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DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp is rushing to finish the production version of its Chevy Volt and plans to unveil a showroom-ready model of the heavily touted electric car in September, people familiar with the project say.

(Reuters) - Animated-movie studio DreamWorks Animation SKG has chosen chipmaker Intel Corp over previous supplier Advanced Micro Devices to supply chips and other technology for its big computer-animation operations, The Wall Street Journal said.

AP - microsoft Corp. threw its weight behind investor Carl Icahn's effort to dump Yahoo Inc.'s board, saying Monday that a successful shareholder rebellion would encourage the software maker to renew its bid to buy Yahoo's Internet search engine or possibly the entire company.

The court order forcing Google to turn over records of who has viewed and uploaded videos on YouTube shows how much information about people's Internet use can be disclosed in a legal proceeding.

The deaths started in a few caves, with hibernating bats dying in place and falling in charnel heaps to the floor.

Biologists are stumped by a plague that has killed tens of thousands, and perhaps hundreds of thousands, of bats this year in ...

The programming format for HD Radio: Almost anything goes, including redneck women and obscure rock 'n' rollers. Beyond-the-mainstream ...

Metro has begun posting service-disruption information for Metrobus on its Web site as a way to improve communication with riders on its more than 350 bus routes. The agency has been posting such information for rail riders for years.

Word of mouse is the latest trend in online travel planning, and a variety of corporate travel companies are setting up networking sites in hopes of becoming the Facebook of corporate travel.

MORE than a quarter of a million Australians will own an iphone by the end of the year, representing one per cent of all mobile phone users in the country.