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Samsung introduces free streaming radio service

NEW YORK -- Samsung on Friday unveiled a new free music service for its phones that it touts as a significant improvement from the apps already on the market.The South Korean gadget maker's Milk Music service, which launched in the U.S. on Friday, includes over 200 stations and 13 million ...

Tokyo bitcoin exchange files for bankruptcy

TOKYO -- The Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange in Tokyo filed for bankruptcy protection Friday and its chief executive said 850,000 bitcoins, worth several hundred million dollars, are unaccounted for.The exchange's CEO Mark Karpeles appeared before Japanese TV news cameras, bowing deeply. He said a ...

Zuckerberg has big dreams for WhatsApp and internet access

NEW YORK -- Mark Zuckerberg, known for his outsized ambitions for Facebook, is applying a similar long-term vision to bringing the Internet to the billons of people around the world who don't already have access.The 29-year-old CEO of Facebook Inc. discussed long-term plans for a world in which ...

Apple, Samsung fail to settle before March trial

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have failed to settle their latest patent dispute despite a daylong meeting between top Samsung executives and Apple CEO Tim Cook hosted by a mediator earlier this month.The companies detailed the lack of progress in a court filing ...

Comcast strikes deal to buy Time Warner Cable

LOS ANGELES -- With a single behemoth purchase, Comcast is creating a dominant force in American entertainment and presenting federal regulators with an equally outsized quandary: How should they handle a conglomerate that promises to improve cable TV and Internet service to millions of homes ...