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Obama promises to bolster financial regulation (Reuters)
Date : 18 Dec 2008
Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - President-elect Barack Obama promised on Thursday to strengthen financial regulatory agencies and crack down on runaway read more »
Did You Know Caching Is How Perverts Avoid Downloading?
Date : 18 Dec 2008
TechdirtWe all know that child porn is a terrible problem -- and I have absolutely no problem with severely punishing anyone involved in t read more »
Chrysler plans big cuts but won't quit NASCAR (Reuters)
Date : 18 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Chrysler, which is halting factory operations for at least a month as sales and cash dwindle, will not abandon its invol read more »
Can You Guilt Someone Into Not Pirating Software?
Date : 18 Dec 2008 TechdirtA bunch of folks have been submitting this story about USB Overdrive X's response to anyone who uses a pirated key to use their so read more »
Schapiro, Obama SEC Chief, May Clear Way for Overhaul (Bloomberg)
Date : 18 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessBloomberg - Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Mary Schapiro, a top brokerage regulator tapped to head the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commis read more »
Time For Journalists To Take A Lesson From (Smart) Musicians
Date : 18 Dec 2008 TechdirtThese days there are a few types of stories we see and write about consistently: (1) the legacy recording industry's troubles in a read more »
Schapiro pledges aggressive response (AP)
Date : 18 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - The woman chosen by President-elect Barack Obama to head the Securities and Exchange Commission is calling for an "aggressive read more »
Mortgage rates at 37-year low (AP)
Date : 18 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Rates on 30-year-fixed mortgages dropped this week to their lowest levels in at least 37 years, as the Federal Reserve pledge read more »
Social Networking Sites Still Struggling With The Whole Monetization Thing
Date : 18 Dec 2008 TechdirtThe history of social-networking sites has largely been dominated by two trends: first, no matter how popular a site seems to be a read more »
Borrowers rushing to refinance loans as rates drop (AP)
Date : 18 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Homeowners around the country are scrambling to refinance their mortgages at the lowest rates since the early 1960s as the ec read more »
Obama picks new head of SEC, considers shakeup (Reuters)
Date : 18 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - President-elect Barack Obama was set on Thursday to name seasoned regulator Mary Schapiro to head the Securities and Exc read more »
Scarcity Is A Bad Thing, So Why Would You Want To Artificially Add Scarcity?
Date : 18 Dec 2008 TechdirtIf there were no such thing as scarcity in the world, there wouldn't be a need for property rights, because there would be no bord read more »
Pier 1 posts loss, faces possible delisting (Reuters)
Date : 18 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Home furnishings retailer Pier 1 Imports Inc reported a wider quarterly loss on Thursday on weak customer traffic and s read more »
Wall Street futures mixed (Reuters)
Date : 18 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Stock futures for the Dow Jones industrial average are up 0.6 percent and for the S&P 500 up 0.3 percent; Nasdaq 100 fut read more »
GM and Chrysler reopen merger talks: report (Reuters)
Date : 18 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - General Motors and Chrysler have reopened merger talks, as Chrysler owner Cerberus Capital Management has signaled its w read more »
British retail sales unexpectedly rise in Nov (AP)
Date : 18 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - British retail sales unexpectedly rose in November, official figures showed Thursday, even as government debt hit its highest read more »
Madoff under house arrest (Reuters)
Date : 18 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Disgraced Wall Street investment manager Bernard Madoff, accused of orchestrating a $50 billion fraud, was put under hou read more »
The Real All-Star Action's In The Voting
Date : 18 Dec 2008 TechdirtPro sports' all-star games tend to be pretty tepid affairs, but more and more fans are taking the voting for the games seriously - read more »
Chrysler to idle plants, pressure builds for aid (Reuters)
Date : 18 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Chrysler LLC said on Wednesday that it would halt factory operations for at least a month, putting new pressure on the B read more »
Official: Obama taps Mary Schapiro to head SEC (AP)
Date : 18 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - President-elect Barack Obama has chosen a veteran of the Securities and Exchange Commission to lead and revitalize the agency read more »
North Korea To Get 3G Network... Despite Mobile Phone Ban
Date : 18 Dec 2008 TechdirtYou may recall back in 2004 that North Korea banned all mobile phones following a freakout after news of a train accident started read more »
Things That Won't Get Your Company Through The Recession: Limited, Hard To Use Free VoIP
Date : 17 Dec 2008 TechdirtThe price of voice calling has long been moving towards zero, making the "cheap phone calls" business model a fairly unattractive read more »
Cable Companies Hold Off On Digital Conversion To Avoid Confusion (And Potential Lawsuits)
Date : 17 Dec 2008 TechdirtThere's tremendous confusion out there about February's required switch for broadcast TV from analog to digital. For example, an read more »
Details Emerge On Australian Lawsuit Against ISPs For Failing To Stop Piracy
Date : 17 Dec 2008 TechdirtLast month, we wrote about the lawsuit filed by various movie studios, against Australian ISP iiNet for failing to wave a magic wa read more »
The Difference Between Invention And Innovation In The Netbook Space
Date : 17 Dec 2008 TechdirtBusiness Week's Steve Hamm has a short post talking about the "sudden" success of "netbooks," those mini-laptops that are suddenly read more »