AP - Higher costs for energy and food last year pushed inflation up by the largest amount in 17 years, even though prices generally remained tame outside of those two areas. Meanwhile, industrial output was flat in December, more evidence of a significantmore...
AP - IN THE HEADLINES ... Republicans focusing on South Carolina as next stand, Democrats on Nevada ... Romney's Michigan GOP presidential win helped by party, Bush loyalists.more...
Reuters - JPMorgan Chase & Co said on
Wednesday quarterly profit fell a worse-than-expected 24
percent as the No. 3 U.S. bank lost $1.3 billion on risky
mortgages and set aside more money for rising losses on
home-equity loans.more...
AP - Sun Microsystems Inc. has agreed to buy open-source software maker MySQL AB for $1 billion, beefing up the server maker's database offerings with a company whose technology is used by some of the world's biggest Web sites.more...
Reuters - The makers of word game Scrabble have
asked Facebook to remove its popular online version
"Scrabulous," which they say infringes their copyright.more...
PC World - Apple has released its first security updates of the new year, fixing bugs in its QuickTime media player and iPhone and iPod touch devices.more...
Reuters - Amdocs , a software maker long
known for its billing technologies sold to telecoms providers,
is launching on Wednesday new products designed to help its
clients reap more sales from new digital businesses.more...
