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Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hewlett-Packard is still scrambling to meet the growing demand for more versatile and less expensive mobile devices as a slump in its personal computer sales deepens, but...
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Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans pushed through a bill Wednesday to bypass the president to speed approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas. Democrats criticized the...
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Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina's president has announced increases of as much as 35 percent in cash handouts to the poor, students, pregnant women and retirees. President Cristina...
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Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013
DETROIT (AP) — Tesla Motors, which makes a highly acclaimed $70,000 electric car, has paid off a startup loan from the U.S. government nine years early. The Palo Alto, Calif., company said it...
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Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013
MIXED BAG: Hewlett-Packard Co.'s latest quarterly report showed the company's earnings are holding up better than management and analysts anticipated, even as the world's largest personal computer...
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Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013
CEO pay has been going in one direction for the past three years: up. The head of a typical large public company made $9.7 million in 2012, a 6.5 percent increase from a year earlier that was...
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Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island's minimum wage would go up 25 cents to $8 per hour next year under legislation approved Wednesday by the state Senate. The state's minimum wage is now...
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Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — In line with decades of opposition to casinos, the House turned aside lobbying by the governor and arguments that New Hampshire should compete with Massachusetts for...
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Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013
CONNERSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Three former executive vice presidents of a company that planned to build high-tech police cars at an eastern Indiana factory have sued the corporation for more than...
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Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013
SWARTHMORE, Pa. (AP) — Student activists at more than 200 colleges are trying a new tactic in hopes of slowing the pace of climate change: They are asking their schools to stop investing in...
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