LENOIR, N.C. -- Google announced Friday a $600 million expansion of its Lenoir data center, bringing the company's total investment in North Carolina to $1.2 billion.The announcement came little more than six years after the California-based Internet search giant broke ground at its 215-acre ...
Buyout specialist Blackstone Group LP is dropping its effort to acquire Dell, and billionaire investor Carl Icahn is reportedly unlikely to follow through on his preliminary acquisition offer, as suitors digest studies showing a staggering decline in PC sales.The Wall Street Journal said Icahn ...
Will a song be worth more than 140 characters to Twitter users?After testing out a new music discovery service with celebrities such as Ryan Seacrest, Blake Shelton, Ne-Yo and Moby, Twitter is clicking "play" on Twitter Music.The free service became available Thursday at ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Looking for a career change, Ken Shimizu decided he wanted to be a software developer, but he didn't want to go back to college to study computer science.Instead, he quit his job and spent his savings to enroll at Dev Bootcamp, a new San Francisco school that teaches students ...
PHILADELPHIA -- The online education company known as Coursera has racked up gaudy numbers within a year of its launch: 3.1 million users from around the world have signed up for an ever-expanding menu of courses offered for free from 62 leading colleges and universities.On Friday, hundreds of ...
MENLO PARK, Calif. -- With its new "Home" on Android gadgets, Facebook aims to put its social network at the center of people's mobile experiences.If users choose to download Facebook's Home software starting on April 12, the social network will become the hub of their Android smartphones. A ...
WASHINGTON -- The Securities and Exchange Commission will allow public companies to make significant announcements on Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites provided they alert investors which sites they intend to use.The decision announced Tuesday allows companies to use social media ...
Online retailers Walmart.com and Amazon.com are looking to extend their reach by putting delivery lockers in drugstores and convenience stores, and in chain stores like Staples, to meet customers' demands for faster access to online orders.E-commerce giant Amazon has quietly been testing ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- The two new suitors pursuing Dell have a message for Wall Street: Don't allow Michael Dell to hoard potential gains from the PC maker's expansion into more profitable technology products and services.Competing bidders Carl Icahn and the Blackstone Group LP are wooing Dell ...
WASHINGTON -- Sending people into space is a tough way to make a buck. Not only is it risky, but it's hard to turn a profit given the sky-high cost of rocketing into the upper atmosphere or beyond.But recently, a handful of entrepreneurs, marketers and, yes, even rocket scientists, have ...
