AM News Headlines 2-19-13

(WWLP) - A man from Westfield is charged with shooting 2 people in a home invasion in Chicopee Monday night.  Chicopee Police Capt. Mark Gilbert told 22News 34 year old William Wright is charged with 6 counts of armed assault with intent to murder following the shooting on Madison Street at 11:30 last night.  According…

Rosemead landmark Bahooka to close

ROSEMEAD -- Known for its Tiki atmosphere and collection of tropical fish, the fabled Bahooka on Rosemead Boulevard will serve its rum-soaked mai-tai next month, Steve Twigg, a restaurant employee, confirmed Friday. A fixture in Rosemead since 1967, the themed restaurant, dark except for the glow of its multitudinous fish tanks, has been the site…

Investigators: Reservations over reviews

Many people turn to the Internet to get reviews on restaurants before deciding to dine there, but some local complaints about Yelp.com have some expressing reservations about using the site. Watch the video for more information. Online resource: Follow Trish Van Pilsum on Twitter

Google, Merck, Gruyere, Newzbin2: Intellectual Property

Google Inc. owes its creation partly to a patented software algorithm for ranking documents in a database, issued to company founder Larry Page and owned by Stanford University. The world’s largest search-engine company contends that too many other software patents hurt innovation more often than they lead to viable businesses. Google, along with JPMorgan Chase…

Buzz Stocks: Google Inc, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Visa Inc, and US Airways

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US stock index futures signal mixed open

PARIS | Thu Feb 7, 2013 9:55am GMT PARIS Feb 7 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures pointed to a mixed open on Wall Street on Thursday. Futures for the SP 500 were down 0.05 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.07 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.05 percent at 0933 GMT. * European shares…

Google Joins JPMorgan in Seeking Software Patent Limits

Google Inc. owes its creation in part to a patented software algorithm for ranking documents in a database, issued to company founder Larry Page and owned by Stanford University. The world’s largest search-engine company contends that too many other software patents hurt innovation more often than they lead to viable businesses. Google, along with JPMorgan…

How Yelp Could Create More Accurate Reviews

Image via CrunchBase How, then, does a consumer make sense of the spate of opinions, many of which contradict each other? New research suggests a scientific way to aggregate reviews in a way that makes ratings more meaningful to consumers—and fairer to the businesses they review. Michael Luca, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School,…