Investor and entrepreneur tells the CBS news magazine that a college degree is unnecessary for financial success, but critics call his program an elitist ploy. [Read more]

Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the only person convicted in connection with the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270, has died, Libyan Foreign Ministry says.

Internet pioneer will sell about half its shares in the China e-commerce giant for $7 billion, All Things D reports. [Read more]

A 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes near the northern Italian city of Camposanto, killing at least six people. In January, the area was struck by a 5.3-magnitude quake.

Software giant's "experiment in open search" is designed to be a research tool in which students share information on a variety of topics of interest. [Read more]

Zoom's H2n Handy Recorder has built-in microphones and records MP3 files and 96-kHz/24-bit high-resolution audio. [Read more]