Old friends reunite, rebound from recession
When the recession knocked Kathy Kotowski out of the job she held for 25 years, she decided it was time to become her own boss.
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Microsoft deal with AOL part of patent scramble
NEW YORK — AOL’s $1 billion deal to sell and license patents to Microsoft is another in a series of “Antiques Roadshow” moments in the technology world. Faded companies have been rummaging through their assets recently, and some of them have found musty old patents that turn out to be worth a great deal.
Apr 9 2012 | Posted in AP News | Read More »
Facebook buying photo-share app Instagram for $1B
NEW YORK — Facebook is spending $1 billion to buy the photo-sharing company Instagram in the social network’s largest acquisition ever.
Apr 9 2012 | Posted in AP News | Read More »
Tulsa police say shootings may have been revenge
TULSA, Okla. — Two men were arrested Sunday in a shooting rampage that left three people dead and terrorized Tulsa’s black community, and police said one suspect may have been trying to avenge his father’s shooting two years ago by a black man.
Apr 8 2012 | Posted in AP News | Read More »
Suspect in dismembering says he met woman online
URBANA (AP) — A man suspected of stabbing, suffocating and dismembering his girlfriend told a newspaper that he met her through Facebook while looking for new friends and that he met two of his alleged accomplices at a library just three days before the killing.
Apr 8 2012 | Posted in AP News | Read More »
In South Korea, US education means split families
COLUMBIA, Mo. — As American teenagers go, Sally Kim is pretty typical. She’s crazy about singer Bruno Mars and the Plain White T’s rock band, spends way too much time on Facebook and can’t wait to start college in the fall. Yet when it comes to that familiar bane of her fellow high school seniors — uncool parents — Kim has few worries. Hers are nearly 7,000 miles away in Seoul, South Korea. They sent their only child to live with relatives in Missouri a decade ago, when she was just 8.
Apr 1 2012 | Posted in AP News | Read More »
Foes of Ohio union law target new labor limits
COLUMBUS — The labor-backed organization behind a 2011 campaign against Ohio’s sweeping collective bargaining law said Monday it’s ready to unleash its army of volunteers, email contacts and social media followers against an emerging right-to-work initiative in the state.
Mar 12 2012 | Posted in AP News | Read More »
Gingrich targeting ‘Super Tuesday’ states
DALTON, Ga. — Plotting a comeback, Newt Gingrich looked beyond Tuesday’s Republican presidential primaries in Michigan and Arizona to the Southern voters he hopes will rejuvenate his struggling campaign once more, including in his home state.
Feb 28 2012 | Posted in AP News | Read More »