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‘Micro-Unit’ Apartments Proposed for Crystal City 05/13/2014 11:00am • One of the region’s first “micro-unit” apartment buildings is coming to Crystal City. A new apartment concept is planned for a vacant Crystal City office building, one that would bring the office trend of co-working spaces to the residential real estate market. The project Court sides with US in cell-tracking records case 05/13/2014 08:48am • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department does not have to turn over information on cases involving warrantless cellphone tracking if the cases ended without a defendant's conviction, a divided federal appeals court ruled Friday in upholding privacy protections for peopl Wall Street risk-takers...Retail sales, business inventories 05/13/2014 07:41am • NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street investors have regained their appetite for riskier stocks. Among the big gainers Monday were Twitter and Facebook, which had plunged in March and April. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 18.17 points to finish at an all-time high. The Dow also broke a record, gaining Organizations aim to train immigrant entrepreneurs 05/13/2014 02:16am • GOSIA WOZNIACKA Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- After immigrating to Oregon from the Mexican state of Oaxaca more than two decades ago, Paula Asuncion worked on farms and in minimum wage jobs at fast-food restaurants -- a widow struggling to feed six children, sharing cramped apartments with FTC says Snapchat deceived customers 05/12/2014 02:04pm • BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Snapchat has agreed to settle with the Federal Trade Commission over charges that it deceived customers about the disappearing nature of messages sent through its service and that it collected users' contacts without telling them or asking permis Omnicom, Publicis merger fell over 'equal' terms 05/09/2014 12:16pm • LORI HINNANT Associated Press PARIS (AP) -- A day after Publicis and Omnicom called off their $35 billion combination, the two CEOs said it came down to a question of balance.The deal to combine France's Publicis Groupe and Omnicom Group on the United States collapsed due to clashes over how to impl Windfall means 'moment of reckoning' for Yahoo CEO 05/09/2014 08:36am • MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer faces a $10 billion decision in a few months.The pivotal moment will come when the Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba Group completes its initial public offering of stock -- an enormous deal that triggers a provision r Obama popular in tech world, policies less so 05/09/2014 05:54am • JIM KUHNHENN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Silicon Valley recoils at the government's cyber data-gathering done in the name of national security. It bristles at new potential Internet rules. Its fast-paced ethos doesn't understand Washington's gridlock.Yet, President Barack Obama remains a po Review: Pregnancy apps track baby, mom's progress 05/09/2014 02:06am • BREE FOWLER AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- When I became pregnant with my daughter, now 4, I didn't even own a smartphone. I did most of my pregnancy research with my desktop computer and those pregnancy books that nearly every first-time mom reads.Now, baby No. 2 is on the way and times have Facebook plans campaign to 'friend' small business 05/08/2014 05:00am • JOYCE M. ROSENBERG AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook wants to increase its advertising and get more clicks on all kinds of ads. It believes tapping into the lucrative small business market will help it achieve those goals.Sheryl Sandberg, the social media company's operating chief and "Le Intel, PC makers broaden support for Chromebooks 05/07/2014 11:58am • MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Another wave of laptop computers running on Google's Chrome operating system will be hitting stores this summer in the latest challenge to Microsoft's dominant Windows franchise.The latest line of Chromebooks unveiled Tuesday run on a new ge Cyclist Collision Sends Two to Hospital 05/07/2014 10:10am • Two cyclists collided in North Arlington last night, leaving one in serious condition. The collision happened around 7:40 p.m. near the intersection of N. Glebe Road and Old Glebe Road. Though the circumstances of the accident are unclear, both cyclists involved were injured and transported to the h Apple awarded $119M, but who's winning the fight? 05/07/2014 05:30am • PAUL ELIAS Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- When a jury ordered Samsung to pay Apple $119 million for copying features of the iPhone, it was latest chapter in the worldwide legal fighting between the top two smartphone companies.Friday's damage award was far less than the $2.2 billion Apple Stocks drop on mixed earnings; Twitter plunges 05/07/2014 04:34am • BERNARD CONDON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S. stocks fell broadly on Tuesday as investors found little to cheer in corporate earnings reports. A plunge in Twitter led Internet companies sharply lower.Twitter dropped 18 percent after company insiders were allowed to sell stock for the first New, more advanced Va. travel guide available 05/07/2014 04:00am • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A new and more high-tech Virginia travel guide is now available.The Virginia Tourism Corporation says that for the first time, the guide is available for download through three leading app stores -- Apple iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon. It also can be found on the corporati