Apple is alone in e-books pricing lawsuit; Publishers agreed to settlement

It appears as if some serious problem is going to be created for Apple as it’s trial on ebook price fixing charges is filed by the U.S. government begins on Monday in New York. Apple will have to alone deal with the charges put across by the U.S. Department of Justice in a non-jury trial.

Working moms are breadwinners for 40% US households: Pew Research Center report

American working mothers have earned a new distinction of being the primary breadwinners in a record 40 percent of households with children. The milestone is said to be changing the face of modern families in America where earlier the numbers just used to be about 11 percent in 1960. The report was released by Pew

Hundreds evacuate homes as Wildfire reaches California coast

A wind-driven wildfire is spreading by the California coast north of Los Angeles prompting hundreds of people to evacuate their homes. Evacuations have also been ordered in case of university campus including several farm buildings and recreational vehicles are also under threat as the wildfire also surrounded them. Source: Reuters, LATimes, CBS, Bloomberg, CBS 8

2 year old Kentucky child dead after 5 year old brother shoots her

A Kentucky child was accidentally shot dead by her brother as he played with a gun given to him as a gift, police said in a statement. Caroline Starks, aged 2 years was killed when her 5-year-old sibling fired the .22-caliber rifle at their Burkesville home at 1 p.m. on Tuesday. Even the mother of

Elon Musk sparks rumors with his tweet; each character of his tweet has helped gain Tesla stock $2.2Mn

  We are assuming that Elon Musk knows how to make boring things seem interesting. Thursday morning, he tweeted, “Announcement of new @TeslaMotors strategy tomorrow. Tesla owners will like this.” Following the Tweet, everyone started speculating on Twitter. People started asking questions like, What would it be? Direct sales over the Internet? Solar cars? Cheaper

Seattle shooting, 5 dead including suspect

The calm night sky was filled with gunfire noise at an apartment complex in a city south of Seattle and five people were shot to death. The list of dead also includes a suspect who was shot by arriving officers, police said early Monday. The Police officers reached the crime scene at 9:30 p.m. PDT 

Second suspect in Boston Marathon Blasts arrested by police

It has been four days to Boston Marathon blasts that led to the killing of three and injured 176. On Friday night, the people of Watertown, a Boston suburb, cheered for everyone in a police cruiser, SWAT car and unmarked car for capturing one of two brothers involved in the blasts. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was

Ga. Gunman held firefighters hostage on gunpoint, SWAT kills gunman and rescues firefighters

Five firefighters answered one medical emergency in a north Atlanta neighborhood on Wednesday. Authorities told that they encountered an armed man who demanded that his house cable and power be turned back on which was in foreclosure. Eventually, the firefighters were held for hours out of which only one firefighter was allowed to leave. As

Associated Press breaks news of authorities in possession of murder video in Mississippi police HQ

Concerned authorities are learnt to have a video from a police interrogation room. The video features a murder suspect who shot a detective and killed him before killing himself with the detective’s gun. The news came to light after a person with knowledge of the investigation revealed it on Saturday. The supposed suspect is Jeremy

Wholesale prices in US increases 0.2% due to higher food prices

  Wholesale prices in US have risen after a period of four months making food and pharmaceuticals dearer. The increase of 0.2 percent in producer-price index was reported by the report of Labor Department in Washington. In the median estimate survey conducted by Bloomberg assigned 74 economists projected 0.3 percent increase. Core producer costs excluding