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Data centers: Google expands to Asia

Data centers are planned for Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore. They will be Google's first data centers in Asia.

President Obama sells jobs plan in Silicon Valley

President Obama: was to appear Monday at a town hall-style event hosted by the career-focused social networking site LinkedIn to pitch his nearly $450 billion jobs proposal as he travels through California scooping up campaign cash.

Insider trading: Consultant James Fleishman convicted

Insider trading is the downfall of yet another Wall Street trader, as hedge fund consultant James Fleishman is convicted of insider trading for putting clients in touch with consultants at publicly traded companies.

iBIO of Steve Jobs

Tatooine for real? Scientists confirm planet orbiting two suns.

Tatooine is the mythical home of Luke Skywalker. Now, scientists have identified a planet in a binary system 200 light-years away, although the planet is more like Saturn in mass and makeup.

Chris Tucker: Why he left, and why he's back on stage

Chris Tucker returned to the stage Aug. 13 after four years away from the spotlight. But Chris Tucker is far from the first comedian to take a sabbatical.

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Internet stocks: Google takes off

Internet stocks are doing well for Google. The company's internet stocks rose from $5.71 a share a year ago to $7.68 a share at the end of the second quarter.

Home solar gets $280 million boost from Google

Home solar is target of Google's largest clean-energy investment yet. Under home solar program, homeowners would get free rooftop panels, paying set amount for the power.

Letters to the Editor – Weekly Issue of June 6, 2011

Readers write in to decry the treatment of Kentucky Derby horses, rebut Paul Ryan's defense of his budget plan, and spotlight Pakistan's wasted resources on its border 'battle' with India.

EBay sues Google over stolen secrets, poached employees

EBay sues Google over mobile payment technology: PayPal's parent company, eBay, is suing Google after Google allegedly poached eBay executives in an effort to better understand PayPal's mobile payment strategy.

SETI puts E.T. on hold

SETI has temporarily halted one of its chief alien-hunting tools, the Allen Telescope Array, citing lack of funding.

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Coming web IPOs: the Renaissance roundup

LinkedIn, Zillow, and HomeAway are among the web-based companies that have recently filed for IPOs

Epsilon security breach: 5 signs it's only the tip of the iceberg

This week millions of e-mail addresses were reported stolen from Epsilon, a firm that supplies e-mail marketing to BestBuy, Disney, and many others. Here are five more emerging targets for precision attacks:

Smartphones help Girl Scouts sell cookies

Smartphones with an attachment for swiping credit cards help a Girl Scout troop in Ohio sell cookies to customers who don't want to pay cash

The new cyber arms race

Tomorrow's wars will be fought not just with guns, but with the click of a mouse half a world away that will unleash weaponized software that could take out everything from the power grid to a chemical plant.

Red dwarf star systems: Promising for life, but watch the apocalyptic flares

Red dwarf stars have several virtues that make them potential homes for Earth-like planets, but a new study suggests they also produce the largest solar flares ever seen.

Arsenic microbe in Mono Lake may reshape hunt for extraterrestrial life

Scientists have found a microbe in Mono Lake, California, that uses arsenic as a fundamental building block, changing the definition of 'life as we know it' and the search for extraterrestrial life.

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How to get Adobe Flash on your iPhone and iPad

Adobe Flash is officially restricted on Apple iOS software. But an upcoming app provides a workaround without jailbreaking the iPhone or iPad.

After computer security breaches, Google tightens privacy leash on employees

After several computer security breached that allowed Google employees to capitalize on their administrative access rights to users personal data Google is taking steps to reduce user risk.

Google's online-ad and Android sales outperform Wall Street expectations

Google's 3Q report proved Wall Street wrong in their below average expectations for Android and online-ad sales.

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Google celebrates birthday with cake

Google rings in its birthday with a cake doodle. How old is Google anyway?

How reliable is personal DNA testing?

DNA testing deliver uncertainty. Faulty interpretation and incomplete genetic research are cited in direct-to-consumer tests.