Technology Top Stories from Associated Press (AP)

TOKYO (AP) , Sony Corp., the struggling Japanese electronics and entertainment company, is headed in the right direction although its comeback is not yet complete, its chief executive said Thursday. Kazuo Hirai told reporters that Sony is now more nimble and focused under his leadership which began nine months ago.

The world's most determined stuntman wheelies over to Apple's gaming tablet in the third-person platform racer Joe Danger Touch (Hello Games, reviewed with iPad 3, rated 9+, $2.99). Within a completely...

LAS VEGAS (AP) , A trade show expected to draw tens of thousands of gun enthusiasts and manufacturers opened Tuesday on the Las Vegas Strip with the head of an industry group preparing to tell convention-goers they weren't to blame for the recent mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) , Facebook's mystery "press event" on Tuesday could reveal a more robust search feature that would intensify the competition between the social networking giant and its rival Google Inc. Facebook is holding the event at 10 a.m. (1 p.m. EST) at its Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters. The company has not said what it plans to announce.

General Motors is trying to take the Chevrolet Volt's electric technology upscale with a new Cadillac. The company on Tuesday introduced the ELR, which has the same battery and gas-powered generator as the Chevy version.

The following list represents the top streamed tracks on Spotify from Monday, Jan. 7, to Sunday, Jan. 13: UNITED STATES 1. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis feat. Wanz, "Thrift Shop" (Macklemore) 2. The Lumineers, "Ho Hey" (Dualtone) 3. Swedish House Mafia feat. John Martin, "Don't You Worry Child (Radio Edit)" (Virgin Records)

BERLIN (AP) , Call it Europe's Got Talent for geeks. Teams of scientists from across the continent are vying for a funding bonanza that could see two of them receive up to €1 billion ($1.33 billion) over 10 years to keep Europe at the cutting edge of technology.

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) , Business software provider SAP AG says sales rose 12 percent in the fourth quarter thanks to strong results from Asia. Revenues rose to €5.02 billion ($6.7 billion) from €4.50 billion in the same quarter a year earlier. Software revenue rose 22 percent in the Asia-Pacific-Japan region but only 8 percent in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

NEW YORK (AP) , RadioShack climbed nearly 8 percent in premarket trading Tuesday after the electronics retailer said it would close down its mobile phone centers in Target stores, an operation that analysts see as a money loser.

BEIJING (AP) , One of the world's most successful Internet entrepreneurs, Jack Ma, founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, announced Tuesday he is stepping down as chief executive but will remain chairman. In a letter to employees, Ma said he would no longer be CEO after May 10 but will remain active as executive chairman.

MOSCOW (AP) , The Russian Space Agency says it will send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 2015 from a new launch pad in the country's Far East. Roscosmos head Vladimir Popovkin told Russian...

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. (AP) , After a year of gathering dust and negative headlines, the troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant shows stirrings toward a possible restart, though big barriers remain...

LOS ANGELES (AP) , Technology reviews by website CNET have long been respected for their thoroughness and integrity, but that reputation has come under scrutiny after a top reporter quit over what he says is editorial interference by its parent company, CBS Corp. The dispute centers on CNET's choice of best gadgets from last week's International CES show in Las Vegas.

BOSTON (AP) , A lawyer who formerly represented Internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz on computer hacking charges says he told prosecutors about a year ago that Swartz was a suicide risk. The family of 26-year-old Swartz says he hanged himself at his New York apartment on Friday.

LOS ANGELES (AP) , Oracle Corp. said Monday it has released a fix for the flaw in its Java software that raised an alarm from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security last week. Even after the patch was issued, the federal agency continued to recommend that users disable Java in their Web browsers.