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Entertainment Industry Again Says Everyone Else Must Protect Its Business Model
Date : 19 Aug 2008
TechdirtThe Progress & Freedom Foundation is hosting its annual tech policy conference in Aspen, and given that it's PFF we're talkin read more »
HP results top Street despite stronger dollar (Reuters)
Date : 19 Aug 2008
Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Hewlett-Packard Co results beat Wall Street targets as net profit rose 14 percent, subduing fears that slowing econom read more »
Has Anyone At AT&T Ever Called AT&T Tech Support?
Date : 19 Aug 2008 TechdirtWhile the FCC and certain broadband companies like to insist that there's real competition in the broadband market, right here in read more »
Ex-hedge fund manager ordered to pay $300 million (Reuters)
Date : 19 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - A former hedge fund manager was ordered to pay nearly $300 million for having cheated clients by sending out fake acco read more »
2Q profit reports from retailers show more strain (AP)
Date : 19 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - From affluent shoppers at Saks to bargain-hunters at Target, from Home Depot to office supplier Staples, consumers are pullin read more »
Blockbuster CEO Is Still Confused By The Long Tail
Date : 19 Aug 2008 TechdirtIn 2004, Chris Anderson wrote his feature article for Wired Magazine in which he coined the term "the long tail" to describe the b read more »
Inflation pressures mount as home building slows (Reuters)
Date : 19 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - U.S. wholesale prices shot up in July at the fastest annual rate in 27 years, while home builders cut back on construc read more »
Fed officials say must be ready to curb inflation (Reuters)
Date : 19 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - The U.S. Federal Reserve must be ready to take action if slowing economic growth fails to curb inflation stemming from read more »
Fannie, Freddie fears, inflation slam Wall St (Reuters)
Date : 19 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - U.S. stocks fell for a second straight session on Tuesday as credit worries hit bank shares and a report showing infla read more »
The Blurring Borders Of Music And Advertising: P&G Starts A Record Label With Def Jam
Date : 19 Aug 2008 TechdirtFor a while now, we've been pointing out that people in both the advertising and content businesses need to recognize that they're read more »
Russia 'makes 1 bln dlrs' on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac bonds: reports (AFP)
Date : 19 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAFP - Investments in the bonds of struggling US home-loan financers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have earned Russia more than a bill read more »
ABC/Disney Memo Shows That Ripping Off Other TV Programs Is Ok... For ABC/Disney
Date : 19 Aug 2008 TechdirtOf course, we all know that in the long history of Disney, the company has made much of its money by taking the content of others read more »
NTP Can't Leave Well Enough Alone Concerning RIM
Date : 19 Aug 2008 TechdirtIn one of the biggest travesties of the patent system, over two years ago, RIM agreed to pay NTP $612.5 million for patent infring read more »
Zango May Have Worked Things Out With The FTC, But What About The MPAA?
Date : 19 Aug 2008 TechdirtWe've pointed out for years the various questionable activities performed by adware firm Zango (or one of its earlier incarnations read more »
Target quarterly profit drops 8 percent (Reuters)
Date : 19 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Target Corp reported a nearly 8 percent drop in quarterly profit on Tuesday as shoppers passed over trendy clothes an read more »
Fed's Fisher: Fed must be ready to act on inflation (Reuters)
Date : 19 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - The Federal Reserve must be ready to take action if slowing economic growth fails to curb inflation stemming from high read more »
Inflation, credit worries slam Wall St. (Reuters)
Date : 19 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Stocks fell 1 percent on Tuesday on a report showing sharply higher inflation, which could threaten the economy, and m read more »
Home Depot's 2Q profit drops 24 percent (AP)
Date : 19 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - The Home Depot Inc., the nation's largest home improvement retailer, reported a 24 percent drop in second-quarter profit on T read more »
And Another Useful Online Music Service Shut Down By The RIAA
Date : 19 Aug 2008 TechdirtEver since it launched, people have waited for the RIAA or its member record labels to go after Muxtape. The site allowed individ read more »
American Home to pay fraction of bankruptcy claims (Reuters)
Date : 19 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - American Home Mortgage Investment Corp , which was among the largest U.S. home loan providers before seeking bankruptc read more »
Inflation pressures mount; home building slows (Reuters)
Date : 19 Aug 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Wholesale prices shot up in July at the fastest year-on-year rate since 1981, while home builders cut back on construc read more »
Yet Another Example Of Why Google Would Be Better Off Without Patents
Date : 19 Aug 2008 TechdirtWhile patent system supporters are trying to convince people that Google could be at great risk if software patents were done away read more »
Be Careful What You Subpoena. It May Turn Up More Than You'd Like People To Know
Date : 19 Aug 2008 TechdirtRemember the VC firm, EDF Ventures, which brought a lot more attention to a negative review on the website TheFunded.com by sendin read more »
Woman Who Claimed RIAA Infringement Damages Were Unconstitutional Settles For $756/Song
Date : 19 Aug 2008 TechdirtWe were a bit surprised last month when Denise Barker, who had been fighting the RIAA in a file sharing lawsuit decided to take th read more »
Synergies? Fox News Skips Fox's Own Social Network For Facebook
Date : 18 Aug 2008 TechdirtWhile we do believe that there can be so-called "synergies" in various mergers and acquisitions, it often does seem as though comp read more »