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On "Face the Nation," President Obama's senior campaign adviser Robert Gibbs defended the campaign's attacks on Bain Capital, the private equity firm Mitt Romney co-founded and led for more than a decade.

A videographer shoots the side of Facebook's Like Button logo displayed at the entrance of the Facebook Headquarters in Menlo Park, California as Facebook becomes a publicly traded company after completing its initial public offering on May 18, 2012 in california.

Sources have reportedly told UK gadget news outlet Pocket Lint that Facebook is considering launching their own web browser, and that the company is looking to acquire the developers of an established program as part of the process.

Popular designer dog clothing boutique Rockstar Puppy announces new additions of motorcycle dog carriers designed exclusively to fit motorcycles and scooters.

Looking at Silicon Valley's startup landscape, where Facebook just raised $16 billion in its initial public offering and newbies like Pinterest and Instagram have commanded soaring valuations, you'd think optimism would be running high among venture capitalists.

Amid the buildup to the Facebook IPO, serial entrepreneur Steve Blank was sounding an ominous warning to anyone who would listen.

For many years, Google has published a "Transparency Report" with the number of non-copyright-related takedown notices it receives from governments, police, courts, individuals and corporations.

This weekend we take a look at the windfall taxi drivers with automatic tip buttons on their credit card machines are reaping.

Painful because Booker, a rising Democratic star, is such a good guy. Amusing, because rarely are Americans treated to such premier seats in the political theater of truth and consequence.

Ever since Google unveiled its mobile computing project, dubbed Project Glass , the world has scrutinized every fleeting detail about the new wearable gadget.

Mitt Romney's campaign sees the time he spent at Bain Capital, the private equity firm he co-founded and ran for more than a decade, as a positive experience that highlights his leadership skills and his ability to turn around companies and create jobs.

This week, Ken Rudin and Ron Elving discuss Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker criticizing the president's tactics on Bain Capital, the Tea Party's goals in next week's Texas Senate primary, and general dysfunction in D.C. In other words, it's the Booker "Tea" Washington edition of the podcast.

Wow, this "Obama is hurting Wall Street's fee-fees" stuff just never gets old, does it? I swear the New York Times could devote whole sections to it : Last week, a few dozen hedge fund and investment executives arrived at the Park Avenue home of Hamilton E. James, president of the private equity firm Blackstone.

It may surprise you that there is a rapidly growing number of websites Google intentionally hides from you.

Quantum fluctuations in science, space and society, from quarks to Hubble and Mars.

While the salacious details of a sexual discrimination lawsuit against Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture capital firm has sparked plenty of buzz, experts say the suit ultimately isn't about sex, but money.

The number of Americans leaving home for vacation is expected to rise this year, but so are the prices of airline tickets, hotels and a myriad other things you'll need for your dream vacation.

This undated file photo provided by the Pacific Investment Management Co., shows Bill Gross, manager of the PIMCO Total Return Fund.

THE sky is the limit, it seems, for India's young Mr Pilot. As Australia waits for its national broadband network, he was outlining yesterday the mind-boggling speed and numbers of his country's leap into connectivity.

Yahoo beefed up its search offerings on Wednesday when it launched Axis, an HTML5-based browser app that delivers search results as page previews rather than as links.