradley in strategy role
| |Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013
NEW YORK — Todd Bradley, the head of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s printing and personal computer business, has been appointed to a new position in charge of the company's strategy with a focus on China, the company said Tuesday.
Spotify's Top 10 most streamed tracks
|Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013
The following list represents the top streamed tracks on Spotify from Monday, June 10, to Sunday, June 16:
US video game retail sales fall 25 percent in May
|Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013
NEW YORK — U.S. retail sales of video games, hardware and accessories declined 25 percent in May as demand for aging game consoles continued to fade and fewer new games launched compared with last year, according to market researcher NPD Group.
Kabel Deutschland shares rise on takeover interest
|Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013
BERLIN — Shares in Germany's biggest cable operator are up after Kabel Deutschland received a preliminary takeover proposal from U.S. firm Liberty Global.
With Samsung, Jay-Z's business continues to boom
| |Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013
NEW YORK — He really is more than a businessman.
Facebook CEO meets SKorean president
|Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has met South Korean President Park Geun-hye in Seoul to discuss ways to stimulate entrepreneurship and venture firms in Asia's fourth-largest economy.
Chinese supercomputer named as world's fastest
|Monday, Jun. 17, 2013
BEIJING — A Chinese university has built the world's fastest supercomputer, almost doubling the speed of the U.S. machine that previously claimed the top spot and underlining China's rise as a science and technology powerhouse.
A look at original shows by online video services
|Monday, Jun. 17, 2013
LOS ANGELES — Netflix's deal to air 300 hours of original television programming from Dreamworks Animation in a multi-year deal is part of a trend in which online streaming video services including Amazon and Hulu are increasingly producing original shows.
How Britain spies on friends and rivals alike
| |Monday, Jun. 17, 2013
LONDON — Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's leaks to the Guardian newspaper have thrown back the curtain on the world of diplomatic espionage, revealing - in explicit detail - how British spies monitor enemies and allies alike. So what does GCHQ, Britain's eavesdropping agency, actually do? And how does it do it? And is any of this really all that surprising?
Google settles suit, clears way for stock split
| |Monday, Jun. 17, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO — Google has resolved a shareholder lawsuit blocking a long-delayed stock split, clearing the way for the Internet search leader to issue a new class of non-voting shares later this year.
News Summary: Apple details gov't data requests
|Monday, Jun. 17, 2013
NEW YORK — DISCLOSURE: Apple Inc. said it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer data for the six months ended in May.
