NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Texas Instruments is eliminating 1,700 jobs, as it winds down its mobile processor business to focus on chips for more profitable markets like cars and home appliances. Texas Instruments said in September it would halt costly investments in the increasingly competitive smartphone and tablet chip business, leading Wall Street to speculate that part of...
R.A. Dickey, David Price win Cy Young awards
Label: SportsNEW YORK (AP) — R.A. Dickey languished in the minors for 14 years, bouncing from one team to another before finally perfecting that perplexing knuckleball that made him a major league star.David Price was the top pick in the draft and an ace by age 25, throwing 98 mph heat with a left arm live enough to make the most hardened scout sing.Raised only 34 miles apart in central Tennessee, Dickey and Price...
“Twilight Saga” ends with movie love letter to fans
Label: Lifestyle
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – “Twilight” fans bid an emotional farewell this week to Bella, Edward and Jacob in “Breaking Dawn-Part 2,” the romantic book and movie franchise that ignited a pop culture infatuation with blood-sucking vampires and werewolves.The tumultuous love triangle between human girl Bella Swan, vampire Edward Cullen and werewolf Jacob Black,...
Booze calories nearly equal soda's for US adults
Label: HealthNEW YORK (AP) — Americans get too many calories from soda. But what about alcohol? It turns out adults get almost as many empty calories from booze as from soft drinks, a government study found.Soda and other sweetened drinks — the focus of obesity-fighting public health campaigns — are the source of about 6 percent of the calories adults consume, on average. Alcoholic beverages account for about...
'30 Rock' heroine Liz Lemon to wed this month
Label: EntertainmentNEW YORK (AP) — Liz Lemon is getting married and you're invited.Fans of "30 Rock" might have reasonably assumed that Lemon, the harried TV producer played by Tina Fey, would ride out the series' seventh and final season as a perennial bachelorette unlucky in love. But Fey, who is also the creator and producer of the NBC comedy, clearly thought otherwise.In the "30 Rock" episode airing Nov. 29, Lemon...
McDonald's U.S. chief steps down
Label: Business Jan Fields, president of McDonald's USA has stepped down, the company said Friday. Fields, 57, will be succeeded by Jeff...
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40-year-old fatally shot inside Gresham neighborhood store
Label: World A man was found fatally shot in a store on 1100 block of West 84th Street. ...
AT&T sees $1 billion opportunity in company cybersecurity
Label: TechnologyBARCELONA (Reuters) - Companies will double or triple spending on cybersecurity in the coming years as attacks grow more sophisticated and frequent, creating a billion dollar business opportunity for U.S. carrier AT&T Inc, it said on Wednesday. Attacks on AT&T networks have doubled in the past four months and now tend to be more targeted to evade detection, Frank Jules, president...
AP source: Marlins trade 3 stars to Blue Jays
Label: SportsMIAMI (AP) — Reacting to the Miami Marlins' latest payroll purge on Twitter, slugger Giancarlo Stanton gave it three exclamation marks.He wasn't exaggerating. The Marlins' spending spree a year ago didn't work, so they went the salary-dumping route again Tuesday, shedding some of their biggest stars and multimillion-dollar salaries in one blockbuster deal.The Marlins swapped high-priced talent for...
Anne Hathaway reveals oatmeal paste diet for ‘Les Miserables’
Label: Lifestyle
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hollywood starlet Anne Hathaway credits a strict diet of dried oatmeal paste for helping her shed some 25 pounds (11 kg) for her role in the forthcoming big screen musical “Les Miserables.”“I had to be obsessive about it – the idea was to look near death,” Hathaway told Vogue about preparing for her role as the consumptive prostitute...
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