Some big challenges lie ahead for LivingSocial, the online marketplace known for its daily deals and discounted prices on restaurants, spas and local activities. But that's where the company's new chief executive, Gautam ...
Business
Dec 24, 2014
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California has received a spurt of federal funding to expand an earthquake warning system intended to provide enough time for trains to brake, utilities and factories to shut off gas lines, and people to dive under a table ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 15, 2014
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Japanese technology entrepreneur Ken Fukazawa was in San Francisco in March when his geeky friends told him about something awesome coming up in Los Angeles.
Business
Dec 4, 2014
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Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg help run Google, one of the world's best-known, most successful - and most controversial - companies. They've just published a new book, "How Google Works," a guide to managing what they ...
Business
Oct 30, 2014
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A physics institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has received a $65 million donation—the largest single gift in the university's history.
Other
Oct 30, 2014
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The more than 66,000 unaccompanied Central American immigrant children who have crossed the United States' southern border since October present the nation with a refugee crisis, not an immigration crisis, according to Pulitzer ...
Social Sciences
Sep 30, 2014
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As the number of U.S. casualties rose in Afghanistan, reporters filed more stories about the conflict and those articles grew increasingly negative about both the war effort and the military, according to a Penn State researcher. ...
Social Sciences
Sep 15, 2014
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California governor Jerry Brown said he will approve a ban on single-use plastic bags, in what would make the western US state the first to outlaw them.
Environment
Sep 5, 2014
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Following an unprecedented series of spinoffs by major US media companies, the print news industry now faces a rocky future without financial support from deep-pocketed parent firms.
Business
Aug 17, 2014
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Seeing little competition and questionable demand, Internet service providers have shrugged at spending the billions of dollars needed to boost U.S. Internet speeds to match other parts of the world.
Telecom
Aug 1, 2014
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