Police find 'person of interest' in Yale slaying NEW HAVEN, Conn. _ Police investigating the slaying of a Yale graduate student zeroed in on a "person of interest" Tuesday after keeping tabs on an ever-tightening circle of people connected to the medical lab where her body was found stuffed behind a wall. more Colo. man denies terrorist ties after NYC raids A Colorado man who's the target of a terrorism probe that led to several police raids in New York City denies he did anything wrong. more Police again search home in Calif. kidnap case Police investigating two child abductions in the 1980s searched the Northern California home of the couple charged with kidnapping a girl and holding her captive for 18 years. more AP NewsAlert Suburban Chicago police say former Blagojevich fundraiser committed suicide. more UN probe finds evidence Israel, Palestinians committed "war crimes" during Gaza conflict. more
Blockbuster may close as many as 960 US stores Blockbuster Inc. may close as many as 960 stores by the end of next year, shedding more dead weight as the struggling video rental chain tries to reverse its losses and fend off rapidly growing rivals Netflix Inc. and Redbox. more Rejection of BofA settlement a setback for SEC A judge's condemnation of the Securities and Exchange Commission in rejecting its $33 million settlement with Bank of America over bonuses at Merrill Lynch dealt a stinging rebuke to an agency seeking to mend its image after its failure to detect Bernard Madoff's fraud scheme. more Treasury lending report sees another decline Lending by the largest banks that received government bailout support declined for the sixth consecutive month in July, the government said Tuesday. more Schwarzenegger signs order boosting clean power Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an executive order Tuesday giving California the nation's most aggressive alternative energy standards, requiring utilities to get a third of their power from renewable sources by 2020. more Adobe to buy Omniture for $1.8B; 3Q profit slides Adobe Systems Inc. said Tuesday it will buy Web analytic software company Omniture Inc. for about $1.8 billion, giving the maker of content-creation software a way to let marketers measure the effectiveness of such content. more
|
FDA approves new swine flu vaccine The Food and Drug Administration approved the new swine flu vaccine Tuesday, a long-anticipated step as the government works to get vaccinations under way next month. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the vaccine's approval to Congress _ and said she hopes to get the first limited supplies distributed early in October. more Studies: Swine flu spreads long after fever stops When the coughing stops is probably a better sign of when a swine flu patient is no longer contagious, experts said after seeing new research that suggests the virus can still spread many days after a fever goes away. more Exercise can extend survival even in 'oldest old' Even in the "oldest old," a little physical activity goes a long way, extending life by at least a few years for people in their mid- to late 80s, Israeli researchers found. more Who needs which flu vaccine? Who needs vaccine against regular winter flu, and who should be first in line for the swine flu shot? There's lots of overlap. more Early flu season _ what you need to know Flu season's in full swing two months early this year _ and nearly all the cases are the new swine flu strain that so far is targeting mostly children and younger adults. more
|
Oracle, Sun link up for new product; HP snubbed With the fate of its proposed $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc. uncertain amid antitrust scrutiny, Oracle Corp. is moving ahead with a new product incorporating both companies' technology, and snubbing Hewlett-Packard Co. in the process. more Adobe to buy Omniture for $1.8B; 3Q profit slides Adobe Systems Inc. said Tuesday it will buy Web analytic software company Omniture Inc. for about $1.8 billion, giving the maker of content-creation software a way to let marketers measure the effectiveness of such content. more On the Call: Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen Adobe Systems Inc. is planning to buy Omniture Inc., a Web analytic software company, for about $1.8 billion. The deal, announced Tuesday, comes nearly four years after Adobe paid $3.4 billion for Macromedia Inc. _ the company behind now well-known Adobe products such the Flash online animation and video software. Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen discussed Adobe's plans for Omniture during the company's fiscal third-quarter earnings conference call. more Coming to mobile phones: Wall Street Journal fees The Wall Street Journal plans to start charging as much as $2 a week to read its stories on BlackBerrys, iPhones and other mobile devices, expanding the newspaper's effort to become less dependent on its print edition. more After outcry, T-Mobile drops paper billing fee T-Mobile USA has dropped a plan to begin charging customers $1.50 per month to get a paper copy of their bill in the mail. more
|
