Hindus want high-speed Internet access as a universal fundamental...

has added $5.2 million in a new financing, according to a report published late Thursday. With the financing, part of a planned $10 million Series B round led by new venture capital investor...

Bruker Corp. , plans to go public with an initial public offering in which the superconducting technology company is looking to raise approximately $100 million. According to the form filed with...

Twitter 's follow feature, according to reports. VentureBeat and the blog All Facebook report that the feature, being tested with a small number of people, gives subscribers notifications of new...

first announced in July . As part of the acquisition, Verenium’s pilot plant and demonstration-scale facility in Jennings, La., is now owned by BP. BP also takes over the Cambridge...

National Institutes of Health for research and development on drugs used to treat cancer. The company was awarded a competitive Phase I Small Business Innovation and Research grant for development...

announced that they are using a new Web-based system that will allow them to better coordinate fleet repairs and maintenance. Through a partnership with Virginia-based Decisiv Inc., Mack Trucks is...

Nanosys Inc. has opened a subsidiary in Korea to support its business in Asia. Palo Alto-based Nanosys uses nanotechnology to create materials with unique properties that enhance quality and...

has terminated its agreement to develop a potential brain cancer vaccine. Celldex said in a statement that Pfizer has decided that the program “is no longer a strategic priority”. The...

is giving more Spanish-language channel options to U-verse television customers in San Antonio and South Texas. The company has added 19 new Spanish-language channels to its AT&T U-verse TV...

Presbyterian SeniorCare topped this year's list of the 25 Largest Pittsburgh-area Elder Care Providers, with 3,193 area beds. The complete list of the 25 Largest Pittsburgh-area Elder Care...

BancVue Ltd. has acquired a credit portfolio that will more than double its client base. BancVue, founded in 2003, provides products, marketing and consulting to community financial institutions...

Apple launched iTunes 10 with Ping, a new music-oriented social network, on Wednesday. Within hours, the site fell victim to spammers looking to make a quick buck from Apple's unsuspecting 160...

VIENNA (AFP) – Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez was named World Press Freedom Hero by media watchdog IPI on Friday, for her defiance of press restrictions and her commitment to free speech in her...

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Google-owned videosharing website YouTube is expected to turn a profit this year on revenue of 450 million dollars, The New York Times reported Friday. The newspaper, in...

It's the kind of ironic story that news editors find irresistible. Apple makes big announcement about a social network for music lovers. When music lovers go hunting for the service, they end up...

Behold the King of music, circa 2010. We aren't talking about Elvis here. Apple's iPod still reigns supreme. And judging from the impressive new crop of iPods announced this week along with...

Sophos notes on its blog, a barrage of spam links are hitting the music-themed social network. Many of these links are to offers promising free iPad, iPhone or iPod touch devices. Apple...

Mashable ) -- Facebook is apparently testing a new subscription feature that would allow users to receive alerts any time a specific friend takes certain actions on the social...

NEW YORK—The new iPhone application mTrip is a travel guide and then some: It uses the latest in smart phone technology to make it easier to stay on track in a foreign locale. But isn't getting...

A federal appeals court has reinstated Wisconsin's controversial minimum markup law on gasoline. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled in favor of the Wisconsin Petroleum Marketers &...

Workers are struggling to pick up a larger share of the nation's expanding health care tab, and the burden now includes a bigger chunk of health insurance premium costs, too. The cost of family...

A longtime Minneapolis police officer from Oak Park Heights, who served as a school resource officer, has been accused of sexually abusing three young female relatives for more than a decade. On...

Mayor Chris Coleman has selected a trusted political adviser with prosecutorial experience to be St. Paul's next city attorney, he said Thursday. Sara Grewing, 33, who currently serves as Coleman's...

A psychological evaluation found the man who rammed his car into Mankato's Walmart in March didn't understand what he was doing, but a judge said Thursday he is granting a prosecutor's request for a...

GRANDIN, N.D. — The Traill County sheriff's office says a 16-year-old Minnesota boy was injured in an apparent accidental shooting at a rural home in eastern North Dakota. Sheriff Mike Crocker...

