On February 5, the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles became a victim of a computer hack when the most important computers in the facility which were infected by a virus, shut them all down. The hospital had to pay the hackers $17,000 in bitcoin to the regain access to the systems. The incident is being investigated by the FBI.

Apple and the federal government both have their own versions of describing what Apple's CEO Tim Cook calls a "master key" which can be used for unlocking hundreds of millions of iPhones and the FBI calls it a requirement to fight terrorism, saying the Apple is just looking at protecting its brand.

On Friday, the Boeing Co said that the United States has given the company a license to arrange talks with airlines in Iran regarding jetliner purchases. However, the company said, it will require added approval from the U. S government to make sales deals.

In January, the U. S. consumer prices remained unaltered. Cheaper oil counterbalanced the growing costs of housing and health care. However, the yearly rate of inflation mirrored some signs of speeding up.

On Saturday, official Xinhua news agency reported that China has replaced its head of its securities regulator Xiao Gang appointing Liu Shiyu to take over the role. Liu Shiyu, is the chairman of board of Agriculture Bank of China.

Taking people to space has been a dream of many and Virgin Galactic's efforts to become the very first private space tourism company seems to be getting closer to reality.

A team led by the University College London in the UK has registered success in analyzing the atmosphere of a super-earth. It is the first time that researchers have been able to analyze and describe the atmosphere of 'super- earth'.

Earlier in the month during an earnings call Yahoo Inc. posted huge quarterly loss. Yahoo's CEO, Marissa Mayer had said that the company has plans to overturn the declining revenues and seeks to build a product line that will be new and fast-growing. She connected the strategy to as big as a "tectonic shift."

The tax season can be a demanding time, mainly for those household which are financially finding it difficult to make ends meet. There are some tips for the taxpayers, how they can possibly save some money and smoothly get on with the tax refunds.

On Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said that Charles Grom, an ex- Deutsche Bank Securities analyst has agreed to pay $100,000 as penalty along with being suspended for one year from the financial industry. He allegedly, issued "buy" rating for stock years back to maintain good relations with the company, when it clashed with his personal predictions.