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  AP: Pa. symphony seeks soloist via YouTube contest

  Thursday, Feb 9, 11:00 am

  Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra officials insist it's not "American Idol" meets Mozart. Read more...
  

• Groupon stock plunges on growth worries

  Thursday, Feb 9, 10:50 am

  Groupon had a lot to prove with its first earnings report as a public company. The 14 percent slide in its stock Thursday suggests investors wanted more. Read more...
  

• La Nina going away, but too late for Texas drought

  Thursday, Feb 9, 10:29 am

  Federal weather forecasters say the La Nina weather phenomenon that contributed to the southwestern U.S. drought is winding down. Read more...
  
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  Kodak to stop making cameras, digital frames

  Thursday, Feb 9, 8:09 am

  Eastman Kodak Co. said Thursday that it will stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames, marking the end of an era for the company that brought photography to the masses more than a century ago. Read more...
  

• Oracle to pay $1.9B for personnel software co.

  Thursday, Feb 9, 7:57 am

  Oracle is paying $1.9 billion for Taleo Corp., a company that helps businesses manage their employees. Read more...
  

• Romanian accused of hacking NASA-JPL computers

  Thursday, Feb 9, 5:24 am

  A federal grand jury has indicted a Romanian citizen on charges he hacked into 25 climate-research computers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. Read more...
  

• Life in Antarctic lake? It's everywhere else

  Wednesday, Feb 8, 11:01 pm

  If scientists find microbes in a frigid lake two miles beneath the thick ice of Antarctica, it will illustrate once again that somehow life finds a way to survive in the strangest and harshest places. Read more...
  

• Lenovo 3Q profit up by half, warns of disk supply

  Wednesday, Feb 8, 10:35 pm

  Lenovo Group Ltd., the world's second biggest personal computer maker, said Thursday that quarterly profit grew by more than half but warned hard drive costs would remain high amid a global shortage. Read more...
  
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  Mexico road project sets up fight over ruins

  Wednesday, Feb 8, 6:35 pm

  When neighbors in the hills east of Mexico City saw backhoes ripping up pre-Hispanic relics for a highway, they did something unexpected in a country where building projects often bulldoze through ruins: They launched protests to stop the digging and demanded an accounting of what is there. Read more...
  

• Facebook discloses details on bonuses

  Wednesday, Feb 8, 5:45 pm

  Facebook's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, are eligible for twice-a-year bonuses of up to 45 percent of their base salaries and other earnings, according to a Wednesday regulatory filing. Read more...
  
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  Unplanned 9/11 analysis links noise, whale stress

  Wednesday, Feb 8, 3:50 pm

  An ocean experiment that was accidentally conducted amid the shipping silence after Sept. 11 has shown the first link between underwater noise and stress in whales, researchers reported Wednesday. Read more...
  
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  Cisco beats estimates with 2Q earnings, sales

  Wednesday, Feb 8, 3:46 pm

  Cisco, the world's largest maker of computer networking equipment, on Wednesday said that its net income jumped 44 percent in the latest quarter as it continues to put last year's slump behind it. Read more...
  
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  In scientific coup, Russians reach Antarctic lake

  Wednesday, Feb 8, 3:13 pm

  Opening a scientific frontier miles under the Antarctic ice, Russian experts drilled down and finally reached the surface of a gigantic freshwater lake, an achievement the mission chief likened to placing a man on the moon. Read more...
  
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  Time Warner sees growth after Harry Potter movies

  Wednesday, Feb 8, 3:08 pm

  Time Warner Inc. got a boost from its movie studio and cable TV networks in the last three months of the year, and the company expects growth to continue in 2012 even with the end of its lucrative Harry Potter franchise. Read more...
  

• Lawsuit seeks to block Google's privacy changes

  Wednesday, Feb 8, 2:53 pm

  A consumer watchdog group is suing the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to prevent Google from making sweeping changes to its privacy policies next month. Read more...