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THE MOVE: Hewlett-Packard Co. named executive Todd Bradley to a new position in charge of the company's strategy. Bradley will work with CEO Meg Whitman to improve HP's business in China and extend relationships with important partners worldwide. LAST ROLE: Bradley was in charge of HP's PC...

Move will create 20 jobs, and company expects to expand in Grove in the future.

The following list represents the most viral tracks on Spotify, based on the number of people who shared it divided by the number who listened to it, from Monday, June 10, to Sunday, June 16, via Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter and Spotify. UNITED STATES 1. Grouplove, "Ways to Go"...

The following list represents the top streamed tracks on Spotify from Monday, June 10, to Sunday, June 16: UNITED STATES 1. Robin Thicke, "Blurred Lines" (Star Trak LLC) 2. Imagine Dragons, "Radioactive" (KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records) 3. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Ray Dalton, "Can't...

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Hewlett-Packard says Todd Bradley, the head of its printing and personal computer business, has been appointed to a new position in charge of the company's strategy with a focus on China. In Tuesday's announcement, HP says Bradley, 54, will be in charge of strategic...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. retail sales of video games, hardware and accessories declined 25 percent in May as demand for aging game consoles continued to fade and fewer new games launched compared with last year, according to market researcher NPD Group. NPD said late Monday that total video game...

BERLIN (AP) — Shares in Germany's biggest cable operator are up after Kabel Deutschland received a preliminary takeover proposal from U.S. firm Liberty Global. Kabel Deutschland confirmed Liberty Global PLC's approach Tuesday, only days after British rival Vodafone PLC said it was also in...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Business software maker Oracle Corp. will get a chance to win back the confidence of disillusioned investors with the release of its latest quarterly results. WHAT TO LOOK FOR: The report, due out Thursday after the stock market closes, comes amid mounting worries about...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has met South Korean President Park Geun-hye in Seoul to discuss ways to stimulate entrepreneurship and venture firms in Asia's fourth-largest economy. Park's office said Zuckerberg assured the South Korean leader that Facebook would...

Growth of Oklahoma's biotechnology sector creates new opportunities for entrepreneurs.

Business Tech Bytes briefs for June 18

SHREK TV?: Netflix says it is ordering 300 hours of new TV shows from DreamWorks Animation over multiple years starting in 2014, calling the deal its biggest yet for original first-run content. SHIFTING SPEND: Netflix says it'll limit spending on original shows to about 10 percent of its annual...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google has resolved a shareholder lawsuit blocking a long-delayed stock split, clearing the way for the Internet search leader to issue a new class of non-voting shares later this year. The settlement announced Monday came on the eve of a scheduled Delaware chancery court...

NEW YORK (AP) — DISCLOSURE: Apple Inc. said it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer data for the six months ended in May. BACKGROUND: The company, like some other businesses, had asked the U.S government to be able to share how many requests it...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Across the dizzying, colorful show floor at last week's Electronic Entertainment Expo, there were games on display where players could become all manner of things, like a throat-slashing 18th century pirate, zombie killer, a guardian of the last city on earth, music-making...

Jim Stafford: It outlined actions that could lead to 7,000 new high paying jobs and nearly 90 new businesses over the decade

NEW YORK (AP) — Can the City That Never Sleeps become the City That Never Dies? A Russian multimillionaire thinks so. Dmitry Itskov gathered some of humanity's best brains — and a few robots — in New York City on Saturday to discuss how humans can get their minds to outlive their bodies....

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Since the first battles over "Pong" machines in local arcades four decades ago, video gamers have loved good competition. And this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo — the industry's largest annual gathering — presented more thrilling showdowns than ever. Microsoft vs....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook and Microsoft Corp. representatives said that after negotiations with national security officials their companies have been given permission to make new but still very limited revelations about government orders to turn over user data. The announcements Friday...

Google is experimenting with balloons that beam the Internet from the sky. WHAT? The helium-filled balloons are made from a thin polyethylene film and are 15 meters (49 feet) in diameter when fully inflated. WHERE? They float in the stratosphere about 20 kilometers (12 miles) above the Earth....

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Agriculture Department says it has no indications that genetically modified wheat found in Oregon last month has spread beyond the field in which it was found. No genetically engineered wheat has been approved for U.S. farming, and the department is investigating how the...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his San Francisco counterpart, Ed Lee, said at a news conference Friday that they are sponsoring a pair of technology summits over the next year. The mayors said the "digital cities" summits — one in New York in September and another...

NEW SOFTWARE: Microsoft is making a pared-down version of its Office software package available on the iPhone. MISSING: The company is holding out on extending that to the iPad and Android devices. It's trying to boost tablet computers running its own Windows system, which can run the regular...

_____ Microsoft brings Office to iPhone, but not iPad NEW YORK (AP) — Even as a pared-down version of Microsoft's Office software package arrived on the iPhone, the company is holding out on extending that to the iPad and Android devices as it tries to boost sales of tablet computers running...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An environmental group that helped push BP PLC to a multimillion-dollar settlement last year over air emissions at its northwestern Indiana oil refinery says the sprawling complex's revised wastewater permit falls short of what's needed to protect Lake Michigan's waters....