| Business/Tech Northrop plans bid on missile defense contract
Northrop Grumman announced Thursday that it intends to bid on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense development and sustainment contract for which the U.S. Missile Defense Agency put out a draft request Tuesday. Mobile apps will bring in $6.2B this year, firm says
$6.2 billion? There's an app for that. More like 4.5 million of them. Fortune's 100 best companies to work for: Nordstrom climbs, Starbucks plummets
Nice to know someone other than Microsoft, Amazon or Starbucks can get some attention around here. Report: 30 communities at risk of losing air service
Small and medium-sized cities are at risk of losing their air connections to their regional hubs, according to a new report. Report: TSA agent pulls practical joke on passenger
There are actually two sad aviation security fail stories involving my hometown of Philadelphia on Thursday. The IE security patch is now available
The Internet Explorer security patch Microsoft promised Wednesday is now available here. Rated critical, the update includes patches for seven vulnerabilities in addition to the one Google publicized last week. Gulf Air inks deal to lease two EMBRAER 170 jets
Gulf Air signed a preliminary agreement Thursday to lease two EMBRAER 170 jets, Embaer announced. Yemenia signs contract for 10 Airbus A320s
Yemenia, Yemen's official carrier, has signed a firm contract to buy 10 Airbus A320 aircraft, Airbus announced Thursday. The contract follows a memorandum of understanding signed at the Dubai air show. Microsoft proposes 'Cloud Computing Advancement Act'
Microsoft has called on Congress to make a law for protecting consumers and businesses as cloud computing becomes a more popular IT option. First Boeing 747-8 Freighter starts gauntlet test
Boeing's first 747-8 Freighter started gauntlet testing Thursday morning. Sony's Motion Controller pushed back to fall launch
The Tech Chronicles reports: The move puts Motion Controller in a similar window as Microsoft's Project Natal, which Microsoft said will be launched this holiday season. AP: Google's YouTube getting into movie rental business
The Associated Press reports: YouTube is making its debut as a rental outlet Friday to help promote some of the movies that will be shown at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival. MSN-Citi venture emerges as Bundle finance site
Microsoft MSN, Citigroup and Morningstar have joined up and on Tuesday launched Bundle.com, which the companies are billing as a social-media Web site for personal money management. Good questions about Boeing's 747
Japan Airlines' bankruptcy filing and restructuring will bring the retirement of the carrier's 35 747 aircraft and add to uncertainty for the 747-400 and 747-8 programs, FlightBlogger wrote Wednesday. Bing on the iPhone? It may be happening
The blogs have been buzzing this week with speculation that Apple might make Bing the default search provider on the iPhone. Yeah – an Apple-Microsoft partnership. In cap flap, MillerCoors told to change beer ads
MILWAUKEE -- An ad industry watchdog wants MillerCoors to modify its claims about flagship Miller Lite because the company hasn't made changes as the ads imply. Tetris passes 100 million paid mobile downloads
NEW YORK -- More than 25 years after its birth, Tetris is the best-selling mobile game of all time, having surpassed 100 million paid downloads on cell phones around the world. 
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