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Pakistan blocks Twitter over contentious tweets
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter on Sunday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials.... Read More | View Original Article
APNewsBreak: 22 states join campaign finance fight
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending.... Read More | View Original Article
Day after historic IPO, Facebook's Zuckerberg weds
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- For Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, it was quite a week - from birthday, to IPO, to I DO.... Read More | View Original Article
Google gets China OK for Motorola deal
NEW YORK (AP) -- Authorities in China have approved Google Inc.'s bid to buy phone maker Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the $12.5 billion deal to close early next week.... Read More | View Original Article
Fire risk prompts recall of nearly 87,000 Jeeps
DETROIT (AP) -- Chrysler is recalling nearly 87,000 Jeep Wranglers in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere due to a risk of fires.... Read More | View Original Article
Is GOP trying to sabotage economy to hurt Obama?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Are Republican lawmakers deliberately stalling the economic recovery to hurt President Barack Obama's re-election chances? Some top Democrats say yes, pointing to GOP stances on the debt limit and other issues that they claim are causing unnecessary economic anxiety and retarding growth.... Read More | View Original Article
America expands once again _ digitally, this time
NEW YORK (AP) -- The metaphor is an easy one, overused and perhaps even a bit overwrought. We are forging forward into a digital frontier, leaving convention behind, traveling without guides into an uncharted virtual land where progress and profits are forever around the next bend.... Read More | View Original Article
Electric car network gets first test in Israel
ROSH HAAYIN, Israel (AP) -- Israeli entrepreneur Shai Agassi has begun rolling out the world's first nationwide electric car network. Now, will the drivers come?... Read More | View Original Article
Obama sees 'emerging consensus' on economic fix
CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) -- Confronting an economic crisis that threatens them all, President Barack Obama and leaders of other world powers on Saturday declared that their governments must both spark growth and cut the debt that has crippled the European continent and put investors worldwide on edge.... Read More | View Original Article
Sudden wealth part of Silicon Valley's everyday
MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) -- In Silicon Valley, where sudden wealth is hardly something new and CEOs favor hoodies over bespoke blazers, Facebook's IPO on Friday didn't bring everyday life to a halt.... Read More | View Original Article
5 Questions for GM North America chief Mark Reuss
DETROIT (AP) -- Mark Reuss has arguably the most important job at General Motors.... Read More | View Original Article
A debate: Should you jump in on Facebook debut?
EDITOR'S NOTE - Facebook began selling stock to the public Friday in the most talked-about market debut in years. The stock closed 23 cents above its initial offering price, at $38.23. Two Associated Press business writers debate whether the stock is a smart buy.... Read More | View Original Article
UK surveillance program could expose private lives
LONDON (AP) -- British officials have given their word: "We won't read your emails."... Read More | View Original Article
FACEBOOK IPO LIVE: The social network goes public
It's Facebook's big day.... Read More | View Original Article
Report: HSBC says regulations may prompt UK exit
LONDON (AP) -- HSBC may decide to sell its U.K. retail banking operations, depending on the impact of yet to be announced new banking regulations, published reports say.... Read More | View Original Article
