SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Yahoo's board of directors has reportedly approved a $1.1 billion purchase of the popular blogging site Tumblr, Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer's boldest move to date to revitalize the struggling Internet giant.
Six-year-...
When the magnitude 9 earthquake struck Japan more than two years ago, there were 1,200 global positioning system stations recording ocean floor movement.
None was linked to that nation's tsunami warning system, which underestimated the full ...
SAN FRANCISCO--Yahoo's board of directors has approved a $1.1 billion cash acquisition of blogging site Tumblr.
It's the biggest and riskiest deal yet for Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer, who is trying to make pioneering Internet company ...
WASHINGTON -- Go to a busy street in your community and count the next 25 adolescents who walk, bike, skateboard, stroll or saunter past. Odds are that two of those 25 kids (8.3 percent to be exact) would own up to having experienced 14 or more ...
SAN DIEGO -- In the ocean off Coronado, a Navy team has discovered a relic worthy of display in a military museum: a torpedo of the kind deployed in the late 19th century, considered a technological marvel in its day.
But don't look for the ...
LOS ANGELES -- It's 1.7 miles long. Its surface is covered in a sticky black substance similar to the gunk at the bottom of a barbecue. If it impacted Earth it would probably result in global extinction. Good thing it is just making a flyby.
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