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...
'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, at a McDonald's restaurant in Oak Brook in 2011. ...
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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...
Report: FDA wanted to close Mass pharmacy in 2003
Label: HealthWASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a decade ago, federal health inspectors wanted to shut down the pharmacy linked to a recent deadly meningitis outbreak until it cleaned up its operations, according to congressional investigators.About 440 people have been sickened by contaminated steroid shots distributed by New England Compounding Center, and more than 32 deaths have been reported since the outbreak began...
People magazine says Channing Tatum is sexiest man
Label: EntertainmentNEW YORK (AP) — Channing Tatum is People magazine's "sexiest man alive" for 2012.The 32-year-old actor says his first thought on hearing the news was: "'Y'all are messing with me.'"Tatum's film roles include "Magic Mike" and the upcoming "Foxcatcher."Other actors who have received the "sexiest" label include George Clooney, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Ryan Reynolds. Last year's "sexiest...
Microsoft executive exits at a shaky time
Label: Business Turns out Microsoft Corp.'s radical overhaul of its Windows operating system last month wasn't the only big change in store...
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