LONDON - Financial markets have been rocked Monday by fears that the U.S. government was heading for a shutdown and renewed political instability in Italy
ANCHORAGE, AK - A glitch in the Apple Maps app on newer iPhones and iPads guides people up to a runway at a major Alaska airport instead of sending them on the proper route to the terminal, an airport official said Wednesday
PLANO, TX - J.C. Penney Co., whose shares have been tumbling on worries about its business, says that it is pleased with its turnaround efforts so far.
WASHINGTON - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell 5,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 305,000, the second-lowest level in six years. Steady declines in applications show that very few companies are laying off workers.
BERLIN, Germany - The fingerprint-based security system used to unlock Apple's latest iPhone can be bypassed using a household printer and some wood glue, a German hacking group has claimed.
FORT WORTH, TX - US Airways and American Airlines are extending their merger deadline by a month to give themselves time for the antitrust trial scheduled for November.
NEW YORK - Microsoft Corp. is expected to announce new Surface tablet computers, including a version with a smaller screen to compete with Google's Nexus 7 and Apple's iPad Mini