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Investors fret Yahoo's future, stock dips 09/24/2014 09:14am • BRANDON BAILEY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo may be losing some appeal on Wall Street now that U.S. investors can buy directly into Alibaba.Yahoo's stock fell Monday as investors grappled with uncertainty about CEO Marissa Mayer's efforts to turn around the struggling Silicon Vall Correction: China-Minority Scholar story 09/24/2014 06:58am • BEIJING (AP) -- In a story Sept. 23 about a life sentence given to a Chinese scholar, The Associated Press erroneously said that political analyst Willy Lam teaches at the City University of Hong Kong. The correct school is the Chinese University of Hong Kong.A corrected version of the story is belo Arkansas cowers under Senate advertising barrage 09/23/2014 10:24pm • ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Little Rock friends Mike Thomas and Jack Evans don't support the same candidate in the nationally watched U.S. Senate race here, but they certainly agree on what to do when the contenders' ads start pouring out of the television."I grab the r Algerian troops search for kidnapped Frenchman 09/23/2014 04:30pm • AGIERS, Algeria (AP) -- Algerian police and soldiers today have been searching a mountainous region for a kidnapped Frenchman. Residents say roads have been filled with military trucks, as helicopters fly overhead and security forces fan out through the rugged region -- which has long been a hotbed Goodgame Studios reveals revenue, coy on IPO plans 09/23/2014 01:00pm • FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) -- German online games company Goodgame Studios has for the first time revealed financial details of its business amid reports it is planning a stock market floatation.Several media reports have claimed that Goodgame could be the latest German tech company Stanford says it never promised to use Google money for privacy research 09/23/2014 11:42am • UPDATE- 9/26/2014, 6:30 a.m. ET A Stanford official said on Wednesday that its Center for Internet and Society has never promised not to use Google money for privacy research. The university's legal filing should not be read to imply a prohibition on Google money being spent on privacy research GM expert says 21 deaths eligible for compensation 09/23/2014 04:16am • DETROIT (AP) -- The death toll from crashes involving General Motors small cars with faulty ignition switches is at least 21.Attorney Kenneth Feinberg, who was hired by the company to compensate victims, said Monday in an Internet posting that he received 143 death claims as of Friday, and 21 of tho 8 Websites for Free Online Learning 09/23/2014 12:00am • One of the biggest benefits of the Internet is the huge amount of information we all have available at our fingertips. Yet the biggest challenge for many of us is making sense of all that information. There are many opportunities for learning, but the information is often spread out in various place St. Louis County cops apologize for flier wording 09/22/2014 06:00pm • JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) -- St. Louis County police apologized Monday for the wording of a flier announcing a seminar to help officers interact with the media.The flier on county letterhead says topics of the Oct. 24 program at the St. Louis County and Municipal Police Academy will Alibaba stock soars in jubilant trading debut 09/22/2014 05:20pm • MAE ANDERSON AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Alibaba debuted as a publicly traded company Friday and swiftly climbed nearly 40 percent in a mammoth IPO that offered eager investors seemingly unlimited growth potential and a way to tap into the burgeoning Chinese middle class.The sharp demand f Media wants cameras for theater shooting trial 09/22/2014 04:00pm • DAN ELLIOTT Associated Press CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) -- Prosecutors and defense lawyers in the Colorado theater shootings case urged the judge on Monday to bar cameras from the courtroom during the trial, saying witnesses could be harassed and threatened because of the coverage.They also argued that Yahoo rakes in another jackpot from Alibaba's IPO 09/22/2014 09:34am • MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo is making amends for years of blundering with one smart move: an early investment in Alibaba Group that has turned into a multibillion-dollar boon.The latest windfall came with Alibaba's record-setting IPO completed late Thursday, in w Alibaba mega IPO caps founder Jack Ma success tale 09/22/2014 08:40am • KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) -- When Jack Ma founded Alibaba 15 years ago he insisted the e-commerce venture should see itself as competing against Silicon Valley, not other Chinese companies. That bold ambition from a time when China was still a corporate backwater has been vindica Naver says no IPO for Line messenger app in 2014 09/22/2014 08:00am • YOUKYUNG LEE AP Technology Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korean Internet company Naver Corp. said Monday its popular Line instant messaging app won't go public on a stock exchange this year.Naver, which is Line's parent company, said in a regulatory filing that Line Corp. had ruled out goi Squashing fears about 6 common food ingredients 09/22/2014 07:00am • A recent study by researchers at Cornell University explored consumers' "food fears" and attempted to address how to ease concern at the supermarket cart. According to this report published in Food Quality and Preference, 1,008 U.S. mothers were asked about their views on high-fructose corn syr