Posted: 10:53 AM After being nearly overwhelmed by visitors, additional servers were added to support the newly released 1940 U.S. census website.

Posted: 2:22 PM Facebook fans are getting an early shot to see the all-star superhero tale "The Avengers."

Updated: 10:32 AM Even when picking your lottery numbers--there is an app for that!

Updated: 7:19 AM It once dominated the smartphone market, but now the Blackberry finds itself struggling to stay competitive in a market now dominated by iPhones.

Posted: 7:03 AM Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met the Japanese prime minister to talk about Facebook's latest initiative on communication in disasters.

Updated: 8:47 AM Facebook pages--but not personal profiles--are making the mandatory switch to the "Timeline" feature Friday.

Posted: 9:51 AM Best Buy plans to close 50 stores in the 2013 fiscal year, and hopes to cut $800 million in costs over the next couple of years.

Posted: 5:26 PM Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says he's making plans to recover the sunken engines that were part of the powerful Saturn V rocket that delivered Neil Armstrong to the moon.

Posted: 5:22 PM Two of Silicon Valley's most powerful companies, Oracle and Google, are digging in their heels as they prepare for an upcoming trial

Posted: 3:44 PM The Federal Trade Commission says that an online game site called RockYou has reached a settlement with the government over a hacking attack that exposed email addresses and passwords from 32 million users.

Posted: 10:27 AM Nokia and Microsoft plan to invest millions in research for mobile applications.

Posted: 4:23 PM A report says that Facebook has acquired 750 patents from IBM as it girds itself for litigation, including a lawsuit by Yahoo.

Posted: 4:09 PM A technology blog is reporting that Hewlett-Packard is combining its printing and PC units to save money, but the company hasn't confirmed the news.

Posted: 2:29 PM Match.com, eHarmony and Spark Networks have agreed to screen for sex offenders.

Posted: 12:22 PM NASA said Tuesday that consideration is underway to use the space station as a dry run for a simulated trip to and from Mars.

Posted: 11:40 AM The New York Times is cutting the number of articles available for free online from 20 per month to 10.

Posted: 11:37 AM PC shipments worldwide grew less than 2 percent last year. This year, a research group expects sales to pick up during the last two quarters.

Posted: 10:27 AM In their efforts to screen job applicants, some employers are going beyond the usual questions about experience and references and asking for something else: Facebook usernames and passwords.

Posted: 9:16 AM SpaceX will launch the first commercial cargo shipment to the ISS in early May.

Posted: 9:12 AM Apple is finally putting its cash hoard to work, introducing a quarterly dividend of $2.65 per share and starting a $10 billion share buyback program.

Posted: 2:36 PM The public radio program "This American Life" is retracting a story broadcast in January about Apple's operations in China, citing "numerous fabrications."

Updated: 12:44 PM Friday's a big day for tech fans everywhere, with the new iPad going on sale.

Posted: 11:04 AM People are less likely to lie about big career points on LinkedIn but more deceptive about their interests and hobbies.

Posted: 2:44 PM At South By Southwest's 2012 interactive conference an undercurrent of more skeptical dialogue accompanied the usual eagerness for new gadgets.

Posted: 2:33 PM Federal jurors in San Francisco on Tuesday convicted a Taiwan company and two top executives for working with competitors to inflate prices of LCD screens.