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A federal judge on Friday struck down an effort to form a class action lawsuit to go after Apple, Google and five other technology companies for allegedly forming an illegal cartel to tamp down workers' wages and prevent the loss of their best engineers during a multiyear conspiracy broken up by government regulators.

Dutch banks say a cyberattack has affected their online services, but did not breach the security of customers' accounts.

Troubled electric car maker Fisker Automotive Inc. has laid off about three-fourths of the workers at its California headquarters as it struggles with financial and production problems.

Facebook Home, the new software that takes over the front screen of a smartphone, is a bit of a corporate home invasion. Facebook is essentially moving into Google's turf, taking advantage of software the search giant and competitor created.

Samsung Electronics Co. said its operating profit last quarter rose 53 percent over a year earlier, outpacing expectations for what's normally a slow time for consumer electronics sales.

Samsung Electronics Co. says its January-March operating profit rose 53 percent over a year earlier.

Ralph Whitworth was named Thursday as interim chairman of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s board after its chairman, Ray Lane, stepped down. Whitworth posted an open letter on the personnel changes, which included decisions by John Hammergren and Ken Thompson. They had been nearly ousted two weeks earlier at HP's annual meetings as shareholders are upset by a series of mistakes that have damaged the company's share price.

Hewlett-Packard Co. chairman Ray Lane is stepping down. The announcement Thursday comes two weeks after a near ousting by shareholders. Here are some biographical details on Lane.

With its new "Home" on Android gadgets, Facebook is trying to prove that a company doesn't have to make a smartphone or operating system to define how people interact with mobile technology. The audacious move will provide further insights into how pervasive Facebook has become, testing whether people want to be greeted with content from the social network every time they look at their phones.

Facebook is bringing your friends' photos, links and observations to your phone's home screen.

Hewlett-Packard Co. says board chairman Ray Lane is stepping down. The move comes two weeks after a near ousting by shareholders at the company's annual meeting. Here's a timeline of some key events in HP's history since it acquired the PC business.

Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairman Ray Lane is stepping down and two other board members are leaving in a shake-up spurred by disgruntled stockholders stung by the personal computer maker's downfall.

BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion says it is silencing its streaming music service barely two years after it launched.

T-Mobile USA's subscribers were more likely to stick with the company in the last three months, a welcome trend for a carrier that's struggling against larger competitors.

Facebook is unveiling a new experience for Android phones. The idea behind the new Home service is to bring content right to you, on the phone's home screen, rather than require you to check apps on the device.

Shares of Best Buy jumped on Thursday after it announced plans to create store-within-store kiosks for Samsung products - a vote of confidence from a major consumer electronics retailer that the brick-and-mortar format is still an important way to sell products.

"Arrested Development" will be reborn on Netflix on May 26.

Research firm Gartner says it expects worldwide PC, tablet and mobile phone shipments to reach 2.4 billion units this year, up 9 percent from 2012.

Philadelphia is getting ready for a supersized game of "Pong" - on the side of a skyscraper.

Capturing the unruly, ever-changing Internet is like trying to pin down a raging river.

Travel guru Arthur Frommer said Wednesday that he has reacquired rights to his travel guidebook brand from Google, and that he intends to resume publishing Frommer guidebooks.

The beloved but long-gone video game franchise "Thief" is sneaking into the next generation of video games.

Hackers apparently broke into at least two of North Korea's government-run online sites Thursday, as tensions rose on the Korean Peninsula.

Hackers have apparently disrupted North Korea's government-run Twitter account. The disruption comes at a time of rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

With its new "Home" on Android gadgets, Facebook aims to put its social network at the center of people's mobile experiences.

Intel CEO Paul Otellini received a pay package valued at $18.9 million last year as he prepared to retire, bowing out from a challenge posed by the growing popularity of mobile devices that have curtailed the demand for the company's personal computer chips.

The CamRanger is the wireless device photographers have been waiting a long time for and after one use I can say it was worth the wait.

Four months after acquiring "Star Wars" maker Lucasfilm, The Walt Disney Co. is shutting down video game production at subsidiary LucasArts and laying off staff as it focuses on the less-risky, less-expensive path of licensing its characters and stories to other developers.

Paperless Post has defied its original digital business model successfully once. Now the online invitation and greeting card startup is taking that defiance a step further.