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From a question via Facebook as part of the ongoing series, “Ask CBS News,” Katie Couric asks senior business correspondent Anthony Mason if the media’s negative portrayal of the economy has contributed to the crisis.
With the help of young volunteers from troubled backgrounds, full-time veterinarian Rob Teti has created an animal farm sanctuary which acts as a haven for all. Seth Doane reports from Avondale, Pa.
Families of soldiers serving at war often worry that they will one day face that dreaded knock at the door. Terry McCarthy reports on the spouses back home of the “Thundering Third” battalion.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A Florida inmate has filed a lawsuit seeking $500,000 in damages from three men who caught him red-handed with a stolen bicycle, claiming they roughed him up, according to a newspaper report. Michael Dupree is serving a 12-year sentence for burglary and cocaine possession stemming from a 2007 break-in of a van in St. Petersburg, Fla. Dupree allegedly stole the bicycle locked inside and was apprehended after the owner, Anthony McKoy, ...
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Google Inc. has spent $1.1 billion during the first half of the year buying up 22 companies, with more than half of the amount going toward its recently finished acquisition of mobile ad service AdMob. The financial breakdown was part of a second-quarter report the Internet search leader filed Friday. Google’s shopping spree has been focused on startups so small that it hasn’t been required to specify the price it paid in each deal.
WASHINGTON – Motorola Inc., the maker of cell phones and other telecommunications equipment, spent $880,000 in the first quarter to lobby the federal government on laws such as those that sought to discourage electronics manufacturers from using minerals from rebel-held mines in the Congo, according to a disclosure report. Motorola also lobbied the federal government on legislation involving public-safety communications networks and patent reform, according to the report filed on July 20.
There are 225,000 applications in the iPhone store, 60,000 in Google’s Android store. But what hasn’t been created yet? The original 2007 iPhone had only one screenful of software icons, believe it or not. You could not install new ones of your own. It took a whole year for Apple to open the App Store, making it possible for the masses to download and install new applications — or programs — in the process, creating a whole new gadget category. ...
In what appears to be a competitive move against emerging video sites, YouTube on Thursday announced an unexpected improvement to its video platform. The Google-owned company is increasing the upload limit from 10 minutes to 15 minutes. Joshua Siegel, product manager for YouTube’s Upload and Video Management department, stated the company made the change because “without question, the number-one requested feature by our creators is to upload videos longer than 10 minutes.” The Copyright Connection The upload limit for non-partners ...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told industry analysts Thursday that the software giant is working in cooperation with device manufacturers to develop a customized version of Windows 7 for tablets. Although Apple has created an entirely new tablet market without Microsoft’s participation, Ballmer noted that much the same thing happened with netbooks. Microsoft went from having no Windows penetration on netbooks in the early days to seeing Windows become “the guiding piece of software” in a market subsegment that now accounts ...