Three days into January 2011 and some Apple (AAPL) iPhone users are still struggling with a glitch in the phone’s alarm function.
For a third consecutive day, iPhone alarms failed to go off, leading to users missing flights and arriving late at work …
Facebook raised a $500 million investment from investment bank Goldman Sachs Group (GS) and an unnamed Russian investor, according to The New York Times.
The deal values the social-networking site at $50 billion, more than companies including Yahoo I…
The country’s second-largest book retailer had been counting on a Christmas miracle to rescue it from deep financial doldrums. But the holiday season played Scrooge instead. Now, confronting a liquidity shortfall, a bankruptcy …
The new year’s first week will be busy. Due out on Friday is December’s umemployment rate, and the consensus is for it to drop to 9.7%. However, few expect real improvement until well into 2011. Also on tap: weekly and monthly …
China’s plans to cut exports of rare earth minerals — used in alternative energy technologies — has the rest of the world scrambling. In the U.S., the country’s first new rare-earth mine in more than a decade is set to reopen…