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Amgen Inc. said it would delay reporting first-quarter earnings until April 23 to include data from an anxiously anticipated study of its Aranesp anemia drug among patients with small-cell lung cancer.

Facebook.com is getting a face-lift to make the popular website's social networking features easier to find and use.

A German tourist has a passion for the city's architecture. His website is the ultimate portrait of buildings that most locals take for granted.

ELEVEN years ago, a German tourist named Martin Schall arrived in Los Angeles, armed with a guidebook, a camera and a traveler's vision of the city. He was at the end of a long road trip along Route 66 and had parked his rental car on the Sunset Strip, close to the House of Blues.

Analysts say the media giant's legal battles over YouTube probably led it to hire Google's rival.

NEW YORK — Viacom Inc.'s advertising deal with Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday showed that Google Inc.'s legal battles with media giants might be opening doors for its competitors.

Search companies and trademark experts are taking notice of the state's latest experiment in trying to control the global Internet.

SALT LAKE CITY — Google Inc. is objecting to a Utah law that limits the common practice of keyword-triggered advertising, where competitors can show their ads alongside a search query or with a news story on another brand.

Officials expand effort begun in 2004 to nurture ideas that will benefit all sectors of society, rather than just focusing on engineering.

University of Southern California officials say they have a new way of developing creative ideas that their students and faculty dream up. School officials announced Wednesday that USC is the first major research university with an institute that acts as a university-wide, centralized hub for nurturing inventions as well as inventors.

The transition must be on schedule, lawmakers say, so safety services can use freed-up airwaves.

WASHINGTON — The switch to digital television from analog should not be delayed because it is crucial that emergency services have access to freed-up airwaves to communicate, U.S. lawmakers said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission is proposing a $100,000 fine each against Amp'd Mobile Inc., a Los Angeles-based wireless phone company aimed at the youth market, and two other companies for failing to protect consumers' personal calling records from thieves.

McClatchy Co., the nation's third-largest newspaper publisher, will begin providing international news coverage and commentary to online powerhouse Yahoo Inc. in a partnership that further underscores the media industry's shifting balance of power.

SAN FRANCISCO — Intel Corp. on Wednesday unveiled a new lineup of processors slated for production this year that promise a performance boost and energy savings because of the transition to a new manufacturing technology.

Google Inc. will pay its top executives performance bonuses of as much as $4.5 million each this year.

The shift from analog to the new format in 2009 might leave many viewers in the dark.

WASHINGTON — For millions of Americans, the digital revolution might not be televised.

It signs deals with several banks that will allow cellphone users to pay bills using handsets.

ORLANDO, FLA. — AT&T Inc. said Tuesday that it had taken a step toward the long-promised notion of phones replacing credit cards, checks and cash by signing agreements with Wachovia Corp. and several other banks.

The company will pay $100 million for illegally sending night-vision technology to countries.

WASHINGTON — Diversified industrial manufacturer ITT Corp. has agreed to pay a $100-million penalty for illegally sending classified night-vision technology used by the U.S. military to China, Singapore and Britain, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday that it planned to offer unlimited e-mail storage to its roughly quarter of a billion users, starting in May.