Remote users are on the increase worldwide but companies are not fully investing on security, says Sean Wainer Country Manager at Check Point Software Technologies. There is a worldwide increase in...

Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson has appointed two Kansas City-area representatives to the 16-member board for the Kansas Health Information Exchange Inc. Dr. Helen Connors, executive director of...

is expanding the company’s fiber-optic network in South Texas. The Houston-based provider of telecommunications and data center services will add transport and bandwidth service in McAllen,...

Reuters reports that the Mountain View search giant is in talks with music labels on plans for an online store and cloud service that would let users play songs without downloading them onto their...

Gov. Mark Parkinson appointed three Wichitans to serve as members of the Kansas Health Information Exchange Inc., a statewide data-sharing organization. Parkinson appointed 15 members total. Kansas...

clickjacking worms or other forms of aggressive malware, experts say. But if you're looking for links to bogus surveys promising free iPhones, iPads, and other assorted iDevices, then Ping in...

latest numbers from Net Applications, iOS is the third most popular platform on the Internet, surpassing Linux and Android combined. In August 2010, Android had a 0.20% market share, Linux was at...

When Microsoft launched its Bing decision engine in 2009, it may have held out hope for an alliance with AOL. In fact, there were even rumors that Microsoft would buy out the struggling Internet...

Some Facebook Places users are still uneasy about privacy on the service Other users find that when employed with caution, the new feature can be useful "It's a great way to get to know your...

Ping is certainly an inspired idea: Top-seller charts and "Staff Picks" don't suffice when it comes to finding music to match our personal preferences. iTunes' "Genius" feature...

FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2010 file photo originally released by Zynga, rapper Snoop Dogg blows up an armored truck to commemorate the 10 millionth visitor to Zynga's Mafia Wars:Las Vegas in Las...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Worries about spying by the U.S. and Israel spurred plans to sharply limit BlackBerry services in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai's police chief said in comments...

FARGO, N.D. — Sugar beet cooperatives in the Red River Valley of eastern North Dakota and northwest Minnesota say yields this year could set records. That means farmers might not be allowed to...

CAMDEN, N.J. — The Campbell Soup Co. reported a larger fourth-quarter net income today, a time when the temperature rises and its soup sales traditionally drop. Sales did fall by 1 percent,...

WASHINGTON — Private employers hired more workers over the past three month than first thought, lifting hopes for the weak economy ahead of the Labor Day weekend. But the unemployment rate rose...

Denny Hecker after his appearance in federal court in Minneapolis Thursday February 11, 2010. (Pioneer Press: Chris Polydoroff) Bankrupt auto mogul Denny Hecker could be headed for jail next week. ...

GRAND LAKE, Colo. — A toddler was injured Thursday after being trampled by a moose in north-central Colorado. The extent of the child's injuries wasn't immediately clear, but the Grand County...

Residents in a Grant neighborhood were evacuated Thursday night after a car hit a pipeline and ignited blowing natural gas, the Washington County sheriff's office said. Just before midnight,...

An influx of new students has caused the University of Minnesota Duluth and the College of St. Scholastica to use a motel for housing this year. UMD has 122 students at the Best Western Edgewater,...

Two people who were stopped for speeding near New Ulm Tuesday are now facing felony charges for allegedly running a check scam that spanned across several state lines. A Minnesota State Patrol...

Taylor Scholze won grand champion at the Minnesota State Fair. And now her piggy's gone to market. The 282-pound market gilt brought home $4,700 — more than enough to cover its expenses and...

A 54-year-old West Allis man whose father was threatening to cut him out of his will was charged in Waukesha County Thursday with lacing the older man's drinks with a concoction of windshield wiper...

BALTIC, S.D. — Rubber bracelets aimed at raising awareness about breast cancer and emblazoned with "I love boobies" are raising eyebrows among school officials in South Dakota. This week,...

in the external storage market during the second quarter, research firm IDC says in a report released Friday. EMC, which has about 700 employees in Research Triangle Park, posted revenue of nearly...