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Prius owners in Japan are rushing to dealers Wednesday, a day after Toyota's president announced a global recall. Instead of screwdrivers and wrenches, what the mechanic is using to tackle the fix is a small laptop-like device that rewrites programming for the brakes.
Baidu Inc., which operates China's most popular Internet search engine, said its quarterly earnings jumped 48 percent, beating expectations on strong revenue growth.
Hundreds of thousands of South Carolina homeowners and tenants could weatherproof their homes and upgrade heating and air-conditioning units and pay for the improvements with energy savings, under a bill that was approved by a Senate panel Tuesday.
The 787 assembly line that Boeing Co. is building in North Charleston could lift some area residents out of poverty while adding $23 million in expansion costs to local school districts.
Want to donate to the Haiti earthquake relief effort? It's as simple as having a pizza, going grocery shopping or even doing your banking.
Despite a surge of home sales in the last few months of the year, 2009 proved to be another sour year for real estate in South Carolina.
As part of an ongoing effort to improve its user experience, Internet company AOL Inc. is letting users of its AIM instant-messaging service chat with friends on Facebook.
Americans backed off from holiday spending in January, but retail sales rose for a third month in a row compared with a year earlier, largely because of gas price hikes, according to figures released Wednesday by a key data service.
Mary Beth Henry hated school.