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AT&T profit rises on wireless growth (Reuters)
Date : 23 Jul 2008
Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Top U.S. phone company AT&T Inc said on Wednesday its quarterly profit rose, as growth in wireless subscribers helped read more »
Boeing profit falls on military plane charge (Reuters)
Date : 23 Jul 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Boeing Co said on Wednesday quarterly profit fell due to a previously announced charge on a delayed military plane co read more »
Ethan Allen quarterly profit drops 46 percent (Reuters)
Date : 23 Jul 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Furniture retailer Ethan Allen Interiors reported a 46 percent drop in quarterly profit on Wednesday, hurt by declini read more »
Pfizer profit doubles, but anti-smoking drug sags (Reuters)
Date : 23 Jul 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Pfizer Inc on Wednesday said quarterly earnings more than doubled on higher sales of its prescription drugs and lower read more »
Stocks rise as lower oil boosts optimism (Reuters)
Date : 23 Jul 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Stock futures rose on Wednesday as investors bet that a further drop in oil prices will help sustain consumer and busi read more »
Vote looms in Congress on housing rescue plan (Reuters)
Date : 22 Jul 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - A major rescue package for the U.S. housing market is scheduled to come to a vote in the House of Representatives on W read more »
Sometimes The Customer Is Wrong
Date : 22 Jul 2008
TechdirtMy friend Jacob Grier weighs in on a story that's been getting a ton of attention: some guy went into a DC-area coffee shop called read more »
Monster Cable's Lawyers Realize That Even A Moron In A Hurry Knows The Difference Between A Salt Lick And A TV Cable
Date : 22 Jul 2008 TechdirtMonster Cable has a long history of abusing trademark law to threaten and/or sue pretty much any company that uses the name "Monst read more »
When Judging Antitrust Claims Against Google, Look At Lock-In, Not Network Effects
Date : 22 Jul 2008 TechdirtBill Snyder has an article calling Google "Microsoft's evil twin" because if it completes its merger with Yahoo it will have 90 pe read more »
Moderate and lower earners under more pressure (Reuters)
Date : 22 Jul 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - The trouble that began last summer in the financial markets raised the likelihood of a U.S. recession, but for America read more »
Once Again: Court Says That COPA Anti-Porn Law Is Unconstitutional
Date : 22 Jul 2008 TechdirtAfter the Supreme Court rejected most of the Communications Decency Act as being unconstitutional, Congress tried again with the m read more »
Investor's Quiz: Was Pullback To 10-Week Line Proper? (Investor's Business Daily)
Date : 22 Jul 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessInvestor's Business Daily - The company at this time was heavily traded and owned by dozens of mutual funds. read more »
Now Canadian Teachers Want Cyberbullying To Be A Criminal Offense
Date : 22 Jul 2008 TechdirtAt some point, people need to realize that there are some people out there who just do jerkry things. In fact, at some point or a read more »
IFPI Forces Music Offline, Even Though Copyright Holder Wanted It Shared
Date : 22 Jul 2008 TechdirtWhen challenged on what they're doing, organizations like the RIAA and the IFPI will often claim that they're just trying to help read more »
Software Patent Supporter Tries To Pretend Google Harmed Without Software Patents
Date : 22 Jul 2008 TechdirtThere's a somewhat bizarre and ethically questionable post up on the usually excellent Patently-O blog, hyping up the fact that Go read more »
Dark Knight Proves Again: Give People A Reason To Go To The Movies And They Will
Date : 22 Jul 2008 TechdirtWhile the MPAA still wants you to believe that movie piracy is a huge problem, it's never quite able to explain how the movies tha read more »
Copyright Office May Have Just Added New Royalties For Webcasts
Date : 22 Jul 2008 TechdirtWell, this is just downright disturbing. Jon Healy has a quick summary of a totally unexpected and unnecessary proposed rulemakin read more »
Andrew Cuomo Threatens To Sue Comcast If It Doesn't Sign Up For His Plan To Pretend To Fight Child Porn
Date : 22 Jul 2008 TechdirtLast month, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo made some news by pressuring a bunch of ISPs to agree to block certain sites in read more »
MPAA Doubletalk On FCC Request To Block DVR Recordings
Date : 22 Jul 2008 TechdirtYou may recall back in June we wrote about the MPAA's petition to the FCC to block DVR recordings of certain movies by removing a read more »
RNC Backs Down On Threats Over T-Shirts With Its Logo
Date : 22 Jul 2008 TechdirtPaul Alan Levy writes in to let us know that following widespread press coverage of his challenge to the Republican National Commi read more »
U.S. regulators check Fannie, Freddie books: report (Reuters)
Date : 22 Jul 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Bank examiners from the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Comptroller of the Currency are inspecting the books of mortgage read more »
Delusions Of Being Jim Carey In The Truman Show
Date : 22 Jul 2008 TechdirtPop culture influences different people in different ways. In fact, some psychologists are trying to claim that there's a new del read more »
Why Are UK Defense Ministry Officials Carrying Classified Info On USB Keys?
Date : 21 Jul 2008 TechdirtOver in the UK, the Defense Ministry is admitting to the fact that it's lost plenty of laptops with classified info on them. That read more »
Apple outlook well below Wall Street view (Reuters)
Date : 21 Jul 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Apple Inc said on Monday its current-quarter earnings would be well below Wall Street targets, sending shares of the read more »
EFF Gets Another Victory Over Bogus Patents
Date : 21 Jul 2008 TechdirtIt's been four years since the EFF first announced its bogus patent busting project, where it lined up 10 awful patents that neede read more »