April 2010

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone revealed on Wednesday that the popular micro-blogging source has over 105 million registered users. The site is now adding 300,000 new users a day to its service, which launched back in 2006. The site receives…

China's economy began 2010 at a cracking pace, logging surprisingly strong 11.9 percent year-on-year growth in the first quarter that supports the case for tighter monetary policy to avert the risk of overheating. The rate of expansion,…

Oil prices rose above $86 a barrel Thursday in Asia amid signs global crude demand is growing. Benchmark crude for May delivery was up 25 cents to $86.09 a barrel at midday Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile…

A California university president said Wednesday a portion of a contract between a school foundation and Sarah Palin for an upcoming speech was stolen from a campus administrator's office last week. California State University,…

For the first time in decades, researchers are reporting a significant drop worldwide in the number of women dying each year from pregnancy and childbirth, to about 342,900 in 2008 from 526,300 in 1980. The findings, published in the…

African countries are expected to generate about 200 billion dollars in revenue from oil production in the next 10 years as new oilfields open up throughout the Gulf of Guinea. Oil was expected to generate the largest inflow of revenue in…

Users hate them. They're a massive headache to network administrators. But IT departments often mandate them nonetheless: regularly scheduled password changes — part of a policy intended to increase computer security. Now new research…

Republican leaders are struggling to maintain a unified opposition to the White House's financial-regulation revamp, which is emerging as the next big test of the GOP's ability to counter the administration's agenda. Democrats, assuming…

Ghana’s inflation has dropped to 13.3% in June from a February rate of 14.2%, making this month the ninth consecutive time the country’s inflation has fallen and the lowest in 23 consecutive months. The downward trend in the country’s…

A United States pharmaceutical company, Emerging World Pharma Inc., is setting up a facility in the Brong Ahafo regional capital, Sunyani to produce generic pharmaceutical products, just when an Indian company, Eldar Pharmaceuticals had…