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From cushy, blood-red headphones to MRI scanners, here are the products that have earned Philips a coveted spot among Apple and BMW in the design world.

A hail-Mary legal play to ban the sale of iPads in Shanghai -- a city of 23 million with three Apple stores -- has failed, according to a Reuters report that crossed the wires early Thursday morning.

U.S. stocks were headed to open slightly higher Thursday, on the back of strong European economic data and ahead of a report on the U.S. job market.

"Keith Reemtsma was chairman of the department of surgery at Columbia University when I came to New York. He had served in Korea, and the lore is that he's the person behind the character Hawkeye in M*A*S*H. He made me chief resident and mentored me on how to be a leader. He said the hard part of leadership was keeping smart people from killing each other -- you had to make everyone feel special. People at my level were ambitious, vying for positions. He'd take your strength and find a place you could emphasize it, so it wouldn't seem as if you were competing directly with one another.

The United States Army is looking at hydrogen fuel cell vehicles hoping that sometime in the near future they'll play some important military roles, maybe even on the battlefield.

What do flaming baked Alaska cupcakes, a sci-fi floating hot tub, and a hammock dog bed have in common? They're all items that hundreds of users have "Fancy'd" on a site called The Fancy.

What do flaming baked Alaska cupcakes, a sci-fi floating hot tub, and a hammock dog bed have in common? They're all items that hundreds of users have "Fancy'd" on a site called The Fancy.

This is part three of a week-long series on the cell phone capacity crunch.

This is part three of a week-long series on the cell phone capacity crunch.

Five years after the housing bubble burst, America's wealthiest families are now losing their homes to foreclosure at a faster rate than the rest of the country -- and many of them are doing so voluntarily.

Since the economy dropped off a cliff in 2008, members of Congress have not exactly been shy about casting blame for no-or-slow growth on a variety of bureaucrats, outside institutions and Wall Street power players.

Howard Wial is a fellow for the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program.

They may dress better than average, but they usually don't invest that way: Last year 79% of large-cap fund managers trailed the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, says Morningstar -- the worst showing since 1997.

Tensions with Iran are adding at least 30 cents to a gallon of gasoline in the United States, and experts say gas prices have only just begun to rise.

The White House on Thursday unveiled its proposed "Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights," a voluntary act that it called a "comprehensive blueprint" for future legislation. The full text of the bill is below. The Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights applies to personal data, which means any data, including aggregations of data, that is linkable to a specific individual. Personal data may include data that is linked to a specific computer or other device. The Administration supports Federal legislation that adopts the principles of the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. Even without legislation, the Administration will convene multistakeholder processes that use these rights as a template for codes of conduct that are enforceable by the Federal Trade Commission. These elements -- the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, codes of conduct, and strong enforcement -- will increase interoperability between the U.S. consumer data privacy framework and those of our international partners.

The Obama administration on Thursday plans to unveil a new online bill of rights intended to protect consumers' privacy when they surf the Web.

The Obama administration on Thursday plans to unveil a new online bill of rights intended to protect consumers' privacy when they surf the Web.

What's the cost of a $4 billion gamble gone wrong?

What's the cost of a $4 billion gamble gone wrong?

Mike Daisey has released the script of his controversial monologue on the Internet