In Inquiry, Drilling Company Chief Quits

LONDON — The chief executive of Saipem, the largest European drilling and engineering contractor for the oil industry, resigned Wednesday evening after an Italian prosecutor’s office said it was investigating possible corruption. The executive, Pietro Franco Tali, also served as deputy chairman of the company, in which the big Italian oil company Eni has a controlling stake. A...

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Debut of repainted sign is Hollywood event

If there's anything Tinseltown excels at, it's turning a ho-hum event into a made-for-TV spectacle. Witness the fanfare that...

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YouTube Releases iPad App, Filling Last Device Gap in Split from Apple

Google has updated its YouTube app to support the iPad’s larger screen, creating a new experience for the iPad and iPhone 5 while filling in yet another gap created when iOS 6 took away YouTube’s coveted spot on iDevice home screens.Tuesday’s updated YouTube app follows the earlier release of an iPhone-specific app, and using the app is a familiar and seamless experience....

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Huston’s “Infrared” wins Bad Sex fiction prize

LONDON (AP) — It’s the prize no author wants to win.Award-winning novelist Nancy Huston won Britain’s Bad Sex in Fiction award Tuesday for her novel “Infrared,” whose tale of a photographer who takes pictures of her lovers during sex proved too revealing for the judges.The choice was announced by “Downton Abbey” actress Samantha Bond during a ceremony at the Naval & Military Club in London.Judges...

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Software Programs Help Doctors Diagnose, but Can’t Replace Them

SAN FRANCISCO — The man on stage had his audience of 600 mesmerized. Over the course of 45 minutes, the tension grew. Finally, the moment of truth arrived, and the room was silent with anticipation. At last he spoke. “Lymphoma with secondary hemophagocytic syndrome,” he said. The crowd erupted in applause. Professionals in every field revere their superstars, and in medicine the best...

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DealBook: Former Goldman Director Gupta to Stay Free Pending His Appeal

A former Goldman Sachs director, Rajat K. Gupta, may remain free on bail while he challenges his insider-trading conviction, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday.In a surprise decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan ruled that Mr. Gupta would not have to report to prison until his appeal is heard, which could take a year. He had been set to start serving...

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Two Mexican nationals charged in killing of U.S. Coast Guardsman

Federal prosecutors charged two Mexican nationals in connection with killing U.S. Coast Guardsmen Terrell Horne III after they...

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Microsoft's Motorola Patent Violation Won't Stop Xbox Sales

A federal judge in Seattle has told Motorola Mobility that he will not grant its request to ban the sale of Microsoft’s Xbox 360, and the two need to stop bickering and broker a licensing deal to end their patent suit.The ruling by Judge James Robart follows a finding by an International Trade Commission administrative law judge that the Xbox has violated four Motorola...

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Additional copies of ‘Lincoln’ headed to theaters

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Lincoln” is marching to more movie theaters.Disney, which distributed the DreamWorks film, is making additional prints of director Steven Spielberg‘s historical saga starring Daniel Day-Lewis to meet an unexpected demand that has left some moviegoers in Alaska out in the cold.“To say that we’re encouraged by the results to date or that they’ve exceeded our expectations is an understatement,”...

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Global Update: GlaxoSmithKline Tops Access to Medicines Index

Sang Tan/Associated PressGlaxoSmithKline hung on to its perennial top spot in the new Access to Medicines Index released last week, but its competitors are closing in. Every two years, the index ranks the world’s top 20 pharmaceutical companies based on how readily they get medicines they hold patents on to the world’s poor, how much research they do on tropical diseases, how ethically...

